Capitol Hill Blue Completely Melts Down
An amusing meltdown from Doug Thompson today.
He's completely blown his cool under very slight pressure, demonstrating for all the world to see that he's not a serious journalist at all, but just another ranting blogger like the rest of us.
Let's check the series of events here:
1. Doug posts false information about Ron Paul's fundraising he cribbed from freemarketnews.com.
2. When the rumor he linked to and ranted about turns out to be false, he blames the Paul campaign, even though he has not and can not produce evidence that freemarketnews.com's rumor started with the campaign.
3. When people call and write him to complain, he deletes their posts and their emails and whines about it on his blog.
4. He then decides that complaint calls to a so-called journalist are somehow criminal, so he trots out the truly lamest internet whine of all - the good old "I've called the FBI and they will stop you from making me sad!" card. What a loser. What's next? Blog posts telling us how he doesn't have to listen to Paul supporters because he has a "great car" and a "hot girlfriend"? Grow up, dork.
I guess that's pretty much par for the course. You could almost write a book at this point about the stages a Ron Paul hater will go through. It's almost always the same.
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posted by fluffyunbound @ 9:36 AM
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2 Comments:
LOL! What a douchebag! Some people just have really thin skins.
Doug Thompson and CHB have zero credibility and any blogger that ever quotes anything they say, whether a story or even a subsequent retraction risks being tainted by the association. This particular story is not unique. Thompson frequently apologizes for, corrects, or simply "disappears" stories he presents at CHB as facts, usually blaming co-workers or untraceable sources. Eric at Classical Values did a great series on Doug Thompson and CHB a year ago, concluding:
"I'm getting a bit tired of Capitol Hill Blue. It's an unreliable web site which I'd never read before July 16, and I think it's staffed by sock puppets... is it possible that reasonable people might be able to agree that regardless of who or what it is, or how, or why it originated, Capitol Hill Blue has been so thoroughly discredited, that it should not be relied on by anyone, anywhere, ever again?"
It is a great and amusing read. I am speaking from experience, as I quoted DT in a blog post where he claims that GWB said the Constitution was "A god damn piece of paper" in a meeting. CHB has subsequently retracted, "disappeared", and restored that story on their site. I corrected my piece but left it out there with the correction and links to Eric's story as a cautionary tale for other bloggers.
CHB is a very odd duck, made worse by their claims to be a journalistic site and purporting to hold themselves to a higher journalistic standard than a blog.
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