So Dan and I have had repeated conversations over the past year expressing our wonderment and the anti-GayPatriot commenters who, while loathing and despising every punctutation mark written here, nonetheless seem to troll on the site and attack at a moment’s notice of a new posting or friendly commenter.
One of the most amusing and angry of our commenters is “GayCowboyBob” who seems to gain his oxygen from doing nothing but badmouthing the hosts of this blog and everyone else in the world that thinks the sky is blue. His attacks of late have been more frequent and more “loud” than ever. Which makes his own words, on his own blog even more interesting…. especially since the last posting was September 20th.
Here’s the entire text from the existing posting on The Gay GOP Roundup – 9/20/05:

Gay Patriot – Big, Fat Partisan Blowhards
So as you can see I haven’t been blogging much of late. Traveling, busy schedule etc. have all been getting in the way.
But for the time being, until I decide to start posting more regularly, I need to post one more entry.
It is that the site GayPatriot has become so over-the-top partisan that I feel any further dialogue on my part simply wastes my time.

(GP Editorial Comment – Really? Well that was over two months ago…and yet here you still are. I guess you must be a liberal, because you can’t keep your own promises…. in your own words.)

Dan and Bruce, the main correspondents, simply post now for exposure. They select issues designed to affect maximum controversy allowing them to spin conservative rhetoric. There is no effort to critically assess current issues. There is no effort to critically assess Republican actions in government. It has simply become a sounding board for the far right perspective with little or no insight or thoughtfulness rather being an outlet for hyperbolic rhetoric.

(GP – Is there a mirror in the house?)

Therefore, I have again withdrawn myself from their debate.

(GP – And unfortunately, all of us here know that is a lie.)

The perspectives of less-than-party advocates simply drives the controversy, furthering their end of more exposure for the site a la Coulter, Malkin, Fox News. Dan and Bruce are now drawn, accidentally or deliberately, into the ratings game. They’ve gotten a little taste of the power of celebrity and feel the bloodlust. Look for them to write a book along the lines of “Dumb Liberals, Smart Conservatives” soon.

(GP – No need, the words of a Lying Cowboy prove that.)

I hope that others will also see them for their Righter-than-Right perspective and stop pandering to their baiting. The majority Centrists of the country do themselves a disservice and an injustice by giving people of Dan and Bruce’s ilk fuel to their fire.
We have given far right AND far left factions much too much power in espousing their beliefs. They have overtaken and corrupted the national debate and are the powers that cause, not resolve, the majority of problems. We do ourselves a disservice by pandering to this radical angst. It’s all too easy to be sucked into the controversy and therefore we must try even harder to eschew radical elements and promote centrist.

(GP – If someone can email me ONE “centrist” position that the Lying Cowboy has put forth… please do. He’s really into the full revisionist history spin at this point in the post, huh?)

I hope any of you reading this will join me in taking sites like GayPatriot, Coulter, Malkin, Noonan, off your usual reading.

(GP – Well, we know again that he is a true liberal. “Do as I say, not as I do.”)

Without exposure, they have no power. They will try to keep that exposure by becoming even more vitriolic and radical but it’s up to the regular guy to stop it. It’s time the real silent majority of the United States, you and your neighbors, say to all these talking head “no, we do accept you skewing the debate. You ARE the radical faction and you do not represent me.”

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Regular guy, eh Cowboy? Well, exactly who are you? Dan and I have fully disclosed who we are. So now it is the Lying Cowboy’s turn.
If anyone is to truly believe anything he says anymore (either in his comments here or on his own apparently-defunct blog), don’t we deserve to know who he is and what his agenda is? After all, he likes to dominate this blog so much, he must be well-educated in all of the important issues of the day.
Tick, tick, tick, tick….
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Chicken, potatoes and mixed vegetables. That’s what you wanted to know, right?
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds kicked off the lunch presentation with some comments about journalists have formed their own “guild” versus the more grassroots free-wheeling spirit of earlier newspapers and today’s bloggers.
Judith Miller is now addressing the group (did you know she has a blog?) and the impact that bloggers had on her case. She says she had no choice but to go to jail, not only to protect her most famous source, Scooter Libby, but also other (still unnamed sources). And much of the news she received in jail came from visitors who many times brought printed-out blogger accounts.
1:34PM – I just noticed that there is an important new update in the Libby indictment out today via Bob Woodward’s testimony Monday to the Special Prosecutor. Bob Woodward – The Grinch Who Stole Fitzmas – Decision ’08.

Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.
In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement Woodward released yesterday.
Fitzgerald interviewed Woodward about the previously undisclosed conversation after the official alerted the prosecutor to it on Nov. 3 — one week after Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was indicted in the investigation.

1:44PM – In the context of the Federal journalist shield law proposed by Rep. Mike Pence, Ms. Miller laid out her Five Commandments for Mainstream Blogging (MSB) Reporting:
1 – Be honest about who you are, who’s writing your blog and where’s your funding comes from.
2 – Try to reach the subject of your story for comment before publishing a story about that person or persons.
3 – If subject of article denies the story, and if that subject has corroboration for denial — say so! It might actually be true.
4 – If you are wrong, acknowledge it.
5 – If you are wrong, be determined to get it right.
I can’t say I disagree. I do not think that the Mainstream Media is living up to all or most of these commandments on a daily basis.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Okay, the Barron departure was an interesting tidbit, eh? I guess you can’t be gay without being pro-abortion anymore? Ah, the America As They Want It (TM) as dictated by the GayBorg. But I digress.
(Open Source Media launch meeting live audio link)
The political panel is very interesting, but I think they should have had some non-star types to comment. I feel like I’m being lectured by the same types of people that the blogosphere is supposed to challenge. It would have been a better group if a smaller blogger, with some edge, had been on the panel. But it was a good discussion nonetheless.

There has been a lot of discussion about the falling cost of distribution and how that allows bloggers to reach the same “level” as the New York Times. Like cable TV channels became equal to the old primary network channels in the 1980s.
12:14 PM – As the political panel is winding up before lunch, I wanted to mention that at the breakfast gathering, I had the opportunity to also meet Chad (Cake Or Death?), BoiFromTroy, Syn… our frequent GP commenter (who I love already), PubliusPundit, the BadHairBlogger (who is an ardent GayPatriot fan!), and Asher who helps out at IraqTheModel.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

I’m sure I’m not the one to break the news…. but “Pajamas Media” has been officially re-launched as Open Source Media. The launch conference has begun at the 65th Floor of 30 Rockefeller Center in the famous Rainbow Room. The day-long conference is being streamed live via audio at the OSM site. (LIVE STREAM AUDIO LINK)
I’ll be liveblogging throughout the day by expanding this post so as to keep the OSM link with audio at the top.
10:25 AM – Roger L. Simon was introduced by Andrew Breitbart and is now giving the opening remarks and highlights of the new OSM.
During the breakfast reception, I was able to meet some of the big names of the blogosphere including the King himself, Glenn Reynolds. I thanked Glenn for his support of our blog from the very first week. He is a very nice and approachable guy and I was thrilled to have met him first thing.
10:37 AM – Here are the first pictures from the OSM Launch meeting.

Charles Johnson of LittleGreenFootballs gives a site review
of the new OSM website for the assembled group.

I’m thrilled and honored to have been nominated already in the LGBT Category of the 2005 Weblog Awards. You may remember that WE (GP correction!) placed 2nd behind BoiFromTroy last year… and it was a very very tight vote!
So let’s make sure we win this year!!
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
UPDATE (from GPW): Um, Bruce, we placed 2nd last year. 🙂

I’m sorry, but clearly there’s a disconnect with Aaron’s Deck O’ Bloggers nomination rules!

1. Queens and Hearts are reserved for female bloggers.

Oh come on! I was going to nominate BoiFromTroy for Queen of Hearts!!! Heh, heh.
Anyway….Aaron, I’d like to nominate GayPatriot for Jack of Diamonds. Reason? Cause of this photo of Jack in tights. Need I say more?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Heh heh.

I just noticed we’ve topped the 400K mark this evening.

I’d share this news with Dan, but he seems to be missing. Therefore, in honor of our achievement, I will issue a “Lavender Alert” for the missing GayPatriotWest. If any one in Los Angeles sees him, please call 1-800-GAY-BOY-MISSING.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

A new gay conservative website was brought to my attention this week.
GayConservative.org
Hey, Steve and Michael are kinda cute, too. I’ve always found gay Republicans to be cuter than gay Democrats. (And much less vapid, of course)
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

I’m sorry I haven’t written this morning so far…. just not having a great day. I’ve had a herniated disc problem in my neck for about 15 years. Physicial therapy and massage therapy have helped until the past week. Now I’m in the same kind of pain I was in about 7 years ago when I seriously considered bone fusion therapy. I’m not going that way again, but I am going to a chiropractor again….. they are covered by my insurance!
Anyway, my neck and upper shoulders are in a lot of pain and all the muscles are very tense. So as you can imagine, typing on the computer ain’t no fun. Plus, I’m about to leave for the rest of the week for a business trip. Slogging through airports…. and waiting…. is also not something I’m looking forward to.
So, I’m hoping some of you will give me some inspiration to write. Or, more preferably, if you would like to act as a “guestblogger” this week, please feel free to email me your draft postings.
That’s not to say if the mood strikes me this week that I may still not opine about the state of the universe. But I’m eager to have some of you write this week as well.
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com

While the blog celebrated its first blogiversary over a month ago, today marks my blogiversary. Shortly after I e-mailed Bruce (whom I then only knew as “GayPatriot) to praise him for telling Log Cabin to stick it (for withholding its endorsement of the president in last fall’s campaign), we exchanged e-mails and soon he invited me on board.
Bruce, I am grateful for the opportunity you gave me to share my thoughts with your audience, pretty substantial even back then for a blog so young.
Since then, we have gotten to know each other and frequently found it uncanny how similar our thoughts are on certain issues. And I met Bruce and his Partner John last fall when they were in LA. We made a pilgrimage to one of the most sacred spots in Southern California–the Reagan Library.
I am also grateful to those of you who read us regularly and those who comment, particularly those who take the time to express their disagreement in a civil manner. While I know (and regret) that some critics misrepresent our ideas and call us (and our supporters names), I appreciate those like Patrick who help further the kind of debate, I believe, a blog should promote.
As I am busy writing two papers and engaging in introspection appropriate to the Days of Awe, I will not be able to post much in the next few days. I’ll try to dash off a thought or two. So, as I did when I celebrated my six-month blogiversary, I reference my “virgin post” and quote again the words of the great Albert Camus with which I entered the blogosphere:

Something in us has been destroyed by the spectacle of the years just past. And this something is the eternal confidence of man, which has always made him believe that one could draw human reactions from another man by speaking to him in the language of humanity. We have seen lying, debasing, killing, deportations, torture, and each time it was not possible to persuade those who were doing it not to do it, because they were so sure of themselves and because one cannot persuade an abstraction, that is to say, the representative of an ideology.
The long conversation of mankind has just ended. And, of course, a man whom one cannot persuade is a man who frightens us….
We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible, because man has been delivered entirely to history and because he can no longer turn to that part of himself, as true as the historical part, which he discovers in front of the beauty of the world and of human faces…

“The Century of Fear” from Combat, November 1946 (my translation). If I have a personal motto as a blogger, it is those words.
I seek always to remain open to persuasion and to keep open as well that long conversation which too many, on both sides of the political aisle, would rather keep closed.
-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

As our Pal BoiFromTroy, who edged us out for Wizbang’s Best LGBT Blog, celebrates his second blogiversary today, he also received his one millionth visitor.
Congratulations, Boi!
(Update from GP – I also, reluctantly, share my envious congrats with the Boi. But I’m gonna win the 2005 LGBT Blog Awards this year, dammit!)
(Up-update from GPW — Um, we, Bruce, we’re gonna win it this year.)

I beg of you… download Feedreader!! Thanks to TheMalcontent for tipping me off on this interface.
Think Microsoft Outlook for Blog Feeds.
Trust me.. this will save you a lot of time in reading your favorite blogs.
PS – The GayPatriot feeds are at the bottom of our left-hand sidebar!
-Bruce (GayPatriot)