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After more than 12 years of blogging at NewsBusters and Legal Insurrection, I’ve recently gone out on my own with FinkelBlog.

After failing to make "the big time" you've once again fetched up upon our shores.

There have been considerable expenses with constructing the site.

Well, no.

It's a free Wordpress blog, available to any street derelict with access to a library computer.

I also pay a monthly subscription for a video feed that allows me to create the YouTubes

Well.. no again. You have a Youtube channel, also free, upon which you stick videos made by others.

I’d appreciate them clicking over to FinkelBlog.

I'm sure you would.

See you soon.

Each of your allegations is incorrect.

Here are the facts.

I haven’t “fetched up on our shores” once again. I have been cross-posting my NewsBusters and Legal Insurrection items for about 12 years—thousands of items I am doing nothing different now that I have my own blog.

There WAS considerable expense in constructing the site. Although WordPress is free, I paid a local firm $300 dollars to design the site, and am paying $60/month for hosting and help.

I create every YouTube that I post: I am not posting other people’s YouTubes. In order to do that, I subscribe to Grabien, paying a monthly fee to get video feeds of a number of channels that I can download and edit and then upload to YouTube.

I’d also like to address the substance.

For going on 15 years now, I have been doing my best to aid the conservative cause by exposing liberal media bias. I began doing vanity posts here, focusing mainly on the Today show during the Katie Couric era, then at NewsBusters, Legal Insurrection, and now at FinkelBlog.

There are many FReepers who find my work useful and interesting. My Liberal Media Ping list has over 100 members. My posts regularly attract many comments. My work has been favorably cited by many leading conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh.

I’m not stealing anyone else’s work. I write every word. My YouTubes are provided so that readers can see for themselves what I’m writing about. They are short, and well within the Fair Comment exception to the copyright laws.

Now that I am out on my own, this is largely a labor of love. As mentioned in my previous comment, I’ve expended a considerable amount of money in getting FinkelBlog going. So far, YouTube projects that my videos have earned a grand total of $8.16. If I could break even on my work, I’d be thrilled.

I don’t understand your campaign against my work. I’m just a fellow conservative out here, doing my best.