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Those are some mighty weak straw men you got there, Taint.

Please don’t suggest that you’ve never had a thread pulled for the other - the internet has a very long memory. It might take me a while, but you and I both know that there are examples of you doing *both*.

As for IBD, what are you suggesting? It couldn’t be the old canard of “everybody else does it!” now could it?

Here’s your basic problem - credibility. Or rather lack of it. You can’t go around for (literally) years trying to piggy back your blog’s hit rate on other people’s work without suffering some damage.

Face it, Gooch - you do very little that could be called “original” journalism, even by the low standards of the blogosphere. About the only thing you have to offer is a rather advanced case of OCD list making. There are dozens of FReepers who on a daily basis post far more insightful and extensive essays as thread comments in the spirit of synergy and sharing who don’t expect to get blog hits for it.

You wrote two sentences one of which was rhetorical. And you linked to an article from Daily Caller. Why didn’t you just post the Daily Caller article? Your “clever comment” could be Post #1 and nobody - myself included would say one thing about it. But no. You had to pretend that those two sentences deserved a link to your blog. And if you had done it that way, probably no one would have noticed that it was the same as another FReeper’s comment.

Any way you slice it, you’ve made your own bed and established your own reputation. And it’s not a good one.

When I said that Investor's Business Daily wrote the same thing, I was not saying that anyone had plagiarized anyone. Instead, I was saying that it is perfectly reasonable to think that multiple, different people would independently come with the same idea. Investor's Business Daily, Real Cynic No More, and myself each came up with the idea on our own, and I'm sure that many other people have too.

Yes, some of the threads that I started here have indeed been deleted. But my blog posts still exist at my blog, and I always post a link to any source that I use.