In Which CNN Contributor Dana Loesch Calls Me a ‘Stalker’

Doesn’t handle criticism well
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If you haven’t already, be sure to read STLActivist’s devastating LGF article on the cynical self-promoting tactics of CNN contributor/Breitbart editor Dana Loesch: How Dana and Chris Loesch Exploited the Conservative Movement … Again.

As we’ve seen before, Loesch and husband Chris do not respond well to criticism; their usual reaction is to spew insults and conspiracy theories, and yesterday that’s exactly what she did … again. “Jazzy” is Loesch’s nickname for me, because apparently in her world having a successful career as a jazz musician is something to be ashamed of. (No, I don’t really understand it either.)

That “TOS abuse” the “conservative army exposed” is Loesch’s brain-dead conspiracy theory that I’ve organized a massive secret campaign to silence conservatives on Twitter, by “abusing” Twitter’s “block and report” feature. I haven’t, of course — this conspiracy is completely imaginary. The last thing I want is to silence people like Loesch, who do such a great job of exposing themselves every time they tweet or post an article at breitbart.com.

But if I’ve committed “Terms of Service abuse” on Twitter as Loesch accuses, it seems odd that my account has never been suspended — while the accounts of many people associated with Loesch, including her husband, have been suspended more than once. Someone’s definitely abusing Twitter: Loesch and her deranged right wing followers, who stalk, harass, and defame people they’ve identified as enemies.

“Stalker” is just the latest hateful insult from Loesch; previously she’s called me a racist and a child molester.

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1 freetoken  Sun, May 6, 2012 11:52:09am

Dana is desperate.

2 gwangung  Sun, May 6, 2012 11:53:12am
“Stalker” is just the latest hateful insult from Loesch; previously Loesch has called me a racist

White girl calls white boy "racist" while people of color laugh their ass off at her.

3 Gus  Sun, May 6, 2012 11:55:46am

Conservative army! Right. The freaks that got banned from LGF 4 years ago or more. They're still talking about some stupid #TwitterGulag. The rest are still pushing a dumb conspiracy that Charles led a "block and report for spam" move against Chris Loesch. Was even quickly looking at some other conservative goof ball that got suspended from Twitter who was blogging about how it was like being in a "POW camp." Never heard of the loser and his blog is about 1 month old. The dweebs really love putting things in military terms. Breitbart.com is certainly a freak magnet. Both in its audience and the people that "write" for them.

4 PhillyPretzel  Sun, May 6, 2012 11:58:21am

This reminds me of some of the childish pranks pulled when I was still on AOL, especially what was considered terms of service violations.

5 ghazidor  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:01:29pm

Funny how the person who over reacts to every perceived insult with numerous tweets directed at you and then obsessively responds to every comment you make that she thinks may in some way reflect upon her is calling you the stalker.

I guess we have all somehow slipped into bizarro world without even noticing...

6 ghazidor  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:04:59pm

re: #4 PhillyPretzel

This reminds me of some of the childish pranks pulled when I was still on AOL, especially what was considered terms of service violations.

Too old a reference for most people here, maybe if you discussed what happened on Yahoo Chat a few more people would understand... lol ;)

7 Obdicut  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:08:04pm

It's really weird to me that this woman is a news personality. It's even weirder that a lot of people still think of CNN as part of some 'liberal mainstream media' when they hire people like her, Beck, and Erikson.

8 dragonfire1981  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:09:59pm

I think we need to invent an evil, conniving alter ego for Charles.

9 Digital Display  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:11:11pm

re: #7 Obdicut

It's really weird to me that this woman is a news personality. It's even weirder that a lot of people still think of CNN as part of some 'liberal mainstream media' when they hire people like her, Beck, and Erikson.

She doesn't get it. Fox news is hiring..Fox Nation Associate editor would be a perfect career choice.

10 Killgore Trout  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:12:09pm

re: #7 Obdicut

It's really weird to me that this woman is a news personality. It's even weirder that a lot of people still think of CNN as part of some 'liberal mainstream media' when they hire people like her, Beck, and Erikson.

It's just the state of modern journalism. They get an idiot from the left and an idiot from the right and report the derpings without analysis or context.

11 Obdicut  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:12:19pm

re: #8 dragonfire1981

What's the evil version of the ponytail? Maybe a mullet, or a rat-tail.

Image: polls_100_1584.jpg_4701_244564.jpeg_answer_6_xlarge.jpeg

12 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:12:59pm

re: #11 Obdicut

What's the evil version of the ponytail? Maybe a mullet, or a rat-tail.

Image: polls_100_1584.jpg_4701_244564.jpeg_answer_6_xlarge.jpeg

Rat tails beg for a pair of scissors.

13 PhillyPretzel  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:14:51pm

re: #11 Obdicut

re: #12 Mostly sane, most of the time.

::: scissors on the ready ::: Did someone call for a "hairdresser?"

14 Obdicut  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:15:18pm

re: #10 Killgore Trout

It's just the state of modern journalism. They get an idiot from the left and an idiot from the right and report the derpings without analysis or context.

I think you're slightly off there-- she's hired by CNN as an analyst. So she 'analyzing' the news and turns it into derpings. Who's the idiot from the left that you see as equivalent to Loesch?

I do agree that most of the time, the mainstream media engages in the stupid, pathetically obviously wrong belief that the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.

15 dragonfire1981  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:17:35pm

We could make it a comic book series:

Charles "the Hammer" Johnson and his ponytail brigade vs the Conservative Army...of DOOM!

16 Digital Display  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:18:11pm

re: #13 PhillyPretzel

re: #12 Mostly sane, most of the time.

::: scissors on the ready ::: Did someone call for a "hairdresser."

Uh oh! There was a time in the 80's I had the tail..You have to able to pull off the tail look.. I thought I was pretty cool.. What the Hell was I thinking?

17 Coracle  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:19:38pm

Twitter has enabled supposedly grown adults to revert to junior-high levels of social interaction. Cliques and name calling on the level of bathroom graffiti. It helps nothing, teaches nothing, convinces no one.

18 Charles Johnson  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:24:05pm

Test...

19 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:30:04pm

Test? Is there a prize?

20 PhillyPretzel  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:30:52pm

re: #19 ggt

Yes. Your GPA will increase. //

21 freetoken  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:31:39pm

Some other election results around Europe could be indicative:

[...]

Serbia

BELGRADE // Serbians voted yesterday for a new president and parliament in polls pitting pro-EU President Boris Tadic against nationalist Tomislav Nikolic amid grinding economic woes.

[...]

Surveys have put Mr Tadic and Mr Nikolic neck-and-neck in the presidential race, and their parties are also running close in the parliamentary elections with surveys giving them about 30 per cent of the vote each.

[...]

German

BERLIN // Exit polls in Germany show that voters in the country's northernmost state have likely ousted a governing centre-right government made up of the same parties as Chancellor Angela Merkel's federal coalition.

An exit poll late yesterday for Germany's public broadcaster ARD says the conservative Christian Democrats secured 30.5 per cent and their coalition partner, the Free Democrats, slid to 8.5 per cent in Schleswig-Holstein state. It says the opposition Social Democrats got 29.5 per cent of the vote, the Greens 14 per cent and the upstart Pirates party achieved seats in the legislature for the first time with 8 per cent. A party representing the Danish minority secured 4.5 per cent.

While the opposition failed to secure an outright majority, the Social Democrats could form a coalition government with the Greens and the party of the Danish minority.

Merkel's coalition is waning, but the big surprise is that the Pirates have come on so strongly.

The nationalists in Serbia will probably find energy from the growing nationalist/nazi movement in Greece.

22 Charles Johnson  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:31:53pm

re: #17 Coracle

Twitter has enabled supposedly grown adults to revert to junior-high levels of social interaction. Cliques and name calling on the level of bathroom graffiti. It helps nothing, teaches nothing, convinces no one.

True, Twitter does enable this kind of behavior, but it can also be every useful - for example, when some kind of large breaking news event happens. If you follow serious people, you can get a lot of good links and information.

23 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:32:55pm

re: #20 PhillyPretzel

Yes. Your GPA will increase. //

Maybe, I'm feeling fuzzy.

24 Obdicut  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:36:25pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

And Frank Conniff is hilarious.

25 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:38:33pm

A Ban on Kissing? The Right-Wing Sexual Fears in New Abstinence Bills
Attempts to ban talk of birth control and homosexuality from classrooms reveal conservatives' deepest sexual fears.

Here we have that classic conservative view of homosexuality as a corruptive idea rather than an inherent identity; as a social virus — one that can be inoculated against through silence (or, as some of us might prefer to call it, censorship) — rather than an inborn reality. (What always strikes me about this attitude is that it seems implicitly to hold that gay sex is so awesome that just hearing about it will make folks want to try it; otherwise, it wouldn’t pose such a threat, now, would it?) It also gets at that right-wing sore spot: The possibility of sex for love or pleasure, rather than procreation.

Because no one would have sex at all if they never heard the world "sex".

26 HappyBenghazi  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:39:30pm
27 Coracle  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:40:15pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

It can't be beat for the spread of breaking information. I recall a few years ago Twitter reports of earthquakes beating the detection of tremors in the far field. And it and facebook's power in alerting and tying together activists can't be denied. As a forum for messaging, debate, and discourse, Twitter is unsuited.

28 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:40:22pm
29 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:41:32pm

Brat Puppy is coming home soon from his show tour. I'm actually kinda excited.

30 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:43:02pm
31 dragonath  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:43:48pm

Greek vote totals from the Ministry of the Interior:

[Link: ekloges.ypes.gr...]

What a fractured mess!

32 Obdicut  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:44:12pm

re: #30 ggt

Let's grab a time machine and recruit some suffragettes to help out.

33 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:45:16pm
34 Killgore Trout  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:45:21pm

Death from above!
Airstrike kills senior al-Qaeda leader in Yemen

Yemeni officials say an airstrike has killed a top al-Qaeda leader who was wanted in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. The airstrike resembled earlier U.S. drone attacks, but the U.S. did not immediately confirm it.

Local official Abu Bakr bin Farid said Fahd al-Quso was killed Sunday along with an aide in an airstrike in the southern Shabwa province. The Yemeni Embassy in Washington confirmed the report.

35 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:45:41pm

re: #32 Obdicut

Let's grab a time machine and recruit some suffragettes to help out.

May be necessary before long.

36 Obdicut  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:46:56pm

re: #31 Be Zorch, Daddio

Holy crap, the Golden Dawn's emblem even resembles the swastika. I can't believe Greeks are voting for those assholes. The last time fascism came to Greece's shores, Greeks fought it tooth and nail.

37 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:48:36pm
38 HappyBenghazi  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:49:36pm
39 freetoken  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:52:53pm

Paul wins majority of delegates from Maine GOP

With Mitt Romney's nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters wrested control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said as the two-day convention neared its end Sunday. The results gave the Texas congressman a late state victory.

[...]

RON PAUL!!

40 Ben G. Hazi  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:54:34pm

re: #32 Obdicut

Let's grab a time machine and recruit some suffragettes to help out.

Just go down to Suffragette City...


/wam bam thank you ma'am
41 Obdicut  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:54:43pm

re: #39 freetoken

As I understand it, this is is all just a spoiler move because the 'certification committee' or some such at the convention can just refuse to seat them.

42 ghazidor  Sun, May 6, 2012 12:57:21pm

re: #7 Obdicut

It's really weird to me that this woman is a news personality. It's even weirder that a lot of people still think of CNN as part of some 'liberal mainstream media' when they hire people like her, Beck, and Erikson.

CNN has made a deliberate move to include the voice of rightwing extremist wingnuts in their broadcast news segments in the belief that this will help them to be seen as centrist and non-biased instead of as part of the "liberal lamestream media."

No doubt they were mainly influenced by the viewer numbers that Fox News commands, and were hoping to steal some of Fox's share by emulating them. Unfortunately for them it isn't working, their market share of the viewing audience continues to decline.

Perhaps as I believe to be true, allowing rightwing pundits a far larger share of air time without any fact checking of those pundit's quite often less than truthful statements and the almost total lack of expressed counter-point views to their blatant dishonesty has damaged CNNs credibility with the viewers it already had instead of gaining it new converts.

They certainly aren't the first news organization to fall for the "equal time must be given to both sides of every issue in order to be fair, even if one of those sides is completely batshit insane," fallacy of what balanced and intelligent reporting actually means

43 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:03:18pm

re: #42 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You

CNN has made a deliberate move to include the voice of rightwing extremist wingnuts in their broadcast news segments in the belief that this will help them to be seen as centrist and non-biased instead of as part of the "liberal lamestream media."

No doubt they were mainly influenced by the viewer numbers that Fox News commands, and were hoping to steal some of Fox's share by emulating them. Unfortunately for them it isn't working, their market share of the viewing audience continues to decline.

Perhaps as I believe to be true, allowing rightwing pundits a far larger share of air time without any fact checking of those pundit's quite often less than truthful statements and the almost total lack of expressed counter-point views to their blatant dishonesty has damaged CNNs credibility with the viewrs it already had instead of gaining it new converts.

They certainly aren't the first news organization to fall for the "equal time must be given to both sides of every issue in order to be fair, even if one of those sides is completely batshit insane," fallacy of what balanced and intelligent reporting actually means

Why can I never remember the proper name for that fallacy?

Moral Relativism?

44 freetoken  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:04:23pm

re: #43 ggt

It's not so much a fallacy but a marketing ploy.

45 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:04:30pm

WOMEN'S CAUCUS ADVOCACY
IN ICC NEGOTIATIONS

It is difficult to understand how the debate about the crime of enforced pregnancy has become a debate about abortion. National laws which criminalize the termination of pregnancy are not violations under international law and thus would not come within the ICC's jurisdiction. The issue of abortion has no place in the current discussions about the crime of enforced pregnancy.

The term "forced pregnancy" has been repeatedly used in the UN system. The need for a particularly effective response to this crime is articulated, for example, in the documents adopted by consensus at the UN conferences in Vienna and Beijing. As recently as April, l998, the UN Commission on Human Rights reaffirmed that forced pregnancy is among the gravest violations of humanitarian and human rights law.

46 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:06:53pm

re: #44 freetoken

It's not so much a fallacy but a marketing ploy.

Yes, but there is a name for it. . . .false equivalence?

47 Charles Johnson  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:07:00pm

re: #36 Obdicut

Holy crap, the Golden Dawn's emblem even resembles the swastika. I can't believe Greeks are voting for those assholes. The last time fascism came to Greece's shores, Greeks fought it tooth and nail.

The Golden Dawn logo is obviously intended to evoke a swastika:

Image: goldendawnlogo.jpg

48 Felineghazi, Caliph of the Conservative Jihad  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:07:17pm

Great. Now I have a mental image of the GOP as the witches in _MacBeth_.
Eye of Newt, Toe of FOX, bat wing... what else are we missing?

49 freetoken  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:07:59pm

re: #46 ggt

Well, CNN isn't trying to construct a logical argument, so we can't evaluate them as doing such.

50 Charles Johnson  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:08:24pm

And of course, like many European fascist groups, they've switched their main focus from Jews to Muslims in recent years. Has Pamela Geller endorsed them yet?

51 freetoken  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:10:46pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

While Greeks may despise Hitler's Nazi party, that is because that party was German, and there is a long, long running identity war involving some Greeks who despise the blond haired blue-eyed Germanic tribes.

However, during the past few centuries there has been plenty of ugly nationalism in Greece and projection of this abroad.

52 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:11:30pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

The Golden Dawn logo is obviously intended to evoke a swastika:

Image: goldendawnlogo.jpg

It is a Greek Key motif (or meander)--used, in this instance, to invoke the swastika.

Like so many motif's have been around since cave drawings, and their meanings change arbitrarily.

53 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:11:47pm

re: #49 freetoken

Well, CNN isn't trying to construct a logical argument, so we can't evaluate them as doing such.

ah!

54 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:12:31pm

re: #52 ggt

It is a Greek Key motif (or meander)--used, in this instance, to invoke the swastika.

Like so many motif's have been around since cave drawings, and their meanings change arbitrarily.

seems it is also the name of a Protein Structure!

55 jaunte  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:16:21pm

Does Loesch have any actual journalistic credentials, or is she purely a self (and Breitbart) creation?

56 dragonath  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:18:51pm

Is the UN is trying to troll the Agenda 21!!!! crowd?

US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations

57 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:19:28pm

Have a great afternoon all!

58 jaunte  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:21:37pm

PZ Myers is annoyed with another pseudo-journalistic enterprise, the Huffington Post:

What the hell is this?

I've seen woo on HuffPo before, but @EllenGraceJones takes the cake. Guess what? Darwin was wrong, and we need to update our model of evolution, she says. That’s a remarkable claim; you might be wondering who this person is who sees so far beyond what mere scientists have found.

She’s a fashion editor.
.........

I’ve been saying it for a long time, but I’ll repeat it for you again: the Huffington Post is a mega-sleazy slushpile of credulous crap and unedited stream-of-consciousness burbling from idiots. It is evolving, though: it’s evolving to fill the niche left behind by the demise of Weekly World News.

59 freetoken  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:21:39pm

re: #56 Be Zorch, Daddio

From your link:

James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.

Even among self-declared liberal Democrats, meeting with a UN investigator is a potato too hot to handle.

And yes, nut-o-sphere has jumped on this topic already.

60 freetoken  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:25:28pm

In case Sergey shows up later, or for anyone else interested in this arcanely wonderful issue, Tom Verenna has compiled his recent critiques of Bart Ehrman into a PDF: Did Jesus Exist? The Trouble with Certainty in Historical Jesus Scholarship

61 engineer cat  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:27:03pm

How Well Austerity Is Working

Sunday's election in Schleswig-Holstein didn't go well for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives

Hollande defeats Sarkozy in French presidential race

Greek exit poll projects extreme right Golden Dawn party wins enough votes to enter parliament. According to the Party's charter, "only Aryans in blood and Greeks in descent can be candidate members of Golden Dawn". The charter also puts the leader in total control of the party, and formalizes the use of the Hitlergruss for party members. At first, the party embraced neo-Pagan beliefs, in accordance to Nazi occultism, describing Marxism and liberalism as "the ideological carriers of Judeo-Christianity." Later, however, the party underwent ideological changes, embracing Eastern Orthodox Christianity

anti marx and anti liberal - so tell me, when is jonah goldberg joining up?

62 engineer cat  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:28:50pm

lower taxes too much => massive debt
massive debt => austerity
austerity => turns recession into depression
depression => fascists

63 Achilles Tang  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:30:55pm

OT:
Been absent lately. Married off my eldest beautiful daughter yesterday.

One more equally wonderful to go early next year.

Just thought I would say.

Now I need to rest.

64 the silent one  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:30:57pm

*sighs* Why are the pretty ones always so crazy - what a shame.

65 Interesting Times in Benghazi  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:32:02pm
66 Stanghazi  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:37:00pm

re: #63 Flame Fin Tomini Tang

OT:
Been absent lately. Married off my eldest beautiful daughter yesterday.

One more equally wonderful to go early next year.

Just thought I would say.

Now I need to rest.

Seriously I got tears. Good job Dad.

67 PhillyPretzel  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:39:10pm

re: #66 Residence: Hopeandchangeistan 2012

::: pulling out hankie ::: me too. I like to hear about happy occasions.

68 Stanghazi  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:42:52pm

re: #67 PhillyPretzel

::: pulling out hankie ::: me too. I like to hear about happy occasions.

ESP after recession-depression-facists. Rings so true

69 jaunte  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:45:36pm
70 funky chicken  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:48:44pm

re: #21 freetoken

Some other election results around Europe could be indicative:

Merkel's coalition is waning, but the big surprise is that the Pirates have come on so strongly.

The nationalists in Serbia will probably find energy from the growing nationalist/nazi movement in Greece.

Pirates?

71 freetoken  Sun, May 6, 2012 1:54:44pm

re: #70 funky chicken

Pirates?

All the internets is yours!

72 funky chicken  Sun, May 6, 2012 2:02:18pm

re: #71 freetoken

My son's gonna want one of the cool hats.

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

I'm still confused why they call themselves the Pirate Party.

73 Patricia Kayden  Mon, May 7, 2012 4:34:34am

Thankfully, I do not watch CNN so the only time I read about Loesch is on LGF. Strange woman.


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