The post she linked to is, easily, beneath contempt. Just write a mea culpa post and explain why. It looked like to me she was trying to get at the nastiness of that fool's comment, not promote what he was saying. For lack of one sentence stating the obvious to make sure she couldn't be conflated with his views, she's getting burned. It's akin to the "there's no sarcasm tag" conundrum. It's a technical foul, not a flagrant one.

Anyhow, she shouldn't quit over linking to someone else's stupidity. Lord, knows Glenn Reynolds wouldn't have a blog if that were the standard.

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was made, except perhaps by WKRN which has not rallied around her. NiT has been an impressive effort on all counts.

It's a technical foul, not a flagrant one.

Yeah, I sort of thought so, too. Regular readers would get her point, but drive-bys and drop-ins probably wouldn't. Most of the idiots attacking her probably know better, but there you go.

Eh...I would hate to be taken to task everytime I have linked or posted something unwise or the like(as defined by the internets intelligentsia). Sure, it looks like she is climbing up on the cross just a tad, but I liked her blog. Good, and for the most part civil, discourse.

Yeah, I sort of thought so, too. Regular readers would get her point, but drive-bys and drop-ins probably wouldn't. Most of the idiots attacking her probably know better, but there you go.

It's this sort of thing that regularly infuriates me more about the leftish side of the blogosphere rather than the right, especially the self-appointed and righteous "dumbass Southerner" finger-pointers who'd rather blame the victims of this society, rather than doing a ***damned thing to effect any real change.

A bunch of virtual passersby have created enough noise to make her working life difficult for her, and on the basis of "not much."

The Jesus General brigade has the scalp now of someone with not much power, and a middling amount of influence. What tremendous heterosexual machismo on display. Yeah, do absolutely nothing to harm people with real power and influence, and completely eviscerate those without. There's a winning strategy for you.

Thanks for wielding that leverage against someone who didn't deserve it, Patriot Boy. You only damaged a fairly small blogging community in the process. What a triumph against the forces of racism. Ooh. Owie. What a score for truth in media. You've really balanced the scales for the blogging community in Tennessee now. Here's a virtual moon pie for your big victory.

(By the way, did any of you bashing Brittney ever actually read Gilliard? He had much thicker metaphorical skin in his public life than the lot of y'all have. The only reason you went after Brittney because she was on a payroll -- she wasn't some winger like Smantix giving it away for free. Congrats. You got your effin' scalp, and it's probably worth all of $40K in salary for some third rate ABC affiliate in a state bordering the deep backwaters of this country. Be proud. Be so very proud. How's that campaign to browbeat the Cheney administration into submission working out for ya?)

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Yeah. I had my differences with Brittney way back when and wasn't a regular reader of her blog, but I've heard good buzz about her and no way should she have quit over this. I hope she'll reconsider. Seriously. There's just no 'there' there with some of the remarks people are making about her in comments.

[Edit] On the other hand, now that I've read more of her post, I guess I can understand where she's coming from. It would be difficult to serve as the paid blogger for one of the Big Three media outlets, especially one that harbors the likes of Steve Gill.

I'm sure she'll wind up blogging somewhere else, maybe someplace where she won't have to answer for as much corporate BS as the current gig.

Who here wants to bet Brit's replacement with be another right-leaning white man? I know I'd lay some serious odds.

Wading through the comments over at NiT and Tiny Cat Pants is some kind of hell. And so much for the wishful hope that all the hatemongers are on the right. Brittney has taken so much crap, I think there's some kind of awful lesson in the fact that the final straw came from the left.

Wow, I got a snarky pullquote, but the crapflood didn't quite follow.

Someone named Axel knows what motivates Jesus' General readers

Why, Mistuh Christian. Don't stand on ceremony, now. I've seen what you look like when you drop the ironic pose, wilting like a loosed magnolia petal when some third-tier bloggrrl from Tennessee's mighty "backwater" says some things that make your onion-thin skin pucker and shrivel. (Way to extort an apology from her, too. Is that R. Lee Ermey jag an act, or not?)

Feel free to call me Andy. You'll understand if I don't call you "sir."

And yeah, I know what motivates JG readers. I was one, up until this week, anyway.

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