I scored a day off today. Anybody want to chat?

[TexasTowelie]

3. You hit the nail on the head with that last paragraph.

That part of south Texas suffers from an intellectual void so I felt that it was my civic duty to offer opinions not taken from Faux News, Limpballs or Beck.

I didn't start blogging until about three years ago as the ACA was being debated in Congress. The first time that I wrote a response to one of the RW bloggers, I actually received some thoughtful feedback so I tried to appeal to his sense of compassion but he was so deeply mired in GOP propaganda that it was like having a conversation with a brick wall.

I got tired of seeing the anti-Obama pictures (as Hitler or the voodoo doctor) and being insulted by the trash on that Website, so I got dirty and employed some of the same tactics that they use like multiple account names, checking the thumbs up approval icon and running up the view counts on individual blogs by locking the F5 key for a couple of minutes to keep pinging the Website (which is probably a denial of service attack). The RW bloggers blow everything out of proportion of course and labelled me as a hacker! Isn't that precious?

I later learned that the publishing company for the Website is deeply tied into the GOP cabal. One of their guest columnists is an expert in the oil/natural gas industry and works as a "corporate relations" specialist for the natural gas company that ripped off California back in the 2000/2001 electricity crisis. I eventually outed him as a registered lobbyist and on the board of directors for Texans for Prosperity. Since Texans for Prosperity is supposed to be non-partisan, it was quite an embarrassment for him to be identified as a RW blogger. Apparently he was so concerned that his posts could jeopardize the tax-exempt status of Texans for Prosperity, that ALL of his blog posts and comments were scrubbed from the Website! The only way that would have been possible is by obtaining the assistance of the Webmaster to scrub all of that information, so it is clear that newspaper is complicit in the activities. Of course, we both know that Republicans aren't very good at coverups so my group of allies and I enjoyed rubbing it in.

I made three friends online that jump in when necessary when the Website wars occur and then there is another liberal who prefers to remain anonymous who also enjoys belittling Repukes. Fun times in south Texas--I don't advise going there though.