@snoopydawg

you'd think that if a journalist was going to slime somebody, they would do enough research to get basic facts straight. i guess facts aren't all they're cracked up to be anymore and one can't put too many facts in a report.

He has a funny hit piece on MoA and b and thinks he’s really from Alabama.

Who or What Is ‘Moon of Alabama’? And Why Is He Trying to Lynch Evan Gershkovich?

Is Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter arrested by the Russians last week, actually a spy?

Some people — even in the United States — think so. Personally, I believe that to state as much is extremely reckless and endangers journalists everywhere. But beyond that, it is a symptom of a disease that is afflicting a small but seemingly growing element of the American Left.

They have a propensity to always ascribe sinister motives to the US “establishment” (including journalists) — while extending a breathtaking degree of trust to anyone on the other side, including dictators and mass oppressors of all stripes.

Look, we’ve all witnessed the history of American wrongdoing, and we all get it: The US has done plenty of terrible stuff. And almost certainly is still doing some. But to insist that nothing ever changes — that some permanent cabal will continue to decide everything all the time with the most malevolent of intents, with no one able to stop it — bespeaks a kind of madness, caused by a rigor mortis of the mind.

The thing that strikes me about the cabal is that some see it as all-powerful, calling all the shots with precision, but somehow also feckless and incompetent. It’s hard enough to govern a small town or run a mom-and-pop business, yet these folks think the cabal is capable of running everything in the world, all nicely coordinated, in furtherance of some nefarious vision

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I want to take a look here at this blog, and the phenomenon of which it is a part. Although it’s a mere blip in the media landscape, I believe it offers insight into a growing sickness and darkness in this country — one of a number of dysfunctional subsets of our society which range from the MAGA people to the anti-vaxxers.

Moon of Alabama

The blogger I want to look at prefers to remain anonymous (though seems to be a he), and goes by the moniker “Moon of Alabama.” He constantly imputes sinister motives to any foreigners taking things into their own hands to stand up to oppression. Thus, Ukrainians are US puppets. Iranians rejecting subservience to mullahs and the forced wearing of headscarves are US provocateurs. Taiwan has no legitimate reason to exist, and the US has no reason to defend this democracy against a giant dictatorship. And so forth.
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As for Moon Of Alabama, instead of giving naive readers the impression he has information or insights he doesn’t, that maybe he is in Alabama or elsewhere in the “heartland,” at least he might come up with a moniker that accurately conveys his brand.

Like “Moon Over Moscow” or “Mooning Washington.”

Indeed, in one exchange (not on his own site), Moon sneered at those trying to discover his identity, and claimed that he is not American.

Should anyone learn who or what the blogger behind the Moon mask answers to, please let us know. Then again, maybe it’s not a conspiracy, just a sad, deluded soul.

Lol…Russ should take a look at DK one of the original anti war websites who describe themselves as on the left. Anyone who tries to bring some truth about Ukraine is dawg piled and insulted as a Putin lover or worse. And now the anti capital punishment folks have not only been cheering at the long prison sentences for the j-6 folks, but want severe punishment for the guy just arrested for leaking the information. Capital punishment is okay for him because he’s probably a Trumper.

I looked at some of his other work and anyone who disagrees with him is a troll or didn’t read what he wrote and are just poopy pants people living in their moms basement.

If you don’t remember what he used to write about he wrote the Bush family of secrets and here is his Wikipedia page.

@snoopydawg

there he goes with those inconvenient facts that spin in the wrong direction.

.@phildstewart
Will there be any follow up on this week old news story you authored?

Will you name the "three U.S. officials" who anonymously told you this 'Russigate' nonsense?

Or will you continue to spread rumors citing those officials as trustworthy source? pic.twitter.com/vemelzhtFF

— Moon of Alabama (@MoonofA) April 14, 2023

From the article:

Russia or pro-Russian elements are likely behind the leak of several classified U.S. military documents posted on social media that offer a partial, month-old snapshot of the war in Ukraine, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, while the Justice Department said separately it was probing the leak.

The documents appear to have been altered to lower the number of casualties suffered by Russian forces, the U.S. officials said, adding their assessments were informal and separate from the investigation into the leak itself.

The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the matter and declined to discuss the documents in any detail.

lol wasn’t that one of the biggest complaints about Hersh and his essay on how Biden blew up nordstream? And weren’t we exposed to unnamed sources for every article saying that Trump colluded with Putin to deny HerHeinous the coronation she thought she so richly deserved?

@dystopian

heh, a week off from the news was pretty great. i mean, i miss it, but it's still good to not think about it for a little while.

glad you're digging the music, have a great weekend!

Hi all, Hey Joe!

Great to see you get a week off! And with a concert! A couple of my friends that saw him back right after he left Yes, still rant and rave about the Wakeman shows. You must be livin' right.

Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels were great. Everyone I ever met from DTW was nuts about 'em. Always had great lead guitar fills. Just quick short ones, but concise and cutting. Later Steve Hunter was in the band, until Lou Reed pirated him away... after hearing their version of Lou's own penned Rock & Roll Music... which then worked out great if you ever heard Sweet Jane.

That Chick Willis was great too, as was bro Chuck. That was awesome stuff too.

Thanks for the great soundscapes! Have a great weekend!

Have good ones all!