Reply #16: "Transparency" is my "shtick"?

[BradBlog]

I watched your ad hominem attack on Phil Klinkner after he dared to cross you on the "staggeringly impossible" 2005 Ohio election, so I'm familiar with the MO.

Would you like to share that? Or is just making the claim enough for ya? For the record, I stand by everything I've written (and which I also have the courage to put my name on.) Do you?

And why is it that in all of the places you write, you don't have the decency or courage to actually make it clear who you are and what you do?

You're not going to support the pile of crap you dumped on me here. You can't, because it's wildly untrue. And you don't have to, because you're BradBlog.

Actually, I have a long record (paper, audio, video, etc.) of challenging folks to challenge me if they feel I've reported something that is not independently verifiable, as I try to do with anything I officially cover. (Even while asking folks to challenge NYTimes, WaPo, AP, etc. to do same.)

I think that's in the best interest of democracy, and our country. So why don't you do the same?

And what is it that "pile of crap" you claim I will not "support"? Or is the slur, as usual, all you feel obligated to make from behind your pseudonym?

You may well have convinced yourself that paying for a full recount would have "helped (Obama) immeasurably." Hey, look what it did for Kucinich!* And you may have convinced yourself that it was tremendously important, even as you trumpet the chain-of-custody flaws. But these arguments don't make much sense on their own, so it's little wonder that you resort to performance art.

*(ETA) Oops, right, Kucinich didn't actually get the full recount. Maybe that was his mistake?

Actually, it was, and he should have. And yeah, it brought him a great deal of support and funding. So I'm sorry if I miss your point. But then again, I guess those "shy Republican voters" in 2004 did as well, eh?

Oh, by the way, for a different take on my role here, you might compare notes with a friend. I don't know if I got that right, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

You feel that a courteous thank you from an actual election integrity advocate -- one who has the courage to use his name when he goes on record, btw -- somehow excuses your obnoxious behavior here, at Daily Kos, and in the "official" public arena?

You keep apologizing for the shitty state of our electoral system, it's utter lack of transparency (from behind your various pseudonyms) and I'll keep fighting for the opposite. K?