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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:17 PM
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Kos's Armando, "outed" by stalker, quits posting
Edited on Wed Jun-14-06 02:18 PM by BurtWorm
Disturbing story. Leopold related. An example of the left not just eating its own, but tossing its own to the wolves of the right. The author of most of the following is Armando himself:

http://www.swordscrossed.org/?p=182

Darrell Gahm describes what happened:

this madness began with the posting of a poorly sourced diary by one jiggy flunknut. In this diary, Armando, as well as others, called into question the veracity of the sources (in this case Wayne Madsen) and the factual impossibilities of what was being presented.

Then the diary hit the recommended diaries list.

At this point, Armando was rightfully pissed and posted a diary entitled “Stupid Daily Kos.” Unfortunately, this diary was subsequently deleted and, as such, I cannot locate any cached instances of it.

I am working from memory here, but the crux of Armando’s diary was that people need to be more aware of sourcing before they hit that recommend button. He indicated that Wayne Madsen, Capitol Hill Blue and, I believe, Justin Leopold at truthout were not reliable sources of information. Of course, this was stated in the indomitable Armando style, and pissed a few off.

In response to Armando’s diary, the original diarist posted a new diary containing Armando’s private information, which was quickly deleted and the poster was banned.

This series of events took place between May 21st and May 22nd. Through my Google searching, I found a link to a truthout.org posting by one shaggyda (I will not link to this post, as it contains the information in the NRO posting), dated 5/23/06. The text of this post and the allegations contained within mirror the NRO posting to an uncanny degree.



...

It is clear what occurred here. Upset that his theory had been debunked, Flunknut swore to revenge himself on me. He set about to dig up dirt. Apparently discovering my heretofore unpublished identity (indeed, up to that time no blog had published the information or the links Flunknut had dedicated himself to discovering), Flunknut posted comments in blogs with the information regarding me.

A few days later, because of Wikipedia’s system of publishing, Flunknut decided to deliberately harass and attempt to cause harm by publishing the information in a so-called biography of Armando in Wikipedia. As the previous experience with John Siegenthaler has demonstrated, Wikipedia is extremely vulnerable for use by those whose sole intention is to cause harm and malign. Flunknut’s biography was deleted by other Wikipedia users and reposted by Flunknut many many times over the following days. Finally, I deleted Flunknut’s Wikipedia post and left a message labelling this concerted attempt to disseminate information about him as a harassment campaign. This caught the eye of a Wikipedia editor who e-mailed me. I promptly detailed all of the above information to this Wiki editor who caused the biography to be put into deletion discussion.

There things stood, but Flunknut was determined to exact his revenge. He shopped the information hoping to find a taker. Apparently, he was unable to find any until the date of the Yearly Kos convention was nearly at hand. But then Steve Spruell, who writes for the National Review Online, in his own words, saw an opportunity...


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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:19 PM
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1. What are you talking about?
The left didnt "eat its own." Kossacks rallied around Armando. Almost to a man/woman.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:20 PM
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2. I'm talking about jiggy flunknut and an unnamed "blogger"
who were pissed that Armando debunked their theory.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:22 PM
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3. wonder if Armando will be suing
something really should be done... that's criminal
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:25 PM
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4. it is unconscionable and frankly gutter emotions getting the best of
people, I really hate to see this type of stuff go down in the fragile community that we have on the internets.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:28 PM
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5. We're making the perfect, the enemy of the good.......
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:29 PM
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:32 PM
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7. LOL!!! Wayne wants to take the gloves off????
Edited on Wed Jun-14-06 02:32 PM by stop the bleeding
Seems like he should cover his ass with them, based on the amount of times he has it(ass) chewed off in the past for his wild reports.

What a bunch of hot air

(DUng) - is that us?? LOL I love it ;)
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Howardx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:36 PM
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8. seems a little coincidental doesnt it?
tie that article (which i believe predates the outing)in to the fact that armando was calling madsen an unreliable source.
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:39 PM
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11. What about WM talking about the missing $$$ from Dean
man he all but calls Kos and Trippi(sorry if spelled wrong) thieves, I know he is "reporting" but if I was Kos and Trippi I would talk to my lawyer about possible slandering - could be stretching but that is not cool at all to make those kind of assumptions.
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:38 PM
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10. Haha, yep.
I think his feelings are still hurt, the wanker. ;)
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Howardx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:58 PM
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13. i guess i broke some rule by posting that
n/t
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:38 PM
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9. Our own attacking our own?
Happens constantly in this party.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:58 PM
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12. What is this, a soap opera? (nt)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:01 PM
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15. As BurtWorm Turns...
:evilfrown:
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:01 PM
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14. If you are reading this Armando
Good luck. I don't comb DKos that carefully, so I totally missed this story. But strength and good luck to you.
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:05 PM
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16. Wow, just wow
:popcorn:
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:09 PM
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17. My opinion: People are doing the same to Jason Leopold -
If he is wrong, he is wrong. Attacking him, attacking truthout.org is far from helpful when we ARE A FRAGILE online, alternative journalistic community...

Just MHO...
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 04:03 PM
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18. Criticizing is not "attacking"
the way outing or stalking is attacking.
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