Sunday, August 19, 2007
Bloggy censorship, Brian Lemon style.
Awwwwwww ... that's so cute ... Blogging Tory and utter douchebag Brian Lemon deleted the two comments I left yesterday on this post which, if they hadn't been unceremoniously tossed, would have appeared between nomdeblog's and zorph's submissions.
And what kind of unspeakable, trolly ghoulishness could your humble scribe have written that would have driven poor, sensitive Mr. Lemon into such a paroxysm of anti-free speechitude? I'm so glad you asked.
In the first comment, I took issue with all of the swooning, complimentary fawning over his principles by taking Brian to task for apologizing for MaryT when it was MaryT who should have been doing the apologizing, and suggesting that MaryT grow up and take responsibility for her own writing since that's sort of what "accountability" and "personal responsibility" means, at least the way conservatives whine about it annoyingly all day long.
I followed that up by pointing out that, if Brian wanted to be taken seriously, he might at least have spelled Brison's name correctly ("Brison," not "Bryson").
Lo and behold, both of those comments disappear down the memory hole, but not before Brian quietly fixes that spelling fuck-up to not look like such a dickhead.
Thanks, Brian. I too make it a habit of reading comments, realizing that they have a point, acting on their content, then contemptuously pretending that they never existed.
I'd refer to Brian as an "asshole," but that would be an unforgivable slight to anal orifices everywhere.
P.S. And to those progressive commenters who ended up gushing nauseatingly over Brian's apparent principles, are you sure you can't find a Canadian wank even more reprehensible to suck up to? I mean, I hear Kate McMillan's always got room in her stable for another cabana boy.
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And to those progressive commenters who ended up gushing nauseatingly over Brian's apparent principles, are you sure you can't find a Canadian wank even more reprehensible to suck up to?
C'mon...every once in a while, you have to jump at the opportunity to show some charity to these people or you risk you losing your humanity.
I have to say, Stageleft's suck-up was over the top. I'd never put that blog on a blogroll because it's simply not worth reading; if someone writes something incredible, then that person loses credibility. The world is too complicated to waste time on those who have no credibility.
Standards of excellence or at least good practice, please!
Oh byte me CC, when the dawgy doesn't pee on the floor, you give them praise, so deal.
~zorpheous rolls his eyes~
You have a point there, Zorph. However, are you willing to revise your opinion now that you know that Brian will happily retain comments that slather praise all over him while still deleting those that raise perfectly valid (and, dare I say it, relatively polite and diplomatic) objections to his postings?
Or does Brian still get a free pass to pee on the floor some of the time?
Well, your extra input on the matter does show that he still doesn't extercise the best of form. I have been suject of his deletion/editting before as well.
So on the MaryT wankery I give him 8 out ten, on deleting comments 3 out 10,... so 5.5 out 10 is average,... still kind of good for Brian all in all ;-)
That being said, were you acting like a complete wanker CC? After all, we do know that you don't tend pull your punches, have at'em, let fly and let loose the dawgies of war and all that,.. ;-)
As hard as it may be to believe, Zorph, I was uncharacteristically restrained just so that Brian couldn't arbitrarily dismiss my comments for being rude or vulgar or profane or whatever. Yet he did, anyway, for no other reason than that they criticized him. (As I mentioned earlier, he even deleted the comment that chided him for misspelling Scott Brison's name. Seriously, how infantile do you have to be to remove a comment like that?)
Really, these people are the most pathetic group of pissy little whiners in existence. If I'd been smart, I'd have kept copies of the comments just so you folks could judge for yourselves.
And on that MaryT wankery, he gets a -2 out of 10. Why that is will be the subject of an upcoming post here.
By the way, Zorph, it might be amusing for one of Brian's recent admirers to point-blank ask him why he deleted my comments, and hold his feet to the fire until he provides a credible answer.
You'll notice that that worthless little putz has the following comments policy:
Trolls (you know who you are) are not permitted to comment on this site and any trash will be removed immediately without explanation.
Except that you know as well as I do that the word "troll" has a very unambiguous definition in the blogosphere -- someone who incessantly fills someone else's comments section to the point of being annoying, if not downright disruptive.
However, my regular readers are well aware that I hardly ever leave comments on the sites that I criticize, so Brian's comments policy can't possibly be relevant for me. And I'm certainly never going to waste any more time or bandwidth leaving a comment for that childish little fuck ever again.
So, go wild, Zorph. See if he has a good excuse for basking in the praise of the Left-o-sphere when it suits him, while making sure critical comments that raise actual issues are stuffed down the memory hole.
It should be amusing to watch the weaseling and tap dancing.
Not worth the effort CC, Brian can be a wanker when it comes to "editting" comments, as I stated before, he called me a troll once before when I hammered him with the truth about that "19,000 Scientist Against Gobal Warming" bs months ago.
Look CC, Brian did the right thing about MaryT's bs post on Brison, maybe he could have handled it in better ~shrug~ Deleting comments is very bad form and he knows it, yet pointing it out to him will get me deleted as well. You can't win CC
Zorph writes:
"Deleting comments is very bad form and he knows it, yet pointing it out to him will get me deleted as well."
Ah, but Zorpheous, my little cupcake, there's a simple solution to that. Post a comment complaining about Brian's wankery. If he deletes it, then you can exercise your right to go back and delete your own comment in which you praised his earlier behaviour.
Simple, n'est-ce pas? If Brian won't accept your critical comments, you should revoke his right to display your complimentary ones.
And, yes, I do have a suitably evil response to wankery of all sorts. Why do you ask?
Did you read my earlier post pn being "Crazy f@#king busy, but this is just plain stupid." Like I have time for playing wanker games with Brian. Today I have three rebuilds, one server to image, and a main App DB to install an upgrade patch on on a clients test database for evaluation. And starting on Monday I am at a conference 8 to 4:30 Mon to Fri,... and to top it off I have a freaking eye infection, I'll put Brian on my tado list, m'kay? ;-)
Oh, yeah. Maybe MaryT should heed your demand for an apology.
After all, your apology to Wanda Watkins was so eloquent and touching...
Oh, sweet Jeebus ... here come the obnoxious twits from the kiddies' table.
Mr. Ross, how I dealt with Ms. Watkins has nothing whatsoever to do with that classless hack MaryT.
As most sentient beings will have realized by now (that categorization obviously omitting Mr. Ross), there was a moderately clear apology for Mary's earlier, ignorant, bigoted rant. My objection is that it was not delivered by Mary herself, and that she got off easy by not having to take responsibility for her own words.
Now, how many people are way too fucking stupid to understand the point I'm addressing here? Come on, hands up.
One.
Go figure.
Fair enough. Where's the apology for your ignorant, bigoted rants?
...*crickets chirping*...
That's what I thought. But if you ever decide you want to live up to the demands you want to make of others, I'm sure a few people will be more than willing to make a long list of people you owe apologies to.
Just fer you, Paddy me boy, heh nobody here 'cept us crickets...
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So I suppose that's the "we know you are, but what are we" response, huh? Fair enough.
After all, if there's anything I know with absolute certainty, it's that you can't talk sense to people who know they're hypocrites, and are comfortable with that.
After all, if there's anything I know with absolute certainty, it's that you can't talk sense to people who know they're hypocrites, and are comfortable with that.
And this is different from "I know you are, but what am I?" exactly how?
Good luck on the debating team this year.
Sheesh. To be fair, I don't read anything in Lemon's post as an apology for maryT's. To the extent that it was an apology, I read it as regret that the offending post appeared on his blog - that is, an apology for his own negligence.
He deleted the post without pretending it had never happened, and included some faint-but-likely-sincere nice words for Brison. I thought that was a classy way to handle it and said so.
This doesn't excuse subsequently deleting your comments, or keeping maryT around as a contributor. It certainly doesn't rehabilitate Lemon's own shortcomings in other posts. However, given that I'd left a mocking comment to the original post, I didn't see the great harm in saying something nice about the retraction.
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