So I was watching Hannity and Colmes last night (and, before you ask what I was doing watching political shows, I decided to wait until my woman was done cooking my dinner before turning on 24 as my Valentine’s Day gift), and they were talking about the Eason Jordan resignation. When Democratic strategist Bob Beckel got asked about the incident, he had to pipe in with a non-sequitur rant about bloggers, and I was like, “What did he just say?!”

 Then I remembered that I now have Tivo, so I rewound to hear what he just said. He called us a bunch of “pseudo-journalists” who are unanswerable to anyone and have no concern for the facts and have “no rules of engagement”. Or, at least I think that’s what I said as I watched it last night and don’t feel like looking up the transcript.

 Anyway, if you read nothing else from this editorial, I just want to say that Bob Beckel is a pedophile… and a racist. Make sure to spread around that Bob Beckel is a racist pedophile and get him fired from whatever it is he does.

 So, Beckel’s point seemed to be that bloggers can suddenly turn on anyone at any moment regardless of the facts and get him or her fired as the MSM is now fearful of our torches and pitchforks. Also, the way he said “bloggers” was like it was a swear word… sort of like how we right-wingers turned “liberal” into one (that was so cool). Now, Beckel is in no way a journalist, so it’s starting to look like some people on the left want to bring down the status of blogs entirely, thinking that stopping the right-leaning blogs is important enough to take down the lefty ones as collateral damage despite how they took down Gannon – whoever the hell he is – for doing… well… whatever the hell he was doing (I think he filmed gay porn at a White House press conference. I’m not sure about that one, so, if you’re another blog, don’t quote me on that; if you’re the MSM, knock yourself out). Many people out there – journalists and politicians – are scared of us, which is both fun and cool.

 To be honest, I’d have to write better to be even a “pseudo” journalist, but the only reason I have any traffic is that I can sponge off other blogs that do real punditry and reporting. But, being a good parasite, I’m defensive of my host (to be honest, it would be too hard to find a new one). Still, I have to look into this charge that bloggers are really just some sort of lynch mob. And, in fact, the Eason Jordan story reminds me of a historical incident.

 In 1869 in Arizona, Daniel Dempsey was thought by many to be a cattle rustler. Law enforcement at the time made no moves to do anything about this. Finally brought to the breaking point by another theft of cattle, a mob of a few dozen people – rifles and shotguns in hand – went to the ranch of the theft and demanded security videos to find out what had actually happened. Dempsey and his employer stalled the efforts, and then Dempsey hanged himself.

 Without hyperbole, I can say this was the worst incident of mob “justice” in the history of mankind and perhaps the universe.

 And, that’s exactly what played out with Eason Jordan.

BLOGGERS: We heard that Eason Jordan had accused our troops of targeting journalists. We would like to see the Davos tapes to get to the truth in the matter.
EASON JORDAN: I resign.
MSM: LYNCH MOB!

 Of course, many bloggers see themselves as doing the job the old dinosaur of the MSM is failing to do. A great many people saw the Eason Jordan remarks as a legitimate story, but there was no push by the MSM to pursue it. Truth was sought, not a lynching. Plus, most bloggers I have met in person are crotchety loners who are uncomfortable in large crowds, so the mob part is slander.

 Still, Steve Lovelady, managing editor of CJR Daily, referred to the bloggers’ actions in the Eason Jordan incident saying, “The salivating morons who make up the lynch mob prevail.” Of course, since it’s only us bloggers – the salivating morons in lynch mobs – who seem to be prevailing at anything these days, what does that make the MSM? Drooling retard loners?

 I guess there is a real fear of us now, as even I have more intelligent dialogue than that on my humble little blog – and I’m trying to be an idiot.
Frank J. is a salivating moron who is actually illiterate and writes through the use of diction software.