They really crossed a line this time, though. They are no longer just attacking the entity that is “HillBuzzâ€, but those at the Daily Kos, DemocraticUnderground, Moveon.org and other George Soros, DNC-backed troll mills have ratcheted up their attacks to the personal level. Unlike Michelle Malkin, Erik Erikson over at Red State, or even people like Nikke Finke at DeadlineHollywood or Harry Knowles at AintItCoolNews, we’ve maintained this site anonymously because we wanted to have personal lives apart from writing original content on the Internets. 99% of you have respected this convention, and have allowed us to just be the “HillBuzz boysâ€, or other variations on whatever you call us. That’s allowed us to be both Batman and Bruce Wayne, which means we can still have jobs, go out and have fun, and enjoy life while spending half our time each day working our hearts out for our love of country in service of whatever we can do to defeat Liberals and stop socialism from taking over this nation.
But, the Kossacks and Moveon.organisms have decided to attack us on the personal, not just the site, level. They are using some of our real names, urging their members to do us personal and physical harm in our real lives, and calling us racists over and over again in the hopes of making us unemployable in the future — because they’ve libeled us by calling us RAAACISTS! on that personal level.
And, you know what, this tactic does have an immediate psychological and financial impact. This weekend, after these attacks from the Kossacks and Moveon.organism began, we lost two freelance jobs because the nonprofits we were working with felt they can’t be associated with people who are being called racists, since these nonprofits work in the black community and here in Chicago there is a neverending turf war on the Southside, where anything is game when it comes to business or politics. People who’ve worked with us in the past decided their own jobs would be in jeopardy if they had us on upcoming projects, because if the black community was riled up against these organizations for having people called RAAACISTS! on the team, then their own jobs would be lost. The way it works is this: if you have a job in the black community, there is always someone out there who wants that job instead of you, and that person will look for any sort of hook to yank you from that job so they can take it. This RAAACIST garbage is always a favorite hook.
And it is the chief weapon of the Left against just about everyone.
Rally to HillBuzz. They deserve your support.
Rallying: Stacy and Donald Douglas.
And more on casual defamation.
More better update: Cynthia Yockey was all over this days ago.
It seems kinda unwise for a not dirty socialist to have too much financial exposure to stuff what the dirty socialists can get at.
I think that’s just where we are.
Sure, it is. But not a reason not to help them out, if we can.
oh. of course. I just don’t know how to rally exactly.
But more this is a warning to others. Don’t let this happen to you.
ok I left them a supportive comment. It’s in moderation.
LOL. I’m working on that rallying thing. I’ll let you know if it works out.
Gee you don’t know what to do?? How about go to their site and give them some money and a good word! How about spread the word in the blog o sphere what hideous people who are attacking them are. You don’t know? You better be on your knees praying this is all they do to them is call them a name. You also better pray this president stays safe because these people are crazy and just might want “fix” this problem. Please God open their eyes, open all of their eyes so they can do the right thing. Amen
Jeanee, happyfeet did go say an encouraging word.
I’ve emailed a bunch of bloggers of my acquaintance, and sent an email to those guys seeing whether they mightn’t want to be on The B-Cast tomorrow, to tell their story. And I’ve sent their open letter around the Twittosphere.
If I had money, I’d send them some, but I don’t.
I didn’t know. I swear to God I didn’t know.
Dude! You were JUST at my place and you didn’t see I was rallying bloggers to Hill Buzz on Jan. 20? So no link for me? What’s up with that?
Here’s the link in case I didn’t get the HTML right:
http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/2010/01/20/kevin-dujan-of-hill-buzz-is-not-a-racist-and-he-needs-our-help/
And I linked your book in my reply to your comment and everything!
Ugh! I suck!
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This whole astroturf thing has been fun to follow. What a bunch of rookies these guys are.
Dan, your stuff from Boston was great, nice job. I still have a left over hot pocket for your lunch next time you’re in the area.
And Cynthia, welcome to my “Noteable Blogs” list. I’ve been to your site a bit the past year (usually from Little Miss Atilla). I’m sure all of my 6 readers will get to your link … eventually.
Mike (in New Hampshire)
Thanks, Mike. I honestly didn’t think I brought anything particularly insightful from Boston, but I’m glad you enjoyed it, and hope to meet you when I have a car again.
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