Blog truthers

Inside blog baseball coming up. Skip this post if these things make your eyes roll back into your head. Here’s Jerid at Buckeye State Blog today:

It’s unfortunate, but a lot of questions are arising at this juncture in the Ohio blogosphere about who’s who, what/if folks are paid shills, and if some of the more nefarious bloggers are moonlighting under other identities. Eric raised the question re: Columbuser. While folks that have been to that hack hole know that the guy’s off his track at times, I’m curious about other posters too.

Hmm. That hack hole. It would make a semi-decent subtitle for the blog: Columbuser.com: that hack hole. Except that Jerid’s far more of a hack than I am, in that I actually have good things to say about Democrats from time to time, and criticize Republicans once in a while. I lean libertarian right, but the goal of this blog is not to put a particular party in power, unlike BSB. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but you know, pot, kettle, and the rest of it.

And here’s Eric’s post at Plunderbund which questions my existence that Jerid referred to above. That theory seems to have started on this thread, but they may have been holding on to it for some time.

It is actually possible for several different people to disagree with them simultaneously without coordinating it- or being the same person! As for Matt Naugle, I have no idea if he actually exists or not.

19 comments on “Blog truthers”

  1. Posted by cat dirt | Jun 22, 2007 3:07 pm

    sorry- i can’t really follow the details- but i love this back and forth! more blog rivalry!

  2. Posted by Brian | Jun 22, 2007 3:12 pm

    Ha! I’m glad there’s at least one fan for this sort of thing.

  3. Posted by R. Lee Ermey | Jun 22, 2007 3:47 pm

    Wow - Jerid must be BORED in NH. What kinda high school crap is that anyway? I am not even commenting on the less than imaginative slap they took at you. My blog is better than your blog crap.

    Funny how they (BSB, libs, Hallet, etc) go after Naugle on how “mean and nasty and angry” he is, but then they do the same damn thing. They would be wise to “remove the beam from their eye before they try to remove the speck from their brother’s eye”.

  4. Posted by Jerid | Jun 22, 2007 4:02 pm

    Hack hole is a reference to your reporting. I’m unabashedly democratic. It’s acknowledged. You know what you get - all that jazz.

    You purport to be a moderate, independent, or whatever…however, from watching your site, I’ve seen a beam of criticism solely at the left. Sorry, call it as I see it friend.

  5. Posted by Jerid | Jun 22, 2007 4:04 pm

    Oh by the way. Where’s the “Jerid’s breaking the law” smear on this one? Huh?

  6. Posted by Matt N. | Jun 22, 2007 4:11 pm

    I love it! I start school, move to a new apartment that didn’t have the internet until yesterday, and I’m upgrading RAB today and this weekend. But somehow, I’ve taken a step back from the blogosphere.

    Oh Jerid and his liberal idiot friends wish I would leave- But I ain’t going anywhere.

  7. Posted by Brian | Jun 22, 2007 4:31 pm

    Jerid, I’ve never purported to be a moderate or independent. In this very post I say I lean libertarian right! (But I’m not a member of any party, so in fact I am independent.)

    And for your edification, you can find some examples of criticism of Republicans here, here, and here.

    Good things on Democrats here, here, and here.

  8. Posted by Jerid | Jun 22, 2007 4:45 pm

    Matt,

    Actually - I kinda like having you around.

  9. Posted by redhorse | Jun 22, 2007 5:13 pm

    Actually - I kinda like this blog and really don’t get the animosity. ah well, back to your territorial pissings, the lot of ya.

  10. Posted by Lisa Renee | Jun 22, 2007 5:14 pm

    I agree with redhorse.

    :-)

  11. Posted by Dave Hickman | Jun 22, 2007 5:52 pm

    I agree with Lisa Renee and (pause) OMG, I pretty much agree with Mr. NASCAR Psychobilly for a refreshing change (redhorse)

    Jerid, go hang out with the other little snarky New Hampshire temporaries, especially your fellow frat boys and sorority girls who think they are superior to 40-something fuddie duddies like me and everyone else.

    Are you wearing orange hats like the Deaniac kiddies did in Iowa back in 2004? I seem to remember Dean screaming very loudly after he fell from grace in Iowa back in 2004.

    It is fitting that two 2008 presidential campaigns are shutting you out in New Hampshire Jerid. They recognize lack of substance when they read it on BSB and act accordingly.

    The establishment Democrats who raised funds for you to play around with your “New Hampshire Project” should be ashamed of themselves.

    Hey, you know that I rarely agree with Matt Naugle politically, but man o man I’m hard pressed to find anything truthful by Jerid or Vessels on their sites.

    If that’s what Chris Redfern and Todd Hoffman’s Ohio Democratic Party represents, I’ll have no part of it (shades of Hoffmans Ohio Lie & Earn gambling initiative)

    At least Matt Naugle writes about topics I can comprehend unlike Jerid and Vessels nutcase rants and antics.

    How’s that for a “territorial pissing” redhorse ??

  12. Posted by Jerid | Jun 22, 2007 5:53 pm

    Hickman just said I go on “nutcase rants”?

    OK, “Meg.”

  13. Posted by Dave Hickman | Jun 22, 2007 7:15 pm

    Gosh Jerid, you can’t ban me here… tisk, tisk

    Is this me writing now or is it Tim Russo or someone else? Maybe we should ask Brian to sort this one out. Whadda ya think frat boy?

    Jerid you accuse everyone who disagrees with you on BSB of being me (Dave Hickman). I guess you believe that this gives you justification to censor and ban them while in some way embarrassing me.

    Wrong again. What you have been doing is unjustified and untruthful. It is especially unfair to new people who are unfamiliar with your little vendetta against me. All you’re doing is denying your newest critics the right to express themselves while you’re giving me a ton of recognition.

    Thanks so much Jeri boy. I’m glad you feel so compelled to constantly repeat writing the words “Dave Hickman.”

  14. Posted by Brian | Jun 22, 2007 9:11 pm

    Thanks to those who said they like the site. I aim to keep it up.

    As for the territorial pissings, I know they can get tedious and boring and awful- sorry. But I did try to warn you away.

  15. Posted by redhorse | Jun 23, 2007 1:27 am

    Aww, Dave, I always knew we could come to some type of agreement, and today we have. Remarkably, the earth didn’t render itself from its axis.

    BTW, anytime you’d like to give it a shot, I’ll take you to a race. Until you see/hear/feel what’s it’s about…oh, and learning about it helps too.

    Brian, seriously, good place here.

  16. Posted by Dave Hickman | Jun 23, 2007 7:50 am

    I’m all misty-eyed redhorse. Thanks for the NASCAR offer.

    However, I’m more in-tune with Indy racing. Half of my father’s side of the family are firefighters from Indianapolis who always work the turns and straightaways when cars are zipping around Indianapolis Motor Speedway at speeds approaching 250 mph.

    Although, I root for American drivers, I’d rather see all the international flags flying around Indianapolis Motor Speedway than all the confederate flags that fly around at NASCAR races.

    The whole KKK, confederate, white supremacist image projected by a lot of NASCAR people will likely keep me from ever supporting NASCAR racing.

    If and when NASCAR comes close to eliminating the racist confederate flag from being flown at various racetracks, then I’ll take you to a NASCAR race.

    But, I’ll venture to guess that the odds are against you and I ever being able to attend a NASCAR race that has been completely fumigated for confederate flag flying “PsychoBillies.”

  17. Posted by redhorse | Jun 23, 2007 10:32 am

    Indy, eh? Well, at least we both appreciate fast cars.

  18. Posted by Jerid | Jun 23, 2007 8:31 pm

    Dave,

    I have the evidence that you are everyperson I ban. I don’t post it because you’re not worth it, and I feel kinda bad for you in a “oh my, gramps forgot to take his meds and now he’s a little nutty” sort of way.

    No one is anonymous on the internet bud.

  19. Posted by Dave Hickman | Jun 25, 2007 3:54 pm

    I thought it was obvious that I ain’t your “bud” Jerid.

    You’re lying as usual. Just like when you first accused someone of being me then you switched to say it was Tim Russo… which one was it? Or was it someone else??

    I’m not saying that I’ve never created an anonymous account on the BS blog. However, I am saying that not every new person who criticizes you is me. You’ve banned quite a few people because you assumed it was me when it wasn’t.

    Thus, your so-called “evidence” is faulty to a certain degree and your words about me are false nearly all of the time. Do you have “evidence” to “back up” the slander you spew about me on the BS blog ??

    Who gave you the right to personally attack and slander all sorts of people on the BS blog then either censor or ban them as soon as they try to reply to your attacks?

    I call this the BS blog “Slam and Ban” game. You initiate this childish game far too often so you and all your frat boy buddies can yuk it up. What you don’t account for are the enemies and resentment that you are creating, even if others can’t read about it because you and other BS bloggers scrub your blog and refuse to allow anyone to express their disdain for your underhanded tactics.

    You are addicted… seek help soon!! I ain’t on meds, but like everyone (depending on who you talk to) I may be considered a little “nutty” on the blogs. To this I say “so what.” You sure as heck don’t set the example for rational blogging and thus you have no room to talk.

    Trust me that I could come up with a long list of people who think you and your BS blog bashers are plenty “nutty” and plenty juvenile as well. Like I said earlier, it all depends on who you talk to.

    Who’s voices do you hear inside your lawyer wannabe head Jeri boy? I bet they are chattering to you quite a bit as you play around up in New Hampshire trying to figure out whether you’re a journalist or not.

    Well, Jeri boy… I majored in Journalism at OSU and in my humble opinion, you ain’t no journalist. You’re an establishment Democratic Party HACK !!

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