Another Blog War Begins
Aby December 10th, 2008
I never thought that a thing like ‘blog war’ existed until I found this site dragged unwittingly into one of those “blog wars”. Some blogger who calls herself ‘virgomonkey‘ and owns a blog titled “Waging A War on the Radical Right and Radical Left” decided to start a smear campaign against Aby The Liberal. On a closer inspection of this said blog, I was amused to find that the last six or so posts in that blog are dedicated to passionate bashing of my site. Most of these posts were peppered with insults, outrageous lies and conspiracy claims (a lot of them being taller than Mount Everest). Most of her fodder presumably came from my non-existent ‘husband’ or ‘wife’, who supposedly found her blog offensive and gifted her with ‘hate mails’ to put up in one of her pages.
It appears that the tactic of using outrageous lies and made up quotes to bash a blog is not a first. A quick google search brought up a case of Glenn Reynolds, a legendary blogger whose popularity prompted Frank J., an attention seeker to launch a tirade of outrageous lies and slanders against Glenn’s blog. An excerpt from The Alliance
Frank J., of IMAO, is an up-and-coming blogger who occasionally mocks Glenn as a way to gain attention. His first method was making up outrageous lies: Glenn puts puppies in blenders and drinks them; Glenn murders hobos for fun; Glenn worships Satan; Glenn is a communist spy who does the robot dance; Glenn punched Frank J.
Later, Frank attempted to get Google to bring up Glenn’s site if the terms “liberal assclown” were entered. Results were mixed.
A lot of the lies used by virgomonkey against Aby The Liberal look strikingly similar to those employed by Frank J. against Glenn Reynolds. I am yet to decide whether these outrageous claims are satirical jokes or some serious attention seeking behaviour. As she was recently banned from this site for trolling, this might also be her way of getting back. In one of her latest posts, she alleges that this particular comment of hers is supposedly a forgery. Since an allegation of forgery is more scandalous than admitting a troll comment, it becomes quite obvious what that blogger’s agenda is.
I guess the next thing I should expect would be a ‘blogring’ of troll bloggers deciding to ‘wage a war’ against this site. Or maybe some more made up hate mails, quotes or something even more outrageous. Perhaps a picture of my so called ‘wife’ or ‘husband’ is in the cards. Or better still, an honest apology for making unsavoury jokes.











