A Carrion Flower by Any Other Name
In a style reminiscent of the Scarlet Pimpernel, our very own JBoz has confounded our media masters.
They seek him here, they seek him there~
Those newsies seek him everywhere!
Is he with Joe Miller? Has he a cause?
That damned elusive JBoz? *
Last night here at BJG, some fun times were had, and hilarity ensued. Little did we know that this would get so much attention. Check out just a few of the sites that just cannot believe this is not some nefarious plot, as well as some others who gave our dear friend a handy shout out.
Townhall.com writes:
Who says: “Someone enterprising mischief-maker purchased the web address that Murkowski’s ad originally promoted (which included the misspelling).”
WSJ writes:
Could there be a worse misspelling? Maybe. CBS News reports that Sen. Liza Makowsky misspelled her own name in a campaign ad–and she’s running a write-in candidacy! “[The ad] told viewers to visit LisaMurkwski.com.” That site actually belongs to a supporter of Joe Miller, who beat Muchoskey in last month’s Republican primary.
And many many more.
*Apologies to Sir Percy Blakeney
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The Huffington Post linked to it…and, of course, strongly suspects that Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Inc. is responsible!!
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They are eating through their foreheads trying to find our Jboz. The fun has really just started.
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JBoz is gonna need a hit counter on that site!
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btw…JM and I love the fact that the WSJ misspelled her name every time on purpose!!
awesome!!
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Comment section for real fun!!!
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But the entire event was captured here at BJG…lol….:-)
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RP, which comment section are you looking at?
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Fairbanks Daily News:
http://newsminer.com/pages/full_story/push?blog-entry-Murkowski+ad+misspells+her+name+on+URL &id=9606548&instance=blogs_editors_desk&sms_ss=twitter
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TLS – the hit counter cost more money. But what the heck, I just may add it. Regarding the comment section, I’m deferring to the master. JM – check your email.
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make a comment section for the meme.
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JM will be right back (had to go pick up boyo)
I couldn’t get the Fairbanks link to work right
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got it, RP, I misunderstood! [I had a Homer Simpson moment]
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By the way, Gawker kinda offers the backhand in their cover. But they have been hit with multiple libel suits and a few AG’s have sniffed at them too. They are a bunch of dirt wipes with few scruples. Yeah a liberal.
Pay them no heed but thanks for the coverage guys!!
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If this is handled right, it will go viral. Hell, Jboz will be on FOX tomorrow. He needs to call Rush. Jboz could be his own party 😆
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#9 Sent you one back just now.
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JBoz, don’t spend any money for a hit counter. Sign up for google analytics for free. It will provide the hits. You can post the dashboard to us for viewing. 🙂
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Comment from Gawker:
It really doesn’t take long to set up a shitty website mocking someone’s spelling problems nowadays, does it?
ModernMindofM: To be fair, it looks better than anything bloomberg.com has ever produced.
LOL!!!
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There’s a lot of smart people here at BJG. JBoz, JustMary, drdog TLS, just to mention a few. Seemed like a lot of people had some good ideas and input into this little whack job on lizard murmoochkins-ski.
I can’t wait for the next hit job on a rino from this wonderful site.
Go JBoz.
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GoBoz. I like it.
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Mullet, ole boy don’t leave yourself out of that list.
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Thx for the compliment mullet, but I had nothing to do with this one. I have a horrible cold, so I just sat here last night reading along, laughing until I cried and unable to type because my nose was running like a faucet. Best I’ve ever felt!!!
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Regardless of contribution to JBoz’s excellent venture, I was mostly listing smart people who know all that geek stuff and politics, and that list could have gone on forever. You four represent us all, and we is all smart too.
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TLS, I have it too. Sympathies. I am finally drying up. Thank goodness its a quickie type virus or whatever.
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How come none of those artcles mention BJG???? Or JBoz ???
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Should we all use hand sanitizer on our keyboards?
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It was the talk of twitter too: http://tweetmeme.com/story/2431429441/home-page
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JBoz said he bought the privacy package on the domain.
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Um, shouldn’t there be a link to BJG from the site? Perhaps we can attract some new Galters…
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#26 The people love it, and dammit- they wish they had thought of it. This is the year where we, the little people, stand up and point out just how asinine politicians are! They work for US. They have been slacking, and worse……going deliberately AGAINST US. Liberals went for the jugular with Palin, this is nothing by comparison, but I truly hope it inspires others to say you know what? Here is a thumb in your eye!!!
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Hell the guy that tweeted that MPT was a former Jon Kyl staffer!
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My guess is this is a 48 hour story at best, and we are half way through. It’s got some buzz, but the shelf life of stories like this are pretty short. Example, Harry’s “My little pet” isn’t even being talked about any longer, and that was what – a whole 6 days ago?
The Murky typo was fun – but didn’t really hit mainstream consciousness. Didn’t make it on Drudge. Little, if any mention on talk radio. Not water cooler discussion at the office.
This was definitely a good time for us though…it will fade by tomorrow, and be long gone by Friday. I will probably take the site down in a day or two…and look for the next easy target to pounce on.
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Just googled “lisa murkwski”. One is to the previouspost on about Sarah Palin outpolling the one. Run for the tall grass, Jboz. Your postname will be hated by all liberals soon.
😆
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Should we all use hand sanitizer on our keyboards?
Not strong enough. Agent Orange if you please….
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The right loves it, and will be inspired, watch!
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JBoz is the man.
Now if he /she/it was smart, he/she/it would go deep undercover in some third world hellhole where they don’t even have an internet connection. By some time tomorrow he/she/it will be outed by some far left group sponsored by Soros. About now they are back tracking trying to locate him/she/it. That plane/helicopter over head is THEM closing in on you JBoz.
Once they have you JBoz, everything about you will go public. That known, that unknown and that made up. They will go viral about you ditching the line in the cafeteria in grade school. They will bring up your over due library book fees. They will delve into your relationships, past present and future. By the time they get done with you, you wont be able to volunteer at the local dog park as a pooper scooper volunteer.
Run man while you still have time.
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JM, ?
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Don’t scare him! That is the rub with today’s commentary. The right has to be quiet, and the left gets to draw blood. It is BS! No more!
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#36 Sorry, I misread you so I corrected it.
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JBoz that would be about right on the shelf life. But it does appear we got into the heads of some of the beltway types in the fun of the moment. You will be immortalized in the annals of the Internet Wayback Machine.
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Perhaps we can make it look like the actual Lisa Murkowski site and put up a cartoon picture of Muhammad forcing her to go into hiding.
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So many fun things to do with it, but Dad and I were just discussing election rules tonight, and a funny thing to do with the site is just state them. State what the rules are about how a name is spelled, and nothing more.
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Google has 222 hits already.
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JM #41 – please elaborate
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#43 Leave her picture up, then write the election rules- along with the sites saying that she can get the vote if someone so much as writes “Lisa M“.
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You know what would be fun to do- contact every single Lisa M in Alaska……….and ask them to run.
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The intent of the voter has to be clear, and in Alaska, the oval next to the blank must be checked.
Put a direction to ignore the oval.
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Pimpin’ dudes and dudettes!
Anytime you can throw a wrench like this in the elitest/statist tyranny machine is a good one!
A free bottle of Ripple to our friend JBoz!
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I don’t want to raise any alarm, especially JBoz, but the whole thing can be easily found out in two easy steps. On Google —
Enter JBoz. You will get this —
http://bejohngalt.com/2010/09/open-thread-saturday-52/
Little deductive reasoning and JBoz BeJohnGalt yields this —
http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=pub-5386907765195439&cof=FORID%3A13%3BAH%3Aleft%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.linuxmint.com%3BCX%3AGoogle%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.linuxmint.com%2Fimg%2Fcse.png%3BLH%3A100%3BLP%3A1%3BVLC%3A%23663399%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3B&adkw=AELymgUaiz4-S4wc3quFlFLQ4A-szcEY_IQxhY6UFOHayxPH612mXZSP_ieGgLAPbI-xnm5Z1N9TXDuCKUl9r0Y0YaJcFm4XXRZ3o7VS9EfaKUASeqxqQ4Q&channel=5656732914&q=jBoz+BeJohnGalt&btnG=Search&cx=002683415331144861350%3Atsq8didf9x0
The third hit being the actual thread we utilized. So we are discoverable. The only thing that prevents it all is the knowledge of the JBoz keyword. Wise that you went thru a proxy service Sir.
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The Murky typo was fun – but didn’t really hit mainstream consciousness. Didn’t make it on Drudge. Little, if any mention on talk radio.
I just sent the link to drudge and my local syndicated radio guy just to see if we could kick it a little further down the road tomorrow. 🙂
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Guuuurrrppppp
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Tole ya………drdog is smart.
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“I am not now, nor have I ever been a Marxist or an enemy of the people of the United States” — Chris Coons.
Interesting use of words. May I suggest a follow up question? Under what circumstances were you ever accused of being an enemy of the people of the United States?
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#43 Also, wait a week for this so we can get it right. We can take it right back down after the election.
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Actually Mullet I would advise against 46. I don’t know Alaskan voting laws but that could be construed as vote tampering.
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repeat…..
tole ya. drdog is smart (er than the mullet).
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JBoz, no worries, Mate!
I love the snarkiness of it…I’d wait to put the voting rules until tomorrow. I’ll dig you up some on the gal who apparently hates Palin…and is the one running the election. Gail what’s-her-face is the one who during the 2008 election claimed Todd Palin wanted Alaska to secede from the Union. She’s the one making up the NEW rules on write-ins. Saying that “Lisa M. will certainly count”. even just “Lisa”
anyway, that’s my $.02 woth.
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MPT, good eyes on the Coons statement. Its telling that he even feels compelled to rebut it. If there is truth behind the rebuttal COD should push it. If not let it go. If mishandled screams of McCarthyism could be brought forward by Coons.
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Leeza Muchomexicanos-ski out at the Energy committee.
Burr (NC) to become ranking member.
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Mullet, it’s my understanding that she is still on the committee, but is simply being stripped of being the ranking Republican on the committee. Is the correct? Can anyone clarify what this really means?
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Dingy harry can schedule another cloture vote on DADT/DREAM ACT, and she will jump ship out of spite.
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Coons is may or may not be a marxist……who cares?
He is definitely a fan of authoririan/Statist government……..despotism masked in collectivist ideology is still tyranny……
And yes, absol-freakin-lutely he is an enemy of the people……not a doubt in my coyote skull
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As did we. 😀
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Mary,
Shall I issue a pre KOS moron alert in anticipation of all the idiots that might descend on us???
LOL
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#60 that and for a bribe from her authoririan statist buddies…..
Once you are tainted by the smear of collectivist corruption you will sell out your own parents, offspring, etc for a wiff of power….
The will probably appoint Liza Jerkslutski as “Minister of Quisling Affairs” or some such crap….
BUUUUURPPPPPPP
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What proxy service are you folks using and why? Do you use it for access to BJG? Should I be paranoid?
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Many targets of opportunity.
Why hasn’t BJG been hit with more acroso types??
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#63 The cool thing about having a WordPress format while not being wordpress dot com is that I can boot people from the site, so no worries.
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#65 Fear not, my friend.
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#63 Great, we need some KOS plants infesting the gultch……..more ????? type lemmings…..
Swell, I think I will have to have a Pabst/Cisco boilermaker lol
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Shall I issue a pre KOS moron alert
Eph, I believe your previous ones are still in effect. However, thanks for being on watch and looking out for all of us. 😉
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Why hasn’t BJG been hit with more acroso types?
I think we are flying below the radar. At least, so far.
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MPT,
The proxy service mentioned is for domain registration. So a whois search just shows that XXXXXXX.com was the domain registrar. The real owner of the domain is kept hidden.
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Thats one thing I thought was cool when I was living up in Alaska – they had the Alaskan Independece Party that wanted to secced from the U.S………..
Based upon the theory that essentially the people of Alaska were given no real choice by the Feds other then statehood and giving up 90% of their land to Federal control….
Turns out they were light years ahead of the curve as far as the authoriran takeover thats currently in progress…..
Joe Vogler was the Reagan of the Independece party…….cool dude……google him
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We need a troll or two now and then to sharpen our rapiers.
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mpt – as long as we don’t fly into the mountain.
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#71 we are only know to the HHR ????? of the world and to Andrews on Random Notes…..
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“Why hasn’t BJG been hit with more acroso types?”
Because BJG is not on the rolling blogs for Con. Blog Advertising. I remember when Wussing was not on the roll and he had about 20 posts per thread. Now that he’s on the roll the KOS idiots/RINOs have found a home. And had about 600 posts per thread. If that happens here I’ll go back to Red State
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#71 Couple things, I control registration just like Michelle Malkin does. A standard wordpress account will not work on here unless you register it the same. I can also boot people without going through wordpress, which is another detractor. If they want to come, let them come, and if they cannot speak their mind without “Bush and teh Joos are the cause of all the world’s problems” or peeing on my couch, they can stick around.
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#77 Wussing allows anyone to post under any name with any email address. It is almost an invitation. I may or may not have posted there before. 😉
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Thanks DrDog, I was thinking people are using an HTTP proxy to access the site to mask IP addresses or something. Duh? I guess we’re not that paranoid. Yet!
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“and if they cannot speak their mind without “Bush and teh Joos are the cause of all the world’s problems” or peeing on my couch, they can stick around.”
YES !
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I still say this is dead by Thursday. But who knows. At end of the day, this is simply a matter of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Ammendment
Also, I added a respectful message to the Sen. at the bottom, urging her to do the right thing. One can never tell…it just might be crazy enough to work.
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79. Yup. That is another reason why that place is 80% troll. Too easy to post there. And perfect for lazy libs.
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Ok anybody got any money left for a political flyer? Althouse has the story. Its a man named Hayes. Running for US House, Chicago 2nd district. He is running against Jackson Jr. who is well heeled. (If you can offer $6m to Blago for a Senate seat, that’s well heeled in my book.) His chances look slim to dismal but he looks like our kind of guy politically.
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“I may or may not have posted there before”
You can borrow one of my 30 HHR aliases if you want JM.
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http://www.epolitics.com/ (bold is mine)
Yep, the ad listed “www.lisamurkwski.com” in its first incarnation, an error caught by the online press with much mirth and joy. And of course, someone moved fast to buy up the misspelled domain name, which now plays host to a site that’s not exactly flattering to the sitting Senator (it starts here and gets worse: “Lisa Murkowski is an elitist, Big Government, Tax and Spend career politician who was given the seat by her daddy.”). Ah, sweet internets — you never let me down.
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#86 This is a good thing!
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You can borrow one of my 30 HHR aliases if you want JM.
Jeez, Eph, you need to change your middle name to Carrie 😀
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JBoz, just don’t let it go to your head and go Charlie Johnson on us. OK!
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just switched to MSNBC and Rachel Madness is going to talk about the mispelling after the commercial.
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89. LMAO!
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you need to change your middle name to Carrie
Or Sybil.
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On now
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90. are you kidding?
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Hey, I saw it on MSNBC. Who is Rachel Maddow?
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Too bad they didn’t show the version mentioning the “meth”. LOL!
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Oh. Em. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee YES!!!!!!!
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I changed it just in t i m e to see Rachel’s smirk and a lovely shot of the site 😀
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NEW SHARON ANGLE AD
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OK, you seriously need to check this out. Firstly, a commenter listed the video without any description and now the poor poster #2 can’t figure out why she’s promoting this site. Secondly, isn’t that bc’s “D” next to the video?????
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×9175764
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Maddow is snarky little twit with a Vassar attitude.
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I need a drink.
Thanks JBoz
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Oh and you made the Daily Caller, but from his comments, perhaps he was there when the RINO was there. 🙂
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#100 The DUmp is good comedy.
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#103 Too cool
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Did they really show my Murky site on Maddow?
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JBoz…I’m starting to think we should totally milk this. Can we push a BJG link onto there without too much trouble????
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Yes, she was asking about you. Wants your number, if you were married etc
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JR – you really want that? There are some pretty wild stuff said here…love it all, but it’s said within the family so to speak.
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JBoz evidently. You ought to call up RightHaven LLC and hit MSNBC with a copyright suit. Just kidding. But sometimes you just want to slap the system around with it own rules….
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IP –
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JBoz’s 15 minutes!!! Congratulations!
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JM? What do you think??
And our stuff is tame compared to many other sites. If nothing else maybe we just invite people for Poetry Night? 👿
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IP 🙁 gaack!
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jb. Yes she did.
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The old time swordsmiths used to temper their blades in the bodies of living slaves. Perhaps a little tempering of our rapiers might be fun~~~for awhile.
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JR, I think a BJG link would be a good thing.
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JBoz – don’t do it. The political elite will require a rectum exam without the vaseline.
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btW. Franken is on now. How could COD be any worse the this idiot.
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Let me make a page for it, then link to the page. I want some sort of story behind it/ manifesto. I want to have our 15 minutes on the podium! I’ll email it to you when it’s done.
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118 .Yes sir
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COD Slogan: Yes WicCan
Sorry, sometimes these things just come out.
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All – I’m going night night now. Long day. Have fun.
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I agree with IP…though I don’t want nasty trolls. It’d be nice if they had SOME brains!
I still remember, fondly, the fun I had editing ????’s comments.
She’d type: “Justrand you suck big stupid moose-Johnsons“, and I’d change it to: “Justrand, you’re right…I am just a brainless bimbo!”
Only took her about an HOUR to catch on! 🙂
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c ya, JBoz…g’night and thx! Keep a bag packed for when the black SUVs show up! 🙂
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She was out hunting moose johnsons
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Folks, the flu has drained me. Tonite has been more fun than a $3.99 Pay-Per-View so I will need to hit the BJG tip jar. JBoz thank you for a most entertaining evening. To one and all of BJG, good fighters all —
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Perpare yourself for troll-a-palooza !!!
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I’m with gn actually. A few trolls is one thing, but Maddow et all could attract a whole slew of the media matters types that could last longer than 15 min. just my 2 cents.
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#120 Its authoririan Idiots nite out every freakin’ nite on MSNBC lol
What gets me is how smirky beeeetcches with bad “vassar” tudes and a arsejack thats about as funny as a kick in the junk can be consider huge intellects simply because they support unlimited authoriran central government…….
Its like that old freaking beer commerical their conversation on their:
R. MadCow “Hi Senator Smell Rankin! Do you still support dictatorial power for the central government?”
Sen. Smell Rankin’: “Why yes Ms. MadCow, I do. And those tea party hicks are nothing but big fat racists boobs. Its a good thing that we compassionate authorirans will still give them crumbs off our table yuk, yuk, yuk”
Puke
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Sigh……were in the freak do they come up with the money for all these KOS Plants?
Oh yea, our tax money funnelled thru grants to ACORN…..
Dont hear much about them now do ya lol
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Next time, give the questioners teleprompters too
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#130 I think MSNBC would do a one our “expose” about EPH’s Avatar if they got on BJG LOL
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#133 Big Brother……1984…..its all about the Big Lie from the Authoritarians that rule over the nation these days….
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Gnight all. Great thread.
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Sink me. Why anyone would want to imitate the style of Baroness Orczy is totally beyond me. This JBoz must be totally mad. Indeed.
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Not a pre requisite to post at BJG, but it’s helpful.
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#35
They seek him here, they seek him there
The George Soros forces will be seeking him everywhere!
He will give the George Soros forces nothing but frustration
Sink me! He’s a spoilsport
Each and every demned capture
He will cut short!
They seek him here, they seek him there
Those George Soros forces will be seeking him everywhere
Is he working on his tan somewhere in Miami
Or now up to some mischief in Washingtonstani?
Will he be going to Heaven or to Hell
Where is that blasted JBoz, do tell?
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Congrats on getting widely noticed!
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JBoz … thank you… (JM and JR too!!!) the leezee moocowsee website is the best laugh I have had in 22 months…
Too much fun…
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Folks…these opportunities present themselves surprisingly often. Example, I just checked and http://www.harryslittlepet.com is still available for $12. That ship has sailed, and the optimal time to pounce is past, but the point is that as these little mini-storms pop up, there are opportunities to do more Internet political theater.
I was thinking of Harry Reid’s little objectifying comment about Gillibrand last night. First, she’s OK but not in the same league with some of the conservative women we have on our side. Then I checked:
http://www.harrythepervert.com. and
http://www.harrysgaffes.com
Both available for $12/year – not saying these are the right ones, but the opportunities exist, and these tempest news stories pop up several times a week, especially during election season.
This opportunity, combined with the proven ability of the BJG community to engage in dynamic, real-time, collaborative website design, could provide hours and hours of cheap entertainment. Not sure anyone else is doing this…we could have stumbled onto something big. Anyway, time to hit the treadmill – which is both something I need to do to stay healthy and a metaphor for my career.
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excellent rejoinder, blakeney!
and JBoz…I agree!
your nimbleness (is that even a word?) paid off in helping stick a fork in the pork roast that is Murquasikowski. I think we (et al) should indeed pounce on further opportunities!! Geez…how did we miss “Harryslittlepet”??? The photos from IP would have been, uh, “interesting” 🙂
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well…the legend continues htatip INSTAPUNDIT]:
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/15951.html
enjoy!
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JR – we missed harryslittlepet because this little project just materialized out of thin air with the Murkwski typo gaffe. Prior to that, nobody here was thinking along those lines…and the fact that I could stll buy it 3 hours after the gaffe was circulating on the Internet, tells me that surprisingly nobody else in the blogosphere is thinking along these lines either…yet.
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JBoz, folks are gonna be thinking that way now! the Instapundit link will draw a LOT of traffic!!
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We’ll have to be much faster in the future. Check out this post from D’underground:
Towlie (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-21-10 10:07 PM
Original message
I just grabbed murkwski.com and am now forwarding it to scottmcadams.org. I hope it helps.
If you’ve been following the story on MSNBC about how Lisa Murkowski’s campaign botched the spelling of her website URL in an ad, spelling it “lisamurkwski.com” instead, then you’ll understand what this is about.
Someone else grabbed the URL, lisamurkwski.com and created a website ridiculing her, but that site appears to favor Mark Levin, the Republican candidate, or at least that’s what Rachel Maddow said this evening.
So, for what it’s worth, I now own http://www.murkwski.com / and am redirecting it to http://www.scottmcadams.org/
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Mark Levin?
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JBoz…hey, it’s the Dem Underground. I used to dumpster-dive there before elections and remind them to vote on WEDNESDAY. I always felt I made a difference! 👿
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Mark Levin?
Don’t blame them JBoz, they’re just copying the strategy of changing the name of the candidate to confuse write in voters. Of course, Miller isn’t a write in candidate, but hey, if they want to write Mark Levin in that space I’m sure he won’t mind!!
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I generally don’t like redirects. I find them to be disingenuous, lacking in creativity and devoid of fun. Further, internet pranking shouldn’t ever interfere with the preferred campaign, or inadvertently compromise the integrity of the candidate one is supporting by appearing to be aligned with said candidate.
Also, I like the fact that they are redirecting to McAdams. That tactic actually advances the objective of marginalizing the write-in candidacy of Murkowski, and promotes a 2 person race…a strategy that greatly favors Miller in this case.
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JM, This thread and the original need to be made a category in your sidebar so we can easily find it. JBoz or someone else may even score another before the election.
Call it carrion flower.
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good call, mullet. ( JM may not see this until later…she mentioned to me she would be off-line most of today. )
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http://www.carrionflower.com is available for $12/year 😉