[Yet another case of dj making accusations he can't back up with facts. -- P]

But now you’ve just gone and deleted my reply. Ah well, I can claim without regret that I’ve now met a coward square on and shamed him. Love the scalp; works well as a doormat.

[Except that, of course, I didn't delete your comment. Another lie by you. Man, they're piling up. -- P]

[Do I want to split hairs with you? No. What I want from my commenters is for them to have, oh, I don't know . . . how about some fucking clue whether they are telling the truth when they make an accusation about me. This comment shows that 1) you don't; and 2) you don't care. Ergo, do not be surprised if your comments do not appear here any more. I plan to print all the ones sitting in moderation, because they all reveal you to be a jackass, and I happen to have a few minutes to show my readers why. But in general, I have better things to do with my time than prove that some anonymous jackass is, in fact, an anonymous jackass. -- P]

Again, I have to wonder what the next line of right-wing horseshit will be now that you’ve exhausted so many, from the Schiavo memo to the ‘lonely Kerry’ dumbassery.

But the shoe is back on your foot, PaddyEff. I didn’t say *you* endangered Jamil Hussein. I didn’t even consider it–project much? My statement was a comment on the situation in Iraq creating victims out of anyone who cooperates with any American entity. Get it? But you apparently felt wounded by some arrow of guilt I didn’t even intend to fire and, in the same way you’re saying I lied, you lied. Flat out. I really don’t care to split such hairs, but having been treated with the petty shit, let me just point out the hilarity of you doing the exact same thing you accuse me of without bothering to wait even a full column inch. Good god, you’re a funny guy, Frey. I’ll have to ask my LA DA and PD friends to keep an eye out for you at the water cooler.

[So you didn't mean to imply that conservative bloggers are responsible for putting Hussein's life at risk when you said:

‘lefty handwringing’ about crushing dissent is invalid? Hardly. I wouldn’t give a brass farthing for the life of Jamil Hussein at this point. Such is the situation in Iraq that the AP should probably spirit him out of there. If he’s off the hook officially for speaking to the AP, give me your best bet on how long he, unofficially, stays off the hook. And I mean literally, the hook, as in being hung from a lamppost as happened in central Baghdad today.

Fine. I think most people would conclude that was your implication . . . but, fine.

As for your threat to escalate this debate into real life: yawn. It strikes me as unlikely that a jackass such as you have proven yourself to be could have the trust of anyone I'd care about. -- P]

warbloggery ringmaster PATTERICO

Stopped reading there. Why do these moonbat troll types have you pegged for a member of the wingnut collective, Patterico?

[Easy. They don't read me regularly. They rely on assumptions, which are false. They don't have their facts straight. Why, it sounds a lot like . . . what they accuse *me* of! -- P]

Jawa Report misread a post from Flopping Aces. There is no evidence I am aware of that Jamil Hussein is in custody.

Patterico is in fact too clever to make errors such as boldly asserting that Baghdad copper Jamil H. never existed. He called him an “alleged” cop in one post — nice touch, that alleged. You see it a lot in front of words like “mobster,” “pedophile,” etc. Works like a charm.

You see, folks, Patterico is the carnival barker, not the guy who actually takes your dollars while showing you a two-headed cow that’s in fact a one-headed cow with a big boil on its neck with eyes and horns painted on the boil. He leaves that kind of vulgar stable work to his trusted carny “geeks” — Malkin, Acie Floppie, Crittenden et al. Look over his site — in particular his links to those three and many other warbloggists who were quite emphatic is stating that Jamil Hussein was a chimera and the AP a bunch of pipers. Keeps his hands clean, you see. He was merely “linking” to the side acts — with a nice big “we shall see” of some sort affixed each time. No responsibility for the geeks’ wares. Just a polite and handy link … and then caveat emptor! Hey thanks, P.! Like the man once kinda said, “Why speak when you can nod, or nod when you can link?”

So let’s take a look at just one of Patter’s large crew of deputy carnies — Jules Crittenden — described by our Patter-Noster as “a valuable ally to bloggers trying to bring issues to the attention of Big Media. You should be reading his blog daily.”

OK. I will. Hmm. Lots of links to Patterico. … Wait. Here’s what Crittenden has to say about whether “alleged” cop on the beat Jamil Hussein, “allegedly” wearing the badge in a land where cop-killing is pretty much on ongoing grouse hunt, merits freedom, or the concern of freedom loving people, after his pending arrest (as of this posting he has reportedly been nabbed by the Iraqi M.O.I. — soon to be rebranded Iraqi M.O.Truth, doubtless, although apparently only Ministry of Alleged Information should pass Patter muster): Crittenden: “Provided Jamil isn’t an insurgent-loving propagandizing liar. Provided he actually exists.” (Crittenden continues to use “exist” and “Jamil” and so forth with sardonic quotes around these words — hey once on the limb, why not saw off the branch?).

So, Pitter-Patter’s “valuable ally” thinks a guy risking his life as a cop in a lawless death hole — oh dear, sorry, showing my bias about all that murder and car-bombing ‘n stuff; make that “alleged lawless death hole” — ought to be treated as a criminal because of his (alleged?!) thoughts and feelings (provided he actually “exists”) and, you know, get plunged down the memory trap (so that his actual existence could become alleged again — yeah, that’s the ticket). Now that’s Uh’Merikan! That’s what the boys are dying for. More industrial-strength Islamic Big Brotherism. Wasn’t this, uh, what Saddam was doing before he became a rope-straightening device? But hey, presto, no flies on Patter. He didn’t say it. “Valuable” ole Crittenden said it. Doo-tee-doo-tee-doo. Nobody here but us chickenhawks.

I dragged you, poor friends and new enemies, through this tedious exercise (one that could be repeated with Patter’s “valuable allies” till the two-headed cows come home) not to show you what a clever lad the Grand Patter-teer is. He can handle that just fine himself. I did it to let you know that the Patterists — all of them, the capo barker included — could not care less whether Jamil Hussein ends up dead in a ditch, could not care less whether anyone winds up dead in an alleged Iraqi ditch. Because it’s no longer about Jamil Hussein, or the Iraqi people, or the American GIs, or the AP stringers who are getting dead trying to do the brick and mortar work of democracy. It’s about the warbloggers, my friends. Now, at long last, it is all and only about them.

Let me hand off here to Mr. Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell), unalleged journalist, who took a bullet in the neck during the Spanish Civil War: “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”