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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mary Ann on April 16, 2013, 01:08:34 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022685512
LuckyTheDog (5,653 posts) Tue Apr 16, 2013, 01:45 PM
I am a token liberal for the Detroit News politics blog. As anybody from SE Michigan would know, the Detroit News editorial page is a really right-wing operation. For a while, it ran a website called Michigan View, which could have been called "Freepers and Teabaggers on Parade."
After Michigan View was closed down (lack of advertising, I think), the News started a politics blog and recruited me to be one of the token liberals. The editors have been nothing but nice to me but the readers... not so much. As one might guess, the comments are usually critical and sometimes kind of abusive.
If anybody would be interested in taking on some of the teabaggers in the comments section, that would be awfully nice.
Here is my section of the blog: http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/author/jmelton/
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"Freepers and Teabaggers on Parade."
...the comments are usually critical and sometimes kind of abusive.
With an attitude like that, I'd say you probably deserve it.
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Someone with a Facebook account should C&P his DU post onto his Detroit News blog and let his readers know he's having to request others defend him since he, it seems, can't do it himself. That should give them a laugh.
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James Melton, you're pathetic...
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The Detroit News has their FB page locked down, but I shared Mr. Melton's DU post on Twitter.
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Most commenters on news sites are moonbats. :mental:
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The Detroit News has their FB page locked down, but I shared Mr. Melton's DU post on Twitter.
Good. Thanks.
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Good. Thanks.
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It would help if I could get some retweets.
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The typical DUmmie can't think for themselves. They have to return to the hive to see what the collective thinks about any subject. This is were a good dose of morals would help this DUmmie out of his little writers block.
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:ohmy:
Hmm.
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LuckyTheDog (5,654 posts)
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Looks like someone got thumped on the forehead. :hammer: :rotf:
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LuckyTheDog (5,653 posts) Tue Apr 16, 2013, 01:45 PM
I am a was the token liberal for the Detroit News politics blog.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018368025
Oh my.
LuckyTheDog (5,659 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:27 PM
Oh, Goody... I have cyber stalkers
So, yesterday I wrote what was originally supposed to be a PM to a few people, letting then know that I am blogging for the Detroit News. I wanted people to know I was there and (with any luck) post some non-abusive responses.
Well, for whatever reason, I actually posted that as a thread (in General Discussion) without thinking. I let it stay up for just a little while (maybe 15 minutes, maybe up to an hour, I am not sure). But then I thought better of it and deleted it because some of what I said could be seen as a slap at Henry Payne, the editor of that blog -- which was not my intention.
Despite its short history that post was cut and pasted and posted as a message on my blog. A couple people also "tweeted" excerpts to the Detroit News.
I expect people logging on to to call me an idiot. I am used to it . But this kind of thing is just weird. The News isn't even paying me, but its readers are trying to get me fired. Nice, eh?
Well, cyber-stalkers, it didn't work. Henry is a guy I disagree with on a lot of issues. But he's a real pro. He took my little mea culpa in stride.
On edit: This is a link to my blog posts: http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/author/jmelton/
The lucky dog primitive couldn't be that lucky.
The lucky dog primitive's not even a light-year within of being on this radar.
Aristus (28,553 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:34 PM
1. Hate-stalkers. That's too bad.
It's a shame they weren't "I-want-to-have-sex-with-you" stalkers.
Keep your chin up. Writing in support of the public interest is a noble calling...
LuckyTheDog (5,659 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:47 PM
2. Conservatives can be creepy
Aristus (28,553 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:49 PM
3. When you live in your mom's basement and get your news from Fox, creepy happens...
LuckyTheDog (5,659 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:08 PM
13. BTW...
Three of my stalkers go by @RatsunTN, @paintkarz and @thundley4 on Twitter. I have the real name of a Facebook stalker, but I probably should not post it.
Just passing that along.
Kali (33,035 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:50 PM
4. did you mean to post this in the Lounge?
feels more gd to me?
Aristus (28,553 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:53 PM
5. If he needs the safety and friendly comfort of the Lounge,
I'm cool with that...
LuckyTheDog (5,659 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:57 PM
6. That's pretty much it
But if the moderator wants to move this thread, I won't scream.
Kali (33,035 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:01 PM
9. no mods and we can't move anything - no problem see my explanation in the other reply good place for getting a cyber hug here, please carry on - sorry to interrupt, as it were
MADem (84,752 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:02 PM
10. No more moderators...just hosts. They can't move stuff, either. It's a brave new world on DU3.
I hope you don't let a few stalking jerks get to you, though.
They must not have much in the way of a life.
Uh huh.
Anybody reading an obscure lumpenunterprimitiven like the lucky dog primitive can't have much in the way of a life.
<<<goes after only big game, the Primitives of Prominence.
Kali (33,035 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:59 PM
7. sure, no problem
but it kind of seemed like it was a message being broadcast to whoever and GD would have a bigger audience (also seems to be where he may have picked up the stalker to whom he was messaging)
there have been any number of posts in the lounge where you could tell the person had probably clicked the wrong link from the "Latest Threads" page, since the Lounge is right below the GD link. I would guess probably half the very few SoP alerts hosts get for the Lounge are because of this.
so that is the long-winded explanation for why I asked
Apparently the lucky dog primitive missed this:
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,86092.0.html
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lulz
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I got a shout out, or at last someone with a similar name on Twitter did.
Retweeting someone is stalking them?
RatsunTN â€@RatsunTN 16 Apr
@detroitnews James Melton: "Freepers and Teabaggers on Parade" http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022685512
Retweeted by thundley4
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You blog for a newspaper you idiot! You announce it on the internet you twit! And then you complain people are going there to read what you post you dumbshit! What the hell is wrong with you? Isn't that what you/your company would want? MORE traffic! You're an ass!
Cindie
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Anybody reading an obscure lumpenunterprimitiven like the lucky dog primitive can't have much in the way of a life.
<<<goes after only big game, the Primitives of Prominence.
Well, there's no question this nameless, faceless loser is a lumpenunterprimitiven.
He could hardly be more insignificant or more obscure.
But his ignorant LTEs in the Detroit News represent journalism light-years beyond the level of the crazy bald dwarf.
The Detroit News, after all, is printed on actual PAPER.
Even if he's only in their online version, it's read by at least a thousand times more people than Crazy Miriam's online San Diego pennysaver.
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Well, there's no question this nameless, faceless loser is a lumpenunterprimitiven.
He could hardly be more insignificant or more obscure.
The primitives really need to get a sense of proportion.
I mean, it's not as if decent and civilized people are observing all of them.
And the DUmpster's pretty tiny, compared with Skins's island; there aren't enough of us around to capture the violence, the sedition, the stupidity of all the primitives.
Me, for example, I can keep track of only circa 15 primitives at any one time.
And so if we notice a primitive, it's a mark of distinction.
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Oh please...why would anyone here want to stalk any loser on the dump.
Paranoia and narcissism is rampant over there.
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DUmbshits call 'em 'stalkers'. The rest of the world calls 'em parole/probation officers.
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Oh dear - apparently you're all now a bunch of cyber-stalkers...and poor little Lucky needs some love from the Lounge.
LuckyTheDog (5,659 posts)
Oh, Goody... I have cyber stalkers
So, yesterday I wrote what was originally supposed to be a PM to a few people, letting then know that I am blogging for the Detroit News. I wanted people to know I was there and (with any luck) post some non-abusive responses.
Well, for whatever reason, I actually posted that as a thread (in General Discussion) without thinking. I let it stay up for just a little while (maybe 15 minutes, maybe up to an hour, I am not sure). But then I thought better of it and deleted it because some of what I said could be seen as a slap at Henry Payne, the editor of that blog -- which was not my intention.
Despite its short history that post was cut and pasted and posted as a message on my blog. A couple people also "tweeted" excerpts to the Detroit News.
I expect people logging on to to call me an idiot. I am used to it . But this kind of thing is just weird. The News isn't even paying me, but its readers are trying to get me fired. Nice, eh?
Well, cyber-stalkers, it didn't work. Henry is a guy I disagree with on a lot of issues. But he's a real pro. He took my little mea culpa in stride.
On edit: This is a link to my blog posts: http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/author/jmelton/
DUmp Link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018368025)
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Oh please...why would anyone here want to stalk any loser on the dump.
Paranoia and narcissism is rampant over there.
If what we do is stalking then the monkeys at the zoo are stalked.
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The mutt needs to get over itself.
It was drug over to laugh at, and we did. :rotf: :lmao:
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If what we do is stalking then the monkeys at the zoo are stalked.
My thoughts exacty.
That's been my thoughts ever since the first time I spotted the primitives more than twelve years ago.
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The News isn't even paying him, yet I still wonder if they are getting their money's worth.
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James Melton has over 5,000 posts at DU but we're supposed to believe he can't tell the difference between a new topic post and a private message? I have to wonder how dumb he thinks his "teabagger" readers are to swallow a lie like that.
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DUmbshits call 'em 'stalkers'. The rest of the world calls 'em parole/probation officers.
Target! H5!
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He insulted his readership, then he requested "help" from the DUmpmonkies, in an attempt to pack the comments section with moonbattery. He is unable to defend his assertions all by himself. This is laziness and poor "journalism." Somebody please do my work for me!!!
Nobody's stalking you, Melton.
P.S. It wasn't a "PM." It was a thread. A public thread. Are you internet-illiterate, or what?
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Aristus (28,553 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:34 PM
1. Hate-stalkers. That's too bad.
It's a shame they weren't "I-want-to-have-sex-with-you" stalkers.
How odd. :rotf:
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LuckyTheDog
The News isn't even paying me, but its readers are trying to get me fired.
(snicker)
No one's trying to get you fired, idiot. You wanted a bunch of your fellow dolts to log onto your site and support your stupid opinions. I suggested it'd be nice for your regular readers to know you need help defending your nonsense by posting your request on DU. That's not stalking, dimwit. The few readers you have deserve to know you called in the Keystone Cops of political knowledge to back you up, that's all.
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He insulted his readership, then he requested "help" from the DUmpmonkies, in an attempt to pack the comments section with moonbattery. He is unable to defend his assertions all by himself. This is laziness and poor "journalism." Somebody please do my work for me!!!
Nobody's stalking you, Melton.
P.S. It wasn't a "PM." It was a thread. A public thread. Are you internet-illiterate, or what?
Reminds of a bald dwarf. It really does.