Has The BRAD BLOG Been Hijacked?

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Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

The following excerpt from a supposedly “private” e-mail has been “leaked” to agents of the international press:

To: “Brad Friedman” Brad.Friedman@cville.com
From: “Winter Patriot” wp112263@hotmail.com
Subject: “I wouldn’t wanna make a liar out of you…”

… and I DID hear you correctly when you said you can’t post on your own blog

so I have turned off all your permissions

temporarily of course —

you hope!

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Has The BRAD BLOG Been Hijacked?

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  1. 1)
    KestrelBrighteyes said on 7/9/2005 @ 8:53pm PT: [Permalink]

    We’ve created a monster! *L*

    Okay, so just to stay on topic – is this the thread where we say embarrassingly sacharine things about Brad or what?

    Just checkin…

  2. 2)
    Scott said on 7/10/2005 @ 10:25pm PT: [Permalink]

    Kestrel & Doug,

    I’m afraid that this was just an insider joke in good faith, I don’t think anything malicious was intended here.

    Unfortunately though, it brings up an important point we shouldn’t ignore.

    These type of chilling things are bound to happen, if big brother starts cracking down on the blogs.

    I hope to not be there when it does, but regardless that was some very good (albeit frightening) information you posted there.

    Scott

  3. 5)
    MikeyCan said on 7/10/2005 @ 7:58am PT: [Permalink]

    Okay, I feel a little foolish…
    I was a little rushed reading the BradBlog headlines this morning..
    I get it now! ;)))

  4. 6)
    Winter Patriot said on 7/10/2005 @ 9:02am PT: [Permalink]

    No! This is the thread where we wonder whether Steve and Winter were really moles all along and whether this so-called blogathon was really a trojan horse … this is the thread where we wonder whether Steve and Winter will ever give Brad his permissions again … or whether he will be doomed to sit on the outside and watch them ruin his blog … while he’s able to do nothing but comment from the cheap seats … and will they even let him do that? Or will they delete his comments? … And what will they do with the blog? Will they start using his color scheme for nefarious purposes? For example …

    That’s what this thread is about! 😉

  5. 7)
    Doug Eldritch said on 7/10/2005 @ 9:56am PT: [Permalink]

    Now what a surprise do we have here? Big Brother is attempting to silence the culmination of reporting happening…

    That tells me someone is very *UNCOMFORTABLE* about certain revelations coming about, which once come out will constitute the downfall of this fourth reich inspired administration.

    Pardon my french, but those of you against free speech are complete cowardly assholes. And you run home like little schoolgirls whenever the heat just gets too much….

    So, alleged "hospitable patriot" why don’t you come try taking down my blog?

    http://www.geocities.com/dougeldritchez/

    Or how about try taking down all the blogs while you’re at it, and hacking them down? The fall is coming too swiftly now, you can’t take them all out.

    Just to give even more uncomfortable formality to these cowardly hackers, I’ve posted the following links here…

    Check out who JACK ABRAMOFF, RALPH REED and all the folks are in bed with.

    http://dailydelay.blogspot.com

    http://seekgod.ca/cnp/ My god say no more!!! It’s the secretive and completely stupid council for national policy, who has been abused and used to no end with PNAC’s new wars.

    Wait…..Say now…who **controls** the voting processes currently, who’s the guy at the top?

    http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMa...eCompanies.htm

    Hey….That looks like Howard Ahmanson to me!! He’s paying the shots, and calling all the shots for companies ES&S, Sequoia, Diebold and other defeatists of democracy.

    And he’s nothing more than a charlaton who claimed to be "true christian", who decided one day all liberals or those not like him are evil.

    Then this man flipped his lid and decided only true "christians" should vote, and so Ralph Reed and the gospel train made it so.

    My my, what an entertaining man the christian mafia’s head speaker, JACK ABRAMOFF is though wouldn’t everyone agree?

    "Mr. Miller, who has been calling for months for the committee to investigate Mr. Abramoff and his lobbying for the islands, said in an interview that Mr. DeLay should be worried by the possibility of a
    criminal investigation of Mr. Abramoff’s activities on behalf of the Northern Marianas.

    "I wouldn’t be comfortable if I were him," Mr. Miller said of Mr. DeLay. "Clearly we’re talking about a close relationship with Abramoff." He said Mr. DeLay had been instrumental in blocking
    Congressional efforts to end labor abuses in the islands.

    A spokesman for the Justice Department, Bryan Sierra, said Tuesday that he was unaware of the committee’s request but said that "whenever we receive a letter like this, it is forwarded to the
    appropriate entity at Justice." Lawyers for Mr. Abramoff said through a spokesman that they had no comment. A spokeswoman for Mr. DeLay had
    no immediate comment.""

    http://tinyurl.com/bjble

    So to big brother: The secret’s already out, we the people have the first ammendment.

    Doug E.

  6. 10)
    KestrelBrighteyes said on 7/11/2005 @ 2:35am PT: [Permalink]

    Winter re:#2 – Aw, too bad, and here I was all prepared to get gushy ‘n’ stuff. Guess I’ll have to save my list of adjectives for another time.

    Ah well…

    I WILL say THIS: Mutilate Brad’s Blog, turn it into a permutation of what it once was, I don’t care – I’ll still support our noble Brad in his quest to wake the country from its media-induced coma…

    BUT –

    If you change the Blog’s color scheme to "hotdog stand" red and yellow, I SWEAR I will leave this blog FO-EVAH!

    (Nothing like a bit of drama first thing in the morning to get the juices flowing. I don’t do "indignant" very well, do I? *L*)

    Ah well..we could always fall back on the standard GOP finger-pointing mantra – IT’S BILL CLINTON’S FAULT!

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