All I’m trying to point out, the same thing Mimus Pauly pointed out in the link I provided about, is that people are making a lot of accusations without any evidence. There are all of these elaborate conspiracy theories about “motivations” and “presumptions” behind why Dkos or MyDD highlight this or that, and no evidence.

As far as Russo, I don’t know him, but he’s always come across in his postings on his blog as either an asshole or unhinged, and that was long before I ever read anything on Dkos about him.

The point could not have been missed worse than if Cheney himself had shot at it. Others referred to Llorens-Sar as a “top lieutenant”…high lieutenant – whatever. Point being he was a front page poster and pretty much Kos’ bulldog who would literally bite your head off for going “off message”.

Your wanting to compare your working for a company that uses another company that did some bad shit to Armando being a partner in a law firm? Seems off to me.

There is no vindictiveness versus these guys. People are merely pointing out the bullshit that has gone down and the hypocisy of it. Did you not pay ANY attention during the Hackett/Brown primary? Maybe a quick search of OH02, BSB, and here would be in order. These guys shit all over Ohio and you are OK with that. I’m not.

Quasi-unethical stuff with stocks? You are kidding, right? The point is that the stock stuff is very similar to the politics stuff when it comes to pumping and dumping. 2 days later Kos changes his mind and asks Hackett to “stand down”? Give me a fucking break! Your DUI analogy is poor. Of course I wouldn’t say that – and I hope you didn’t!

If I remember correctly, Kos himself chose to front page the Russo info…and Armando chimed right in. So they don’t seem to live by your same standard there and it is what I mean when I say reap what you sow.

He quit. He ran off crying and tried to muster as much sympathy as he could get. The lemmings gave it to him.

So you can be an apologist for them and we can agree to disagree. Fine by me.

PS – I don’t bother with Kos since the Hackett flip flop, but you are probably right that there are probably not posts espousing the virtues of Walmat. That would be dumb now wouldn’t it? He did, though, have alot to say on Kelo. You should check some of that out sometime.

The company I work for uses Choicepoint, ya know, the company that helped “alter” the felon voter rolls in FLA back in 2000 to help Bush win the state. Just like it isn’t Armando’s firm, and he can’t dicate the clientel, I’m not the boss, and I can’t say, “what the hell, I’m not working with them.” Unfortunately, I have to bills to pay, so I can’t take an ethical stand and quit my job over the hiring of services from a company I don’t care for.

I really do not understand the vindictiveness of people out to get Markos, Jerome, Armando, etc. These are blogs that people choose to or not to visit, choose to or not to read. So Markos talks a lot about Mark Warner, so what, it’s his freaking blog. You don’t like Warner, don’t read the post. So Jerome did some quasi-unethical stuff regarding stocks, great, so did Jim Kramer, and he’s doing nicely on MSNBC. If I got a DUI when I was in college, should I not be allowed to blog because my character is suspect?

And he did not fold up shop and go home. A new batch of front page writers at DKos are, from what I understand, brought in each year. His time was up, and he started blogged on his own at http://www.swordscrossed.org/ and now occasionally blogs at Dkos as an alum.

No, I don’t feel duped, because the majority of people I know who are of my same political idealogy don’t have the luxury to pick and choose A) their occupation and/or B) who their business/firm works with based on political idealogy. I have a personal life and I have a professional life, and like most adults I can separate the two, even when there are conflicts. As long as my ideals and beliefs are never compromised, then I have no complaint, and as far as I’m concerned, with regards to what Armando posted, regardless of his tone or attitude, I never saw and indication of compromise, and until someone actually proves it, the accusations are meritless.

You know what? I got the information direct to me. I did nothing with it. It was shopped all around. Armando was going down regardless of what I said or did. If you think there is nothing there, then why would he fold up shop and take his pen and pad home? Of course there is something to it, on both sides. The bottom line is the guy reaped what he sowed – and he sowed a ton of vitriolic filth.

There is nothing wrong with repping corporations…but not the ones who appear to be on the opposite freakin’ spectrum from you politically. So maybe shill was a bad word. I must have saved up some of his vitriol to use back on him.

And don’t feel sorry for this bastard. He pulled the same hijinks on one of our own here in Ohio. He had it coming.

You might want to check this link regarding Armando and Walmart. If you got your (mis)information from the National Review, well, that’s your fault. Calling him a shill for Walmart is about as gross a misrepresenation as calling George Bush a “compassionate” conservative.

Meanwhile, Armando is taking the “big box” blogging thing a bit too literally.