Combined number of times I've linked those four: maybe once.

I'm in, but is it really a boycott of the big oil companies if you never owned a car in the first place?

You deserve a Filet-o-Fish for the effort, Ace. Treat yourself tonight.

Bill,

Thank you for making this a project. I've been telling the Wizbang guys this for the last few days, but they seem to like giving him traffic.

It's the same MO every time: link to a bigger right wing blogger and insult him/her. Go to their comments section and drop some unpolished turds. Watch the links and trackbacks come in.

Finally Insty stopped getting drawn into this bullshit. Hopefully Kevin et al will stop too.

I never thought one could say this about O-Chub, but he's the incredible shrinking blogger.

As my update acknowledges, you are the master. But ...

A. You've often bothered to take down his (il)logic on a point-by-point basis. I'm suggesting that you just make the mean jokes.

B. You linked him a lot.

Otherwise, I bow to your style.

Sonofnixon forces me to ask something that has been bugging me for a while:

Just what is the back-story on the "Filet-o-Fish" crack that so many people throw at O-Tub?

It must have been something he did or said before I started following this site about eight or nine months ago, but I've never stumbled across a proper explanation.

(Forgive this lowly lurker - I know that even thinking about Willis gives some people the hives - but this is one of those things that I've just GOT TO KNOW!!!!)

Thanks.

...and if he MUST be mentioned at all, use "O-Dub" or "Filet-o-fish" so that he'll be harder to find for the terminally curious.

Bill,

I didn't link him very often at all, except early on in this blog's history.

Generally, I've "slinked" him, or "shit-linked" him, by which I mean I quote him and say I got this from Oliver willis but provide no link.

Ah yes, slinking him is the way to go. It's the perfect compromise between giving him what he wants and still having the option to make him cry.

And he does. Cry.

You fell right into my trap, racists! Besides, I got most of my traffic from Instacracker anyway. He's gonna notice me again someday. I just know he is!

BLAAAAOW! I win again. Bow down to the O-Tub.

I rock so hard, you can't even read my name. Take it all, biaaaatch!

You know, Willis must had discovered something very truthful or all you repubniks would not be running so fast from him.

I do know something...

The truth does hurt...

Doesn't it.

"Magnus" (that's gotta be OW, what a pompous-dorky, creepily erotic nic)

Yes, the truth is that we are all made of processed, fried whitefish, and the O-Chub is our sworn enemy.

We FEAR the truth. And the truth is named OW.

Yeah.

I don't see anyone running from O Dumb. I do see a lot of adults deciding not to play with the retarded fat kid that shits on their shoes and tries to kick them in the shin. If MS was at all connected to reality, it could see the same thing, but it's not, and here we are.

Magnum Serpentine :"...all you repubniks would not be running so fast from him."

why the hell would anybody need to run fast from that chunky fuck? Unless he tucks his stubby legs under him and roles after us like the rock in Temple of Doom.

For the record, even when you guys link them, I've never gone to any of their sites. Not once, ever. I've never gone to DU or Kos, either. I may have gone to Sullivan's but it's been a long long time.

They don't get traffic from me and they shouldn't from anyone else.

Later,
bbeck

bbeck -

You have no inkling of the amusement you're depriving yourself of. You just haven't lived until you've watched a thread full of DU posters bubble and boil around inconvenient realities to come up with convoluted ways to understand the world in synch with their dogma. Plus, you waste their bandwidth.

Sir,

Regards Oliver Willis, he's so fat that even at his relatively tender age he will never again see his member, a Vegas stripper (as close as OW will get to an actual woman barring roofies and duct tape) would assume he's in town for the Trekkie convention and his only friend is George Soros. Do you think that you can be any tougher on this guy than life already is?

Sincerely,

rcl

I think the best thing to do is publicly ignore Willis and let Oliver be Oliver. I tried to have an civil discourse with him via email, but got nary a peep. I registered for his comments but he never sent a confirmation. I can't say I blame him. When confronted by his own hypocrisy in an intelligent, non-insulting way, he retreats. Insults are his only refuge. I checked his Sitemeter stats and he appears to be in a generally downward trend. People are growing weary of him and are tuning out. If he were not bankrolled by Media Matters he would still be a Flippery Fish in the Ecosystem.

Doug, as far as I'm concerned, their bandwidth is already wasted. Besides, after reading and posting at political message boards for over 10 years, I've seen -- and been the cause of -- enough liberal melt down in my life. I'm sated...and I always know what they're going to say anyway without physically taking the trip to go see it.

I'll leave you to all the fun. Enjoy. :)

Later,
bbeck

Marcus,

I would like to counter, by reminding the repubniks that on the so-called Social Security blog, the comments were 95% against mr. bush's plan to destroy social security that mr. bush ordered the blog not to accept ANY comments so they removed peoples ability to comment or challange their mistaken remarks.

And I havn't counted, but there are several repubnik blogs that have not sent me a letter saying I am approved to post on their sites also.

And in closing, you do know what they call a one-party state don't you? Facist State and yes its mis-spelled.

So suck on that, chickenhawks!