Are you one of the probably 50 or so commenters at AmericaBlog who got banned or censored for calling John "AmericaBlog" Aravosis out on his latest hissy-fit? Well, let me invite you to the club, because you would never otherwise have known there were so many of us. BECAUSE HE DELETED US. You'll never see any of my comments over there, because while John is hacking down the grass roots lawn he's grown over there one member at a time with his out of touch tirades that have no bearing on us getting back the house, senate and presidency, he's also deleting honest comments from the comments section wholesale.
Can someone call him, and talk him in off the ledge?
He posed a question: Should Howard Dean be destroyed by a meteorite because he fired someone who was gay?
He said that the fired person was somehow a friend of his, which was supposedly to make us feel obligated to take his side. He didn't tell us the whole story. He just put it out there, and then started hacking out the comments of people who disagreed.
(Some disagreed louder than others.)
Come on! I'm gay too. I work for PrideFest. I walk in the AIDS walk. I have a partner of nearly a decade, and two of the gayest dogs you'll ever kick! And I ... and I'm sure you ... were one of the first people on the scene to celebrate and support this hot new 'Mo who was kicking ass and taking names when no one else was doing it. I've been there every day ... ever since.
But do we have to draw our weapons everytime some mary screws up and gets his gay ass fired? I mean, at least explain why he was replaced by another gay guy, if Dean is supposed to be such a fag-hater who deserves to be skewered!
Do we have to read three, four, five 10-paragraph hissy fits from John about how he got pissed on because he backed out of a panel on gay issues but wasn't allowed to make it all Gannon all the time?
Has John lost his fucking mind?
I mean, if he has - at least there's treatment.
My biggest fear is that John is one of those poor souls that just can't handle what little power having a huge, and might I say, nationally respected blog can result in.
It's almost as though he's being EVERYTHING I've ever heard him slay BUSH for being. Power-drunk, pushy, condescending, pugnacious.
My God, can we afford to lose him as an ally to some lunatic stage he might go through while he gets his sea legs back?
My question ... no my request ...
no...my PLEA...is that if anyone knows John well enough to break the bedroom door down and get him to put down the oreos, and listen to reason...to please talk him in off the ledge.
His voice is needed, wanted, loved.
But the hissy-fits about out-of-touch crap, and then shitting on his supporters who get bored with it, is going to be his undoing.