You made a few good points, but I have to disagree that LGF plays games like this. I’ve sucked it up and linked to people that I despise in the past when they’ve broken real stories, and I’ll do it again.
This is what the right wing blogosphere has become — a bunch of unprofessional people exploiting the basest instincts of the dumbest segment of the right wing. These bloggers couldn’t care less about honesty and ethics. It’s all about ultra-partisan politics and punishing the infidels.