I begin this post by stating emphatically that neither Darren Huff nor retired Lt Commander Walter Fitzpatrick had anything, whatsoever, to do with the murder of Mr. Miller, Monroe County Election Commissioner and 1st District Republican Chair, over the weekend of July 18/19, 2010.

Two extremely demented Obama supporters were hard at work first thing Monday morning attempting to connect Mr. Miller’s death with Darren’s case and Walt’s case, both are separate. Their only goal was to impugn the character and integrity of these two fine upstanding gentlemen and “plant” false seeds in the patriots mind that Darren and Walt are dangerous radical right-wingers.  Don’t buy it! Neither one of these decent gentlemen are radical anything.

One of these two idiots attempted to post his asinine falsehoods here at The T-Room, but we moderate, and refused to publish or take part in spewing such malicious lies.

Instead, we made an attempt to write this idiot to learn what he knew –

—– Original Message —–

From: Helen Tansey

To: XXXXXX@yahoo.com

Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 12:48 PM

Subject: T-Room Response to your post

Dear Xxxxxxx,

The T-Room has received your post and finds it alarming. How on earth do you correlate what is happening w/the Grand Jury to this extraordinary tragedy?

Please, I am sincere. I would very much like to learn how you connected these two events together? Do you live in Madisonville? Monroe County?

I’d appreciate a courteous response and wish to learn from you, sir.

Thanks in advance.

Helen

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We received a reply from the Postmaster telling us that no such email existed. So, we ran an IP address check and learned that a John Smith from Washington State owned the address. Big Clue JOHN, which we all know is not your real name, but The T-Room, will not take part in your smear campaign. EVER! 

What was disappointing to learn is that other blogs allowed comments made by these two idiots public.  This is where I get confused. All political/policymaking blog owners are fully aware of deceitful trolls, who make a living spewing falsehoods, so why on earth would these blog owners allow such unfounded and malicious attacks go public? By doing so, they took part in the character assassination of these two fine men.  

Blog owners have a responsibility to manage their threads and their posters. If they fail to do so, they affect others who take these responsibilities seriously.

The T-Room does not allow for just anyone to post. We make every effort to moderate at all times, and we’d never hesitate to boot a poster if he/she were here to employ what I call the four Deadly D’s – disrupt, dismiss, distract and/or divert. We respect our community of lurkers and posters and want them to enjoy whatever the discussion is at hand.

Personally and professionally, I find this lack of blog management troubling. Moderating a blog is as simple as pushing a button. So, where is the difficulty?

Over the last several months, I’ve watched other oddities going on in the world of political blogging.  One or two new posters arrive on the scene of a patriotic blog – not a campaign blog, mind you – work their charm and soon enough begin to regularly employ the four Deadly D – disrupt, dismiss, distract and/or divert – tactics.

One of these blogs once had several thousands of hits a day, now they have so few the owner hardly posts threads anymore. I’ll be surprised if this blog is still around in three months.

Another blog, once ranked #1 by WordPress, saw a huge wave of regular posters abandon the site because of the four deadly “d” tactics employed by one single poster. The blog owner rarely disagreed or challenged this poster, although his community asked him too on several occasions, but no such luck. This new poster has effectively turned what was once considered the “go to” patriotic blog with hundreds of posters into an outright Republican campaign blog with few posters chiming in. Yet, it was this blog owner’s strong community of patriotic posters who throttled his site, on more than one occasion, to being rated #1. 

If you could have read some of the misguided rantings from this one poster you too would have left the site. No one blogs wanting to be torn apart, ridiculed or lied to by other posters.

The richness in blogging is to build a community of diverse political thinkers who share certain ideas in common, such as patriotism, usurpation of the WH, freedom, taking our beloved country back. They don’t power up their pc’s to read malicious lies, propaganda or ridicule about whomever let alone one another.

Bloggers play a unique and extremely important role in the daily life of communication – they share intel, cross post stories, raise $$$, recruit phone bankers, pass on important details to a story, research, support one another and goodness knows so much more. Building a community takes time and effort. Ask Drudge. He may not allow comments but he’s certainly built a powerful news source in the blogosphere by managing his site. This didn’t happen by accident. He worked at for many years.

With campaign season rapidly approaching, starting mid-August, all of us blogger’s will be inundated by idiots like the two mentioned above. We need to be on the lookout for the onslaught of Obama trolls, Organizing for America trolls, Republican trolls, and PAC trolls. Their only goal will be to spew their propaganda no matter the cost. These campaigns have already identified the “go to” blogs they need to infiltrate and it will soon begin in earnest. Management of our threads will be critical; especially given the critical nature of this year’s election.

If what some witnessed the other day by two such twisted trolls is a sign of things to come, then we blog owners will have our hands full managing our sites and threads.  

So, be a responsible blog owner and moderate your threads. Who knows the next character assasination attempt may just be you.