Gatekeeper Chimp? - Say it isn't true...

[reprehensor]

http://totallyfixed.blogspot.com/2006/12/gatekeeper-chimp-say-it-isnt-true.html

"Here I was, all excited.

I had just cross-posted my first "real" article, American Thinker says 9/11 skepticism "extremely dangerous" on SmirkingChimp.com and saw it get lots of views (700+) and good votes and positive comments and spend some time in the "most emailed" list and then suddenly... comments and votes were suddenly shut down. (Before I could get the ten votes required to be on the "most recommended" list.)

My commentary was in reaction to an article in American Thinker that essentially suggested that 9/11 skeptics were a dangerous and potentially treasonous lot, sapping the martial spirit of our nation's youth with theories of sinister government activities.

I thought it was a good article, and so did many others, and it was not profane or venomous or deigning to claim anything in particular about 9/11 other than that the "official" investigation was, in my opinion, completely inadequate.

So... I wrote to Jeff "Smirky" Tiedrich, chimp-in-chief, and asked him why this shutdown had occurred..."

Continued...
http://totallyfixed.blogspot.com/2006/12/gatekeeper-chimp-say-it-isnt-true.html

[Bolo Boffin]

1. This happened December 10th, almost two months ago.

Time to call the WHAAAAAAAAAMbulance.

No, wait, Positronic Dave seems to have survived with his publishing abilities intact at his blogspot.

Time to get over yourself.

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Well thank goodness it wasn't inadvertantly posted to LBN.

Good catch on the date there Bolo. Shows you know what day it is and can read what day the blog was posted. Beyond that, who cares?

If you need the whaambulece, go ahead and call 'em, but I'm not paying for it.

[JackRiddler]

3. the emphasis on the perpetually new

is part of the problem, not the solution. Otherwise we wouldn't have all these people bitching about a war who no longer remember how it started (hey, that's old news). If he worked a real story into a screenplay or a novel it might be years before it was aired or published. The nub even on the perpetual motion machine of the Internet is whether something's worth telling, not whether it's "news."

[PositronicDave]

4. FYI - I didn't publish this...

People generally enjoyed my back-and-forth with the Smirkster, but I haven't promoted that article in quite a while.

I do have a new article though, which I'm happy and eager to share, about George Bush's speech describing the escalation he's engaging in vis a vis Iraq.

It's called: Whacking the Pinata: A Citizen's Response to Bush's Escalation Speech.

Available online at: http://totallyfixed.blogspot.com/2007/01/whacking-pinata-citizens-response-to.html

Here I break down his speech line-by-line and take each of his assertions on and smack them around a bit.

I'd be delighted to get DU members' feedback on my critique. The reaction so far has been pretty positive.

I know it's a couple of weeks old... but the actual movement of troops has barely been started and I agree with the gentleman's point below that while "new" is three quarters of "news", it's not the whole thing, and as DU members most surely know, most of the best stuff quickly gets swept under the rug, only to be rediscovered later, if at all.

Thanks for the comments. I appreciate the attention my Blog has received from the DU community.

Be well,

David Caputo