Saturday, August 1, 2009

AK Muckmaker fails to intimidate Bob Parks

If you've been following the saga of the Ethicsgate video (see here), you know that the Democrats don't want anyone to see that video because it exposes the connections between the Obama Administration and the Alaska anti-Palin bloggers and bogus ethics complaint filers.

One Democrat operative in particular, Mudflatulence blogger Jeanne Devon (AK Muckraker) has scared various sites which at one time or another were hosting the video into taking it down by claiming that she owns several of the images used in the video and implying that refusal to remove it constituted copyright infringement.

But though Devon's veiled threats worked for a while, more and more webmasters are being made aware that they can legally host the video, according to the Fair Use clause of the Copyright Law of 1976, which allows for the rebroadcast of copyrighted works for the purpose of education, commentary, and criticism.

Bob Parks, who blogs at Black & Right, is one of those who refuses to let The Muckmaker push him around:
"Sarah Palin has been the target of the left from the very day she walked onto the public stage, and their venom continues on. The problem is, they don’t like being exposed, and now that they’ve been, they’re crying foul and one of the whiners has brought her issues to my door (via email)..."
Of Devon's e-mail, Parks says, "I guess that’s supposed to impress me":
"While Ms. Devon feels she may have been violated, I think the only violation is that these malicious liberal thugs got caught, have been publicly outed, and are justifiably paranoid of potential legal trouble from Mrs. Palin."
And for punctuation, Parks put the video up on his blog. A tip of the Texas for Sarah Palin Stetson to Bob Parks. You, sir, are a steely-eyed missile man.

Speaking of the video...



In our opinion, every right of center blogger should embed this video and keep bumping it to the top until the state-controlled media are forced to report this story.

- JP

3 comments:

  1. That's a good idea, JP. The vid's my top blog post right now, but the next time I post, I think I'll move it over to the sidebar so it stays in a prominent position.

    I would imagine Van Flein has seen it by now, and may, in fact, have already known all these connections. Perhaps the Palin team is getting a boffo case in line with all their ducks in a row, and will come out blazing soon.

    August would be a good time to go with this expose, since Congress is out of session and the news cycles will be pining for stories.

    Especially about Palin, 'cause they've already had TWO stories about how there's no news from her: First Rachel D'Oro's. Then Mark Silva's in the Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-talk-palin-no-tweetaug01,0,7566715.story?track=rss

    If the news media are ginning up stories from twitter and facebook and blogs, then they'll jump all over real Palin news.

    Unbelievably, Larry King was Michael Jackson stories every night this week ... !

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  2. "You, sir, are a steely-eyed missile man."

    Onya JP. Back at ya!!

    No prisoners, no mercy.

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  3. I'll post it, too. Thanks for doing all this work and keeping it in the news. This was a great compilation. BTW, I love the name "mudflatulence" haha

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