Reply to T.A. Barnhart

[Note: There's a discussion taking place on Blue Oregon that has to be carried over here because they're blocking my posts.]

T.A. Barnhart: I did a little research on you.

I found that you’re a poet, that you support Barack Obama, and write on Blue Oregon. I also found that despite how learned you wish to make yourself appear by being ‘polite,’ you enjoy pointless minutia about the Oscars and writing an enthralling piece about your brother being on Hardball. Mostly, I found that you are a blind defender of Blue Oregon–and Kari.

You couldn’t seem to handle Steve Duin calling Kari “the Democratic errand boy who runs the Blue Oregon Glee Club.” Naturally, when I raised question about Kari and Blue Oregon, you responded fervently.

You said, “Kari makes it clear in posts & comments when he writes on a topic concerning a client.” What’s the threshold for ‘concerning a client?’ According to you, Kari’s post about Gordon Smith’s trackers following Merkley does not concern a client–even though Kari’s client is Jeff Merkley.

Sorry to name-call, but that’s how the English language works. There’s Democrats, Republicans, and yes, there are sheeple. Your blind support for Kari and Blue Oregon make you a perfect example of one.

But you are also a hypocrite. Case in point, your ‘A Chicken Comes Home to Roost’ post. You called me a name caller; I wonder what some would call you for posting a picture of Gordon Smith looking in the mirror at O.J. Simpson?

What about for saying that child abuse gives Oregon GOP the ‘giggles?’ Where I might add, you deployed the word ’shit.’ My audience may be in the sixth grade, but yours never graduated from it.

You have quotes on the top of your poetry site. I found this one fitting for you:

“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.” -Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

Stop part of the sheeple on Blue Oregon, T.A.