Posted on 02/19/2005 6:49:03 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
At http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1346984/posts#4, Kevin McCollough is taking a hissy fit about John Fund using an unattended laptop at CPAC. CPAC set up a riser for the bloggers and labelled it "bloggers row". I don't know how much CPAC set up for them this year, was it computers, access or what, but it's not much different from the inetrnet access I've seen at past CPACs. Any way, though the guy who's computer it was, and the blogger who called Fund over don't mind it, Kevin's stamping his little feet in indignation. And those folks are linked to own his wet dream of a column. Fund's behavior was not outragous if you know anything about running or participating in an event like CPAC. Also, when you go to these type of events, the conference sets up internet access for some people, sometimes press, sometimes exhibitors, sometimes for allattendees. Kevin again shows his tendency toward the hyserical. Back a few years ago, MCollugh sent me a "I'm Telling Mom" email about something I posted to the Ann Coulter Fan Club. Silly Kevin took me to task about it. I didn't pay much attention to his opion because prior to getting his email, I received one from Ann complimenting me on the same post. So, please, if you have a favorite "McCollugh Hissy Fit" story, feel free to share it here.
NOBODY'S more jealous than journalists. NOBODY.
His complaint isn't legitimate? I wouldn't walk over and use someone's computer.
When I scanned the other thread on it (posted by KMcC) I took it to be satirical.
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still waiting for the "tell it here" posts to come showering in...
Anybody who complains about Fund using the computer wears panties.
That's a fact.
Maybe he had the urge to Freep...
It happens. ;-)
Hey, LOVE the tagline!
Darn, now I have to change mine.
Doc,
If someone -- anyone -- sat down uninvited at my laptop, and started using it, then refused to get off when I got back, I would reach over, hit the kill button, then look at the dude, smile and say, "I guess I shoulda password-protected before I walked away." It would not matter whether it was at CPAC or wherever. I don't care how silly McCullough normally is, what Fund did was wrong. NOBODY uses my writing laptop, but me, except when cleared well in advance.
And please note, I would not complain about someone using my laptop. Just turn it off, if they do not get off immediately.
It *is* mine, after all.
Kevin is giving his hysterical view of it. Guess it's the way he gets attention.
First of all, that setup isn't all that different than others made for internet access for people like Fund. He also was called over by another blogger (LeShawn). The RedState guy comes back and isn't bent out of shape. That's right off their sites he's linked.
If yuo came to the FR booth, either one, national or DC Chapter and we had a computer running, if you wanted to use it, staytrue or 'pod wouldn't take a hissy fit like Kevin has. You could play the same script, 'pod going off for a coffee while you check mail and it's no big deal.
Maybe I'm biased because I know him to be a fool for the "I'm a friend of Ann's and I'm telling on you" email he sent, which was a real laugh after she had already complimented me on before his email hit my mail box.
One thing that's bogus, the "credentials" BS. All it said was "Bloggers Row". For a million dollars, you couldn't get anyone to tell you who they were or what you had to do to be on that riser.
The other thing is Kevin implies is that Fund knew he shouldn't be there. That's bogus. There's been internet access at CPAC for years and it has evolved to more people not less. Fund didn't pull a "Don't you know who I am?" to butt in, unlike Kevin's email to me which started off with "I'm a friend of Ann Coukter's" (wearing her higher rank instead of his own) instead of a logical argurment about what he might have found objectionable about the post.
Kevin's the one given to the "Don't you know who I am" type pushiness.
Sounds like someone is throwing a hissie fit; not sure it's McCullough.
Doc:
I am not saying that Kevin is not a horse's patoot. If you read his followups on the incident, you can see that Kevin has an agenda -- in Funds, so to speak. I am also not saying that other people or groups did not have pool computers set up. I will concede that Fund may have thought he was using a pool laptop.
Given all that:
If someone camped on my laptop -- even inadvertently, thinking it was a pool laptop -- that person would be asked to leave, then booted off if he refused to do so immediately. The computer Fund was on belonged to Adam Doverspike, and his behavior was rude.
Additionally it was stu-u-pid. Fund did it again the next day to Robert Cox's computer, and apparently walked away from it without logginf out of his (Fund's) WSJ e-mail account. (E-mail is one reason why I don't want others camping on my laptop.) Talk about leaving the keys to the kingdom out. If Kevin is leading the clown parade, John's not far behind.
Second one of "it's private property" that's a little foreign to the press room I believe. I've seen film crews "take stuf that wasn't their's". You have a few crews working the same event and one guy needs a battery because his are pretty much gone. There's not a lot of McCollugh's "Mother May I?" going on.
The media may not understand the blogger, but this appears to be a case of some bloggers not understanding the media.
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