No one has been more vigilant than Scenty in defending the rights of bloggers to speak their minds (as long as they’re not spewing Islamopoopynazidimmitude). To that end he lifted comment moderation on the Scented Litterbox to, as he put it, facilitate “discussion”. I guess even Scenty dimly realized there was a bit of a conceptul gap between pretending to be a free speech warrior and not allowing anyone to disagree with you.
Well, Peter and I have been doing our bit to make the moronosphere a better place by policing the Scented Litterbox for the benefit of his readers. And we certainly helped them a lot. Among the many egregious errors we saved them from believing during our brief stint of public service:
- a year old report on an impending US invasion of Iran which Scenty breathlessly mistook for a news release;
- a hilariously unsourced, unproven climate change piece which Scenty’s readership thought was real science;
- a joke by Glen Beck on Hillary Clinton’s “racism” which poor Scenty actually mistook for a serious editorial;
- Scenty’s assertion that a group of fundamentalists disrupting a gay celebreation were arrested “just for silent prayer!!!”
All this editorial assistance - absolutely free, mind you! - In just a couple of weeks. Well, you’d have a thought a thank you note would be in order from Steve…maybe even a nice bottle of wine for bringing up the tone of his blog. But the funniest thing began to happen. Our free speech warrior - that tower of strength who caved into to Warren Kinsella, but came creeping back when the all-clear sounded - that staunch defended of the rights of oppressed bloggers - started to censor our corrections. Little notes like this began to appear, over our names:
Deleted. Evasion. Game playing. Ditto the other one. -Ed
Deleted. Hostile. Entitlist to a disturbing extreme. -Ed
Deleted. Off-topic, irrelevant and trollish. -Ed
And my favourite, after I suggested that he had been editing my posts:
Liar. I have not edited your comments. Besides, this is a private blog, not the public.
This last was directly under post of mine from which he had removed my comment, and added the line
Yes, censoring again. Fascist that I am. What do you expect? -Ed
It’s been a weird old week among the URQs: Kate McMillan’s slapdown and meltdown, Kathy Shaidle’s sudden Declaration of Hate Pride, Mike Brock’s peculiar decision to play lawyer and tangle with the grownups. But Scenty, as alway, deserves a special mention whenever the stupidity and hypocrisy of the moronosphere is tallied up.
Have a good weekend, y’all, I’m off to Montreal for some non bloggy time.
It has been quite the week hasn’t it?
Scenty is well, Scenty.
You could see the McMillan incident coming a mile away. It was only a matter of time.
As for Brock, I truly felt sorry for him but not because Kinsella misquoted him - hell, he does that to everyone. Brock’s amateur lawyer response to him was painful to read and some of his musings about it afterward were like pouring gasoline on himself while he was sitting next to a campfire. Free speech supporter or not, some things are truly better left unsaid.