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June 24, 2006

Blog Wars III: Revenge of the Popcorn Eaters

by AltHippo @ 5:31 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

I love the smell of napalm in the blogosphere. (I don’t really. It’s just that someone had to say it.)

If you haven’t been following the latest, here’s the beef:

1.) A group of blogtopia (thanks, Skippy!) big-hitters form a mailing list called “Townhouse.” My invitation seems to have been lost in the mail.
2.) Jerome Armstrong pleads to a 2000 SEC violation. Financial settlement still in litigation. In a private mail, leaked to the New Republic, Kos says to the bloggers: “My request to you guys is that you ignore this for now. It would make my life easier if we can confine the story. ”

That rubbed me the wrong way, as did the leak of Kos’s email (see here). But, I figured, time to drop it and work on this very interesting blog post I’ve got that proves conclusively that the disciple pictured in The Last Supper was actually Dick Cheney. Working title: The Shooter Code. Interesting stuff.

But, wait, there’s more.

3.) At the New Republic Jason Leopold, I mean, Zengerle, leaks a couple of the Townhousegate emails including this from Steve Gilliard: “I dont see how this can be ignored. We should all write in defense of this once we know the facts. Jerome?”
4.) Glenn Greenwald points out that this email was never sent out on the Townhousegate list.
5.) The Commissar points out that Gilliard says he may have sent an email like that, a month earlier, but not on Townhouse. Then again, he may not have. Commissar also coins the term “omerta email” for the original Kos message, which amuses me.
6.) The Kossiaks get their digs in against TNR. Choice excerpt: “Not right-wing, then, but neither can they be counted on as progressive, and more important, nor can they be counted on at all. A punditocracy that alternates between dismissive and aggressively hostile of the grassroots, of activists, and of voters (at least, when they use electrons in a fashion other than what God and the New Republic intended) is not one that the grassroots, activists, or voters particularly need to value the opinions of.”
7.) Meanwhile, TNR shoots back, just below the beltway: “It feels a bit demeaning to defend oneself against Kos. But I am one of the neo-con owners, and I am titular editor-in-chief. ”
8.) ???
9.) Profit.

Update: Zengerle has some ’splaining to do after Glenn gets email from Steve Gilliard (after the jump)

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EMAIL # 1:

I can’t find any such words for June 18 either.

I sent three e-mails to townhouse on that day and NONE of them have those words. At least, he’s innacurate about his sourcing.

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E-MAIL # 2:

I just checked my name and Jerome Armstrong with gmail searchand I said nothing
about him on the 18th at ALL. So where do we go from here?

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EMAIL # 3:

I can’t find anything for that on the 18th or 19th at all. I do not find any e-mail using that phrase referring to Jerome Armstrong in June 2006, until this e-mail [the one I wrote in which I re-printed Zengarle’s post].

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