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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (2336)	2/14/2004 3:16:38 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Nice attempt at changing the subject matter, which was your comment: Drudge still being sued for libel in other case: GUILTY I was aware that Drudge had retracted his original story. The reason for my post was your comment that Blumenthal's suit was still active. It is not. Your article, which I have previously read, supports my original comment. If you were actually paying attention, you would realize that Drudge generally retracts stories that have been in error. He throws a lot of stuff against the wall. Some sticks, some falls off. I personally have tried to make it a habit to post a retraction if I have posted some erroneous information. You don't. Give it a try. I think that people would be a little less harsh with you if you were to admit to the occasional error. As for Blumenthal, he is a reprehensible excuse for a human being. While he may not beat his wife, I would not be shocked to read that he beats dogs. He is a bully, which is why he got along so well with Hillary when he worked in the White House. I rather like the comments of his friend Andrew Sullivan: News of the settlement was the big online buzz of the day. Andrew Sullivan chimes in with this support of Drudge. "I must be the only person alive who's a friend of both Matt Drudge and Sid Blumenthal. (That may end when I post this item.) But I have to say that, however awful Matt's mistake in making unfounded allegations about Sid several years ago, he corrected them swiftly, apologized, and did all he could do to rectify the damage. Sid's subsequent lawsuit was therefore nothing but over-kill and intimidation -- backed by the Clinton White House and its many loathsome cronies. "It seems to me that his settlement of the lawsuit is a clear vindication for Matt -- and good news for everyone else trying to forge good, risk-taking journalism on the Web. Mistakes, which we all make, should be broadcast and corrected swiftly and openly. The human beings who make them should not be hounded through the courts, when they have done all they can to correct the error. When the person doing the hounding is a journalist himself, he owes the profession something of an apology."