The loopy huckster at Hillbuzz.org is attempting to shake down the simple-minded cranks who read his blog for donations by pretending to be the target of a vast leftwing conspiracy. Since he’s using little ol’ me (among others) as a boogie(wo)man to scare up donations, I thought I‘d respond here for any delusional Hilldos or train-wreck rubberneckers who drop by to have a look around.
[If you don’t know what I’m talking about, do yourself a favor and go read War and Peace or something instead of this long-ass post. It’s about the dumbest controversy in the history of the internet, and that’s saying something. You’ve been warned!]
Anyway, it appears one of the Hillbuzzard nutsacks (if indeed there are more than one – “they” generally employ the royal “we,” but maybe it’s a multiple personality disorder thing…) was targeted by an obscure blogger (BigotBasher) who looked up publicly available whois data on Hillbuzz.org and published the personal information it contained on his obscure blog, along with accusations that the Hillbuzzard dude is a racist and a GOP ratfucker.
Although whois data is freely available, I don’t approve of “outing” people who blog pseudonymously and have neither done so nor tolerated anyone else doing so on any blog over which I have administrative control. I have zero connection with this BigotBasher guy, aside from the fact that he has commented on some blogs I write for and / or comment on. That’s it.
Vast leftwing conspiracy or the fevered imagination of a pearl clutching drama queen?
But on the strength of that flimsy connection, the Hillbuzzard dude has concocted and continues to embellish an absurd conspiracy theory, claiming that I (and other people whose “connection” to BigotBasher is as tangential as mine) are all part of an organized global plot to defame him. Here’s an excerpt from a breathless broadside published shortly after the whole mess broke out earlier this week:
Almost IMMEDIATELY after BigotBasher launched his attack on us, that post was picked up by The Daily Kos and DemocraticUnderground. A host of other Leftist, Obama-supporting sites followed suit, repeating TheBigotBasher story as fact.
Actually, it looks like what happened was that BigotBasher published the same diatribe he published on his own blog to diaries he maintains at DailyKos and DU – diaries that anyone with a computer connection can set up. For free. Without personally knowing Markos Moulitsas.
BigotBasher got very little traffic on it until the Hillbuzzard frootloop started bellowing like ruptured cow about the incident. Google it yourself and see if it looks anything like BigotBasher’s post was “distributed to millions of people” as the Hillbuzzard claims prior to his own efforts to publicize it.
Anyhoo, as the week went by, the Hillbuzzard published ever-loopier claims that the Leftist web he imagines goes all the way up to the DNC and Obama himself. He offers no evidence of this, nor of the claims that he’s been harassed and threatened aside from insults and personal info published by a single, obscure blogger.
Hilldos engage in the behavior they decry against innocent bystandersWhy do I care what this deranged loon says? Well, I don’t really, despite the fact that he has repeatedly encouraged his equally nutty readers to scour the internet for clues to my real name and personal information. But by using the “vast leftwing conspiracy” angle as bait, the Hillbuzzard has garnered attention for his outlandish claims from some irresponsible, high-profile wingnuts (including Glenn Reynolds, among others).
Apparently my humble little blog was mentioned and displayed briefly on Breitbart TV today, along with speculation about my obsession with casseroles! Honest to god, these people’s brains are as fried as Durkee French Onion bits left too long in a 450-degree oven.
The whole thing is pretty funny, really, except for one thing. In the numerous, interminable sob-story posts he’s put up on this topic to generate donations and sympathy, the Hillbuzzard whines about the unfairness of being outed online and decries the hideous consequences of said outing – including alleged loss of employment and even being dumped by a boyfriend who ran away in panic at the specter of the Leftist Horde arrayed against the ‘Buzzard. But even as he publicly sobs about his own fate, he encourages the most irresponsible speculation and allows his commenters to publish personal information about completely innocent bystanders.
For example, one of the geniuses in his comments section leapt to the conclusion that since I use the internet handle “Betty Cracker,” I must be the owner of the bettycracker.com domain name. Well, I’m not. But that didn’t stop the fool from publishing the name, address, business site, etc., of the poor dude who actually
does own that domain name (to advertise a band that went by that name, from what I can gather).
One of the commenters suggested visiting this totally innocent bystander with a baseball bat. Now, I’m pretty sure that cowardly bunch of blowhards wouldn’t follow through on such a threat – they’d scatter at the sight of a broom-wielding kindergartner, I bet. But still, given the level of derangement on display among the Hilldos, it’s irresponsible as hell to encourage them.
And it’s hypocritical as hell for the person who is presiding over it all to wallow in self pity (and collect donations) for the consequences of his own outing and the alleged threats he's endured (for which he offers no evidence) while simultaneously encouraging the drooling morons who infest his comments section to post information on uninvolved people and tolerate threats against them
right on his own blog. I don’t know whether or not the Hillbuzzard is a racist. But he’s definitely a feckless jerk. And anyone who helps him peddle his foolish story is an irresponsible ass.