Comments on: (UPDATED) Did The New York Times Just Tell Glenn Reynolds To “STFU”?

By: JayK

JayK — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:22:56 +0000

I would like to point out that there seems to be an assumption here that the commenter from the New York Times must necessarily have been a reporter.

The poster could be an accountant…or in circulation..or working in the cafeteria. I know this is all great fun here, but I wonder what percentage of people who work at The New York Times actually WRITE for The New York Times.

By: Have You Searched Your Comments Today? | Little Miss Attila

Have You Searched Your Comments Today? | Little Miss Attila — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:19:21 +0000

[...] Founding Fathers wonders who is telling Professor Reynolds to “STFU.” Glenn snarks. Dan Reihl takes the NYT challenge, and hits pay dirt. Glenn is vaguely amused, and . [...]

By: HatlessHessian

HatlessHessian — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:09:12 +0000

Tami mus work for the NYTimes given the remarkably inept understanding of how IP addressing works. Buildings do not have IP addresses; they’re assigned digitally and provisioned to correspond to be routed to locations on networks. (I know, this is terribly difficult stuff for a firm that uses the same dead-tree communication technology common in the 1880s). WHOIS registration has no correspondence to the actual routed location. In fact, it may shock a Times reporter that things like NAT (network address translation) can complicate the identification of a source party on a network.

By: l.a.guy

l.a.guy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:58:53 +0000

I’m pretty ambivalent about Obama but I really don’t understand the “stalling” on Afghanistan criticism. I think everyone understands the difference between campaign rhetoric and the real world. Obama may wish he could take those “war of necessity” words back, but either way he was going to have to make the best of a bad situation. I don’t see how he commit to increasing troop levels until the election results were resolved, appearing to blindly back a corrupt government would have done more damage to our cause than good. Even now he has to walk an incredibly fine line between pursuing the interests of the US while not alienating the Afghan population at the same time.

Personally I’ve had enough of the “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.” crap. Doing something for the sake of doing something is the enemy of common sense. Making informed carefully considered decisions, as he appears to be doing with Afghanistan, is the way things ought to be done.

As to the vitriol and nastiness of “progressives”… if you’ve spent anytime reading KOS of Huffington Post then it would hardly come as a surprise.

By: beatrix

beatrix — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:24:36 +0000

If you google “franglosaxon” you’ll find his (her?) comments all over the place. Clearly an Obama fan and very big on argument-by-name-calling.

By: Tami

Tami — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:53:15 +0000

That address in the IP identification is the old New York Times building, which the NYT has not occupied since 2007. Either someone’s pulling your leg, or they never updated their IP information to their new sparklin tower address, which is The New York Times 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018.

By: RebeccaH

RebeccaH — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:30:02 +0000

In the first place, Glenn Reynolds isn’t a “conservative”. He’s a libertarian, and a pretty fair and balanced one at that. Which is why he’s a target for the hidebound reactionaries at the New York Times.

By: Ed Driscoll

Ed Driscoll — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:12:38 +0000

Dispatches From The House Of Sulzberger…

Last week, when we produced our “Pinchurian Candidate” video, we noted that New York Timesmen such as Frank Rich, had developed quite an idiosyncratic use of language; dubbing conservative Republicans in upstate New York “Stalinists…..

By: Nightly Ramble Wednesday | BitsBlog

Nightly Ramble Wednesday | BitsBlog — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:04:48 +0000

[...] is known for it’s leftie staff… and Founding Bloggers has one on the hook apparently. I’ll toss the link, but since Founding Bloggers seems to be under attack, I’ll post the whole of the post, at [...]

By: On an ironic note

On an ironic note — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:55:29 +0000

Now, for some irony: earlier this year I commented on a couple polls that Glenn Reynolds was running on his site. The response to one was “ShutTheFckUpLonewacko” (the last part is my former domain name).

What whoever left the comments apparently didn’t realize is that the polling software listed a partial IP address, and, as discussed at my name’s link, one of the “STFU” comments resolved to an IP in Knoxville, TN and the other resolved to the University of Tennessee.

Now, certainly, just because they were both Instapundit polls and both comments came from Instapundit’s university and city doesn’t mean they were from Glenn Reynolds. It could have just been someone else, and I’m sure he’d be willing to help me find who did it. Of that I’m sure.