I finally made the big time!
Posted by BrianI have the honor of being mentioned, albeit indirectly and inaccurately, on the world renowned Locust Fork blog. This is a great day indeed! I hope my server can handle the expected deluge of traffic as his many readers find their way to my blog (Wilson didn’t link directly, but I know his highly intelligent readers must be proficient with Google).
Meanwhile, there are other Alabama bloggers who are still relying on the Newhouse press view of the world who still can’t get their heads around the FACT that the Bush White House, including disgraced former political aide Karl Rove, manipulated justice for political reasons - even in little old Alabama.
One of the biggest dumbasses of them all has now even questioned the sanity of Roger Shuler, who was fired from his job of 19 years at UAB for blogging about the conflict of interest and incompetence of U.S. Attorney Alice Martin and the Siegelman case.
One of these bloggers, an Auburn engineer, likes to think he is some kind of an authority on blogging. Along with his little friend GOP girl - better known as Flip by her former colleagues at Auburn where she failed to get tenure and doesn’t even teach anymore - they pollute the discussion of substantive issues in this state and waste bandwidth in their attempt to be somebody, even as they mostly blog under anonymous identities and hide from real information.
In the true tradition of the First Amendment, bloggers such as Roger Shuler and myself are trying to get good information out to the good people of Alabama - as well as inform people around the country and the world - about a series of serious injustices that are taking place here.
They would rather call people crazy and attack the credibility of credentialed journalists than to do the heavy reading to find out what’s really going on in the world outside the Heart of Dixie.
I must say, being called a dumbass by the likes of Glynn Wilson warms my heart.
Glynn “Gooddamn you Christian Republicans” Wilson is an interesting study (my apologies for the coarse language). He runs a left wing propaganda site under the rouse of being Alabama’s most credentialed journalist. He infrequently ventures forth into the world beyond his doorstep to condemn virtually all Alabama blogs as being anonymously operated (usually incorrectly, I might add). He has even been observed doing this through comments left under a false name (see the comments in the Daily Dixie link below). A true paragon of integrity!
Wilson is best known for giving us Jill Simpson, the woman who claims to be Karl Rove’s personal spy. That should tell you a great deal about his credibility.
To comment directly on Wilson’s post, though:
- I do not know, much less am I friends with, a GOP girl or Flip.
- Dan at Daily Dixie is the Alabama blogger who authored the post about Roger Shuler.
- I don’t consider myself to be any kind of an “authority on blogging.” I’ve been over this before. One might have thought that Wilson’s well honed investigative journalist skills would have been able to realize that.
- I am an Auburn engineering graduate, though how that is germane to the conversation is a bit unclear.
- Wilson specified that two people, me and this GOP girl, pollute the discussion of substantive issues. Maybe, that is a personal opinion. I have my own thoughts on Wilson’s “work.” He goes on to say in the same sentence, referring only to me and another person, that “they mostly blog under anonymous identities.” Not true. “They” implies both people when only only two people are the subject of the sentence. I have always blogged under my real name. Any comments I leave elsewhere always include a link back to my site. In other words it is the exact opposite of anonymous.
Update: After I pointed out a typo in one of his posts (he suggested some individuals were on the political “doll” instead of “dole”) Glynn deleted my comment and banned me from his site. What a shame! It’s kind of like being banned in Red China.
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August 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
That Locust Fork guy is a nutcase. A friend in Birmingham had the misfortune of sitting next to him at some kind of event (can’t remember the exact circumstances), and Wilson regaled her with tales of his journalistic exploits, explained how every other blogger in the state is an idiot, and also gave her some cock and bull story about being a professor at some college. His tales - and interest in her - faded immediately when her husband showed up and introduced himself. She calls him the “blogger lounge lizard.”
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 am
I have visited the Locust Fork Journal a few times. It ain’t worth the grease I have to wipe off my monitor afterwards!
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 am
Liberals are quite proficient at making victim claims and reporting things that are “the exact opposite” of what is the truth. I think they do this to take the air out of us pointing out the truth, devalue the substance of the topic and divert attention elsewhere.
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
There is an old saying that if you want to get a true measure of a man, look not at his friends but rather look at his enemies - that sais having Wilson as an enemy raises your measure considerably
August 4th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Back of the class for you, Auburn boy! Tuck your tail and run like your friend Dan the Republican stooge!
You are now known as “Flameoutpoint”. Leave the bandwidth to the big boys!
August 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Glynn, let me know when you manage to move out of your mom’s basement. Then we’ll talk about who the big boy is.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:35 am
So how much money are Riley and Rove paying you? Or are you just one of Turd Blossom’s special “pals”
People need good info and uncredentialed pretenders like you just keep them in the cave. You are part of the Big Lie.
Shame on you
August 5th, 2008 at 6:54 am
I wish one of those individuals you listed would pay me something. This site is my hobby and (as of now) I have never accepted advertising dollars or any other payment. I guess nothing is still probably more than the Locust Fork propaganda site pulls in.
I would love to know what your credentials are, Glynn. Just list them out in bullet form, right here, for all to marvel at. Show us what a real journalist you are.
August 5th, 2008 at 8:20 am
http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/06/21/the-karl-rove-bob-riley-conspiracy/
So you and Rove think you can take me down. I can call CBS and get any story on the air in minutes. Here is proof of your conspiracy against legitimate journalism in this state. Is that the best you can do?
August 5th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
If you look at Glynn’s site you will see all the proof you need about his credentials. A real Auburn professor (Judith Sheppard in the Department of Communications knows and the lauds value of Glynn’s work and has invited him to speak to her class.
The fact that Glynn commands such academic attention (for a 2 day seminar too)and honorarium should be proof enough to you that he is considered a fellow professor by legitimate respected credentialed journalists.
If you would have gone to the right department at Auburn you too might have received a real education.