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I smack Matt Bai.  He calls the wahmbulance.  I smack back.  Matt loses it.  Then, OF COURSE, the cheap shots.

Yeah, I’m a right-wing robot. very original. You should trot out the “beltway insider, never been outside of DC” line too, while you’re at it. Two things, Tim. One, please note that I am not going to stoop to remark on the irony of your preaching morality to me. Second, serious bloggers don’t post other people’s private communications on their blogs.

My response.

matt, read the post. no one is calling you a bigot or a racist. i am pointing out that your language is exactly the same as theirs. that’s different. i don’t know you. how could i know you are a bigot or a racist?

second, this is not private. it’s my wall on facebook, through which you reach 317 other people. you reach more now through my blog. i’d think that would be where you’d want to respond, i.e., in the forum in which i made the criticism.

sheesh, matt. touchy.

I forgot about Matt’s 460 Facebook friends.  I think I have a “Facebook Marketing” post for my Corporate Blog Review in this.  Stay tuned, Matt, maybe that one’ll freak you out, too.

UPDATE – So I guess Matt still thinks the Facebook Wall is private.

What you said is that I am either racist or too stupid to know what I’m saying. Either way, have the courage to stand behind it.

My response.

no, i said you are using the same language as jesse helms, which you must agree is bad, or you wouldn’t be objecting. i stand by that.

And then I link to my blog, this post, asking…

matt, why don’t you just comment at my blog, or is that not serious enough for you?

Maybe Matt Bai really is too stupid to realize what he’s doing, given that he thinks Facebook Walls are private, but I doubt it.  You don’t have to be a racist to blow the dog-whistle.  You just have to know that it will work.