Glenn Reynolds lies to me again – and again, and again UPDATE
Thu, Aug 28, 2008
UPDATE – I have emailed the general counsel’s office of the UT board.
Glenn Reynolds no likey being called out on his lies. He emails.
I’ve been a card-carrying Democrat and Libertarian in the past. I’ve never belonged to the Republican Party. It’s true that I don’t think much of Obama, especially on national security and particularly Iraq, though I’m not exactly a huge McCain fan. I’ve been quite critical of Republicans — just ask Rush Limbaugh, who went off on me in 2006 for saying that the GOP deserved to lose. And, heck, just look at what I’ve been saying about Ted Stevens and Don Young. My blog expresses my opinions, but I don’t run a political machine like Kos. If expressing my opinions in a blog is electioneering, then so is writing an oped critical of the war.
And really, I know your emails to me have gotten steadily testier, but isn’t emailing someone’s boss over a blog dispute a bit much?
Russo no likey being lied to. Really no likey.
emailing your boss is not a bit much. it is necessary.
you lied through your teeth. you are not a democrat, you are an arm of the mccain campaign and the RNC. your writing proves it in stark relief.
that’s fine. but if you do that from a taxpayer-funded institution, that is subsidized by my federal tax dollars because it is a non-profit, then i damn well want your employer to know.
it’s hypocritical enough for you to claim some bogus free marketeering cred while sucking off the public teat. that’s also fine. but if you do a single iota of this crap from your employer’s resources, i’m all over that. and so should your employer.
if a law student put a political sign on their bagel stand in the law school lobby, all hell would break loose. but you blogging 24/7 as an arm of the mccain campaign is somehow supposed to be just fine. bullshit.
i’m not stupid, glenn. your readers may be, but i’m not.
Glenn no likey again.
I’m not an arm of the McCain campaign, and I’m not campaigning for him. It’s true I’m not a Democrat, either.
And nobody complains about law students advertising their political affiliations.
I respond.
more lies. you left out quirky leftist.
listen up good here glenn. you’re being watched. if i were you, i’d be worried about your board, your university president, and anyone else at UT who has an interest in making sure the university complies with the IRS rules regarding non-profits.
and yeah, this email thread is getting blogged.
I just emailed this post and yesterday’s post to UT Law Dean Doug Blase, and the acting chancellor Jan Simek. Perhaps an enterprising young blogger with more traffic than me would like to start contacting Glenn’s board at UT. Perhaps.
Tags: glenn reynolds lies, instapundit lies, instaputz, university of tennessee
August 28th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Excellent work. Keep it up. He is indeed a shill for the Republicans, no matter what he claims. And, as you say, he is doing it on the taxpayer’s dime. It’s outrageous.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:25 am
you know what? i don’t care about glenn reynolds being a shill.
but being a shill on the taxpayer dime is wrong.
and i REALLY hate being lied to.
really hate it.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:34 am
The Putz has said some really shitty things – “more rubble, less trouble” – and deserves deserves a shellacking.
Looks like the whole shitty house of cards is coming down.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Um…universities are full of people with crazy, far out ideas — last i checked. and you know what? many of them have a decidedly political nature. Been to Berkeley much? I live across the bay from it, and trust me, those guys run plenty of political blogs “on the taxpayer’s dime”. And good for them.
yeah, i don’t like his passive-aggressive way of linking to people who are a whole lot more unhinged than you can get away with in polite society, but fuck it all if i want some dean to have any say in what he’s up to. whether the “tax payers” are paying for it or not. cause, if it were up to the “tax payers”, there wouldn’t be much good research to go along with the bad blogging at all…
August 29th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Your points are valid and welcome, but would it kill you to use standard capitalization? It somewhat undercuts your arguments when they are presented in such a casual manner.
But please, keep up the fight!
August 31st, 2008 at 1:11 am
Astounded as I am to hear a college professor refer to his “boss,” I have to play my annual “agree with Glenn” card. Academic freedom is, or should be, a close second to freedom of speech. The whole idea of both is that it’s best to let idiots say their idiotic things so we know whom to ignore.
Besides, ratting him out to the boss, absent overwhelming evidence that it’s necessary, is petty and demeaning to everyone. I can remember back in the dark days of ‘02 when Susan “Steno Sue” Schmidt, then of the WaPo, burned a critic by e-mailing his boss to ask if criticising her was in the guy’s job description. (Come to think of it, that guy was at a college, too — in administration, I think.) The major players of the time, led by Media Whores Online (R.I.P.), seconded by my modest self, lit into her for playing dirty. I still feel that way.