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A BLOGGER UNDER SIEGE

By Michelle Malkin   ·   July 08, 2006 11:22 AM

***scroll for updates: the moonbat 'fesses up, loses her job?***

Jeff Goldstein, who has been such an inspiration and good friend ever since I started blogging, is under attack. He--and his toddler son--have been the subject of abuse and harassment from a nutball leftist troll, who appears to hold a prominent teaching position at the University of Arizona and seems to have a history of abusing and stalking blogs. Some of the messages she left for Jeff: ( XXXX -- you have seen it enough... )

Sick. Just sick.

After Jeff blew the whistle on the troll's messages, his site crashed as a result of two DDOS attacks. The site remains down as of this morning. Jeff has been the target of unique unhingedness from the Left. His bold eloquence, sharp wit, and willingness to engage the other side have gotten under their skin. Drop him a note of support if you have a spare moment: jeff-at-proteinwisdom.com.

Background at Ace of Spades, Euphoric Reality, Small Dead Animals, Instapundit, and Blackfive.

More: Confederate Yankee.

Update 11:49 Eastern....I'm going to try and confirm this, but here is a post on the blog of University of Arizona professor Deb Frisch (hat tip: Greg at OTB)

white flag

I wrote some inflammatory comments at a blog by a guy named Jeff Goldstein called protein wisdom that infuriated many bloggers and commenters. Many of these bloggers emailed my boss at the University of Arizona to tell on me.

In hindsight, the things I wrote were over the line of nastiness. I apologize to Mr. Goldstein.

I have resigned from the University of Arizona so there is no need for other enraged people to write to administrators there.

In true moonbat-style, she goes on to portray herself as the victim.

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UPDATE: Well, this was quick -- apparently the University of Arizona doesn't mess around. The administrators started getting e-mails from Jeff's readers, and now Frisch admits to the threats and has resigned, according to her blog. In her post, titled "white flag", she blames Jeff for her woes:

UPDATE II: The Instapundit cautions us not to assume it's Frisch, even with the blog post on her site, noting that people can still spoof identities easily enough on line. In this case, it seems like a long shot; Frisch has archives going back as long as mine. It is possible that someone hacked her site and posted this under her name, but that seems pretty farfetched. It's not impossible, however.

Attacking Bloggers' Children? Despicable (Updated)

Jeff Goldstein, who has always been a friend to CQ from its earliest days, has found himself and his family the target of some despicable threats, apparently from an academic at the University of Arizona. This series of e-mails allegedly came from Deb Frisch, a professor of psychology at Arizona with some history of on-line histrionics:

 Comments (10)  "I just love the Net and how it adds volume to the freaks, who think "if only they could be heard by more people."

Hey, we hear them now."

 

JEFF GOLDSTEIN'S SITE is still under DOS attack. Background is here.

I encourage people not to be too positive about the perpetrator's identity until there's some sort of outside confirmation.

UPDATE: Here's a blog post with an apology. The domain shows as registered to the right person, in Tucson Arizona. Nonetheless, on the Internet you can't be entirely sure about identities, something that's worth remembering.

ANOTHER UPDATE: But apparently she's got some blog-stalking history with Bainbridge.