Intellectual Lightweight Bill M (Of all of the Bill M's in the state, he thinks he is the one that is so well known and so important that everyone should know who he is if he just signs his name "Bill M") of Colorado Media Matters left another three paragraph love note today:
Um, Grampa Tom ***********, it's not exactly incognito when your blog asks me to provide my name along with the comment. And if you don't want YOUR name posted on the Internet, why did you post on your own blog my comment that included it?
When you sign your name "Bill M" and have an email address that abbreviates your last name, you are posting incognito. The only way I figured out who you were was to check to see if your IP had left a comment before. It had and you had used your whole name.
You should feel honored. I knew exactly what I was doing. Others use my name but I don't approve their comments. You are the first person in a year to get a post in while using my name. And why would I do that? Simple. It is much more effective to point out that you were asked in person not to use my name and you used it anyway by showing readers what you did. Lowlife.
BTW, I've got nothing against the Philippines Inquirer as a source of information. What I do object to are people such as you who post content they claim is an "article" without revealing that it's an opinion piece, and without citing the source so readers can decide for themselves how much weight to give it.
On this blog three descriptions are used interchangeably. They are "essay," "article," and "opinion piece." What do you think you are, my journalism teacher? You've spent way too much time criticizing others who might care what you think and write about style. I don't. If you don't like it, go climb a small hill on a windy day and relieve yourself into the wind. Do it alone or you will be a sex offender.
Just for fun, I went to Colorado Media Matters and counted the number of links in the first essay/article/opinion piece I found that didn't separately cite the source. You had seven links of which only two cited the sources. Move out of your glass house and start doing crosswords to begin building intellect.
Oh, and a blogger who criticizes a comment posted to his blog without actually allowing that comment to be seen on the item to which it was posted will probably always have the type of traffic that your blog has. I'm just sayin'...
One of the things I have learned is that readers are lazy. Most simply do not look at comments. If I want folks to see the comment, there isn't a need to publish it if I use it as part of a post. You've made no claim that the comment was reproduced inaccurately, and you won't.
If you had something to say worth reading, you would have finished your sentence. You might consider repeating the 9th grade. Heck, sign up for the school newspaper, but don't tell them that you are ethically challenged.
I have in the past admitted that my blog has three...or is it seven readers? I'm quite content with the readership or I wouldn't keep doing this.
Do come back.
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