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March 10, 2005

Freeper Sleuth "Buckhead" Celebrates Rather Knockout

Free Republic usually only posts excerpts, but here they've published the whole damn article (which otherwise requires annoying registration).

Buckhead, of course, wrote that first post questioning the fonts and proportional spacing in Dan's Dodgy Documents.

Oddly enough, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution seems to give the conservatives the last word in an article for once. (Is it a conservative tilting rag? I don't know. I assume it's not.) After noting that some people (ahem, liberals, ahem) like Ken Auletta still claim Dan Rather was some sort of journalistic Green Lantern, Buckhead & Co. get in last licks:

But none of that mattered to the partygoers, including former Fulton County GOP Chairman Jack Winter and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson — who munched hors d'oeuvres on napkins and paper plates decorated like the American flag.

"Congratulations, fella," Winter told MacDougald as he entered the party.

MacDougald sees himself and other bloggers as part of band of citizen journalists who have upset the order of corporate media giants.

"The information oligarchy that TV had, that's gone," MacDougald said. "They'll never be as powerful as network anchors once were."

As Rather signed off, the crowed filed out — MacDougald with them.

Said MacDougald, "The wicked witch is dead."

Again, Buckhead is called a blogger, which he's technically not.

At some point we'll have to think of the right term for Buckhead and other non-blogging contributors to forums and blogs. Not technically bloggers, but part of the same army and same movement, obviously. I'm always straining my way around this currently-uncoined-word myself.

Plus... Iowahawk pens his last Dan Rather, Investigator mystery:

strode past the security desk, but Fremont grabbed my arm, roughly. "Sorry Mister Rather, authorized personnel only."

"What the... what's going on here?" I yelled. I felt the goon's stubby fingers clamping down through my trenchcoat. "Here's my badge, you filthy ape -- now you call up Moonves and straighten this out!"

He yanked on the badge, snapping from its lanyard. "Sorry Mister Rather, I have to take this. Direct orders from Captain Moonves himself."

I didn't have time to think. I instinctively reached inside my garbadine lapel with my free hand and wrestled Black Nellie, my trusty Sony FV-100 micophone, free of her shoulder holster. She was a cheap 300 ohm model, but Nellie was deadly in close-range interviews -- like an early encounter I had with the Nixon gang (Dan Rather #1: The Phantom CReEPs). My right thumb switched her safety off, but before I could wheel around Fremont tackled me to the floor. He stomped my hand with his boot heel and kicked Nellie skittering across the lobby marble.

And... Trey Jackson has video of this gasbag saying goodbye-- finally.

But I like the original script for last night's farewell better, somehow obtained by "Rick":

[stage direction] Pan Camera One to close up as I remove my glasses.
Gripping my yet to be verified Bush documents in one hand I shake them at the world.

[teleprompter script]
Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us
revenge is a dish that is best served cold?
It is very cold in space.
To the last, I will grapple with thee.
From hell's heart, I stab at thee.
For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

[stage direction] Camera One fade to black

Classy. That's the way I'd go out.


posted by Ace at 02:46 AM
Comments



LOL...I guess, as far as uncoined words go, we've just taken "Hybrid Children" off the table. :)

Posted by: Jack M. on March 10, 2005 02:56 AM

Buckhead and other political forum posters are the precursor to bloggers. Correctly stated, bloggers are an extension of that.

Posted by: thoughtomator on March 10, 2005 04:00 AM

Blogistas?

Posted by: SJKevin on March 10, 2005 04:21 AM

Is the AJC a conservative tilting rag? nope! they're as liberal as they come, ace!

Posted by: Buddha on March 10, 2005 06:37 AM

PC mania: Off topic but I thought you might find it interesting.

PM: IKEA manuals 'show sex bias'

OSLO, Norway (Reuters) -- Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA is guilty of sex discrimination by showing only men putting together furniture in its instruction manuals, Norway's prime minister says.

IKEA, which has more than 200 stores in 32 nations, fears it might offend Muslims by depicting women assembling everything from cupboards to beds.

Posted by: yet another yobo on March 10, 2005 08:06 AM

Methinks he should have been given a handheld GPS by CBS as a going away present since he's clearly in a land that reality forgot....

Posted by: bsp on March 10, 2005 08:52 AM

I thank God that low down, lying Liberal skunk is gone. Now what can we do to take on the rest of the Liberal Media?

Posted by: 72VIRGINS on March 10, 2005 08:58 AM

1) Auxiliary bloggers

2) Blog feeders

3) The blogetariat

Posted by: D. Carter on March 10, 2005 09:06 AM

Ace, I live here in Georgia and the AJC is in no way a conservative-leaning rag. The editorial board is leftist and they feature Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd, and Thomas Friedman on a regular basis. They have their token conservative-Jim Wooten. I finally let my subscription run out and won't resubscribe, not because they are liberal, but because on both the editorial page and in the featured articles, they have become predictable and boring-Racism, homophobia and George W. Bush's incompetance are the cause of all the world's ills

Posted by: Peggy on March 10, 2005 09:10 AM

I DO wonder how many people attribute that quote to Khan instead of Ahab...and then I get really sad at the current state of our educational system...

Later,
bbeck

Posted by: bbeck on March 10, 2005 09:17 AM

i always thought of Free Republic as more of a message board, and its contributors as just posters or members

Posted by: johnny on March 10, 2005 09:34 AM

oh, and adios dan.....courage indeed

Posted by: johnny on March 10, 2005 09:40 AM

Don't think that wasn't his plan. Perhaps a higher-up nixed the festivities?

Posted by: Paladin on March 10, 2005 10:03 AM

Suggestions:

(for all blog readers)>Bleaders

(for the subset that contribute)>Blommenters


Posted by: right on March 10, 2005 10:07 AM

He needs a Kirk-like send-off:

DAAAANNNN!!!!

Posted by: Andrea Harris on March 10, 2005 10:29 AM

How 'bout these?

Auxiliary bloggers= blogxiliaries

Blog janizaries= blogozaries

Posted by: D. Carter on March 10, 2005 10:59 AM

Like this:

http://www.khaaan.com/

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos on March 10, 2005 11:01 AM

Gannonistas?

Posted by: Not Jeff Gannon on March 10, 2005 11:04 AM

I think the clinical term for people who are accessories to blogging is "co-dependents."

Posted by: Guy T. on March 10, 2005 11:58 AM

Buckhead is clearly an "uberposter".

Frequent posters of comments could be "blog regulars", "blog irregulars", or perhaps "blogulars".

As for the rest of us, we are but kibitzers and commenters.

Posted by: Maureen on March 10, 2005 12:42 PM

How about a McCoy-like send off? "He's dead, Jim"

Posted by: gail on March 10, 2005 01:12 PM

Being one myself, I prefer the term, "Whiny Loser."

Posted by: DTLV on March 10, 2005 01:42 PM

I DO wonder how many people attribute that quote to Khan instead of Ahab...and then I get really sad at the current state of our educational system...

Ahab who now?

Posted by: ace on March 10, 2005 01:57 PM

Which character was "Ahab" in Star Trek II? Was he the young guy? Or the black guy who got the "creatures in his ears"?

Posted by: ace on March 10, 2005 01:59 PM

He was the lower-ranking black swahili-talking dude who was romancing Uhura in the hallway that time who got killed by the salt-sucking monster.

You're welcome.

Posted by: lauraw on March 10, 2005 02:25 PM

OH, Star Trek II....I am so bad at this.

Posted by: lauraw on March 10, 2005 02:27 PM

not a troll, obviously, how 'bout a "NPC"?

with a combined INT plus WIS of at least 30, a "NPC-sage." INT plus WIS between 20 and 30, a "NPC-commoner." INT plus WIS less than 20, a "NPC-troll."

Posted by: jb on March 10, 2005 03:18 PM

lauraw,

/begin nerd trekkie voice

"You are WRONG, laura. The black man in the hallway was a mental projection of Uhura's desires, extracted from her mind by the telepathic salt creature, and projected onto the salt creature's body. Uhura saw what she wanted to see, not an actual member of the crew. That is why she said, at the time "Crewman, I don't remember ever seeing you before." You, laura are hoplessly inept at star trek geekery."

/nerdy trekkie voice.


; )

Posted by: hobgoblin on March 10, 2005 04:12 PM

In the Bloggernacle (the Mormon Blogosphere) participants are generally called 'bloggern', whether they blog themselves or just comment. Also 'bloggernackers,' but that wouldn't work as a general term while 'bloggern' would.

Posted by: Adam Greenwood on March 11, 2005 08:34 PM
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