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I came across this little item from the Kansas City Star’s Prime Buzz “BlogWatch”:
And then noted the original post (If you want to go see the original, go the Kansas City Star site above. I’m not going to directly link to that republican crap):
It’s the Democratic Party. The Kansas City Star understands that. Heh.
All us anonymous (and not so anonymous) Democratic bloggers need to grow up. How amusing. Until the republicans overcome their severe irony impairment (among a host of other weaknesses) they will continue to be a regional political party. Heh.
Oh. You may have noticed the editorial convention of the smalll “r”. I’ve been using that since I wrote for the Dean for America Forum starting in 2003. When a republican troll complained at the time I answered, “They’ll get their capital “R” from me when they earn it.”
As for anonymity, republicans seem to think that in their fantasy rose colored world only those who can afford to not worry about losing their livelihood because they expressed a political opinion or those who can afford the extra security needed when psychotic right wingnut stalkers are afoot should be allowed freedom of speech.
Welcome to America.
If scribbling political rhetoric pseudonymously was good enough for the Founders, it’s good enough for me.
Yesterday, my Dentist’s office manager indicated that she recognized my name from a letter to a rather conservative local publication, and asked my husband if I had received any negative attention. She told him about an acquaintance of hers who wrote what was, according to the office manager, a very “centrist” letter that was published in the same publication, and who received an anonymous threatening letter in response.
I can only say that I am not embarrassed by anything I have written here–and I do, after all write to local papers under my full name. I am glad, however, that I do not need to open myself up regularly to mean-minded and vicious characters who are willing to threaten and harass those with whom they disagree.
An additional throught: Unlike the usual threatening letter or phone call, if there is any serious contention about anything written on this blog–and most blogs,I think–the identify of the writer could probably be easily determined if necessary since those who post diaries are registered users, who at least have to record a valid email address, right?
wading thrugh rightwing blogs, it does strike me from my dabbling that lots do make use of pseudonyms or pen-names, and probably for the same reason.
That doesn’t bug me at all, especially as compared to weird, inconsistent pseudonyms you find on Political Fix, Arch City Chronicle, and PubDef. There you find comments like “I’m worried by Slay’s reaction to Sherman George” etc. and the comment is attributed to “worried”. Then you’ll see a similar comment on another blog, or again on the same blog, and it’s attributed to “saynotoslay.”
I don’t know if this is just one commenter or a common practice among readers of those sites, but I find it very strange.