I’ve been running across this draft in the notedly cram-stuffed SadNo we-never-finish-anything drafts folder for days now, and every time it’s like, ‘Muh. Dan Riehl. Nathan Tabor. Muh.’

Liberals Are Such Morons

You know, somebody told me not long ago that Dan lives fairly nearby, somewhere past a certain mountainy-forest place that I tend to frequent. Since then I’ve changed my habits. I no longer assume, for instance, that a 1989 Ford Festiva with Barry Goldwater painted on the hood won’t come plowing through a hedge and chase me screaming into the old quarry. I’ve started looking both ways when crossing one-way streets and standing farther back on the train platform. When I enter a building, I unconsciously check for exits and for maniacal bwa-ha-haaaing.

It isn’t that I think Dan harbors ill motives, or anything like that. It just concerns me that he’s around here influencing the actuarial tables. For instance:

Oh my God! Matt Ortega is ringing the taco bell at HuffPo because he busted Duncan Hunter and Nathan Tabor … not!

Can you hear him coming arm-flailingly down the sidewalk, braying in a talk-radio voice as he nears the tippy ladder with the paint bucket balanced on the step? Can you see the banana peel on the sidewalk as the two guys carry the plate-glass window past the heaped vegetable cart next to other guy working in the manhole, while the piano dangles on the fraying rope overhead?

Because watch this. Here’s Matt Ortega walking along all like ‘doop-de-doo,’ minding his own business:

Duncan Hunter’s Blogger Ethics Problem

The campaign staffer for Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine, Calif.), TheConservativeVoice.com founder Nathan Tabor, signed on as the Director of Internet Outreach in mid-February citing the congressman’s “commitment to conservative principles.” Apparently those principles do not include disclosing who signs your paychecks when you write columns slamming the boss’ political opponents.

And here comes Riehl.

Yeah, so? In the first place, Hunter didn’t hire Tabor as a blogger, Tabor has a consulting business with multiple clients and is, obviously, also an on line columnist. And as the news is so public – just ask CBS:

For those helping the lesser-known Republican candidates, it’s a matter of convincing primary voters of their conservative values, said Nathan Tabor, the 33-year-old Web master for the presidential campaign of Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. After all, McCain, Romney and Giuliani are scrambling now to account for flip-flops in their records, he noted.

where exactly is the there, here? Tabor also hired John Hawkins of Right Wing News with regard to Hunter, which was also disclosed.

Dan is now aloft, hanging achingly in the air in still-frame.

First of all, there’s this:

Dan Riehl Nominated For Darwin Award

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Perhaps the real question is, should the honorable Mr. Riehl wish to place a call to Mexico, would he attempt to dial via Taco Bell?

The ‘taco bell’ thing isn’t even his, see? He’s probably been carrying it around this whole time just waiting for someone with a name like ‘Ortega,’ ‘Goya,’ or ‘Tio Pepe’ to cross his path.

Sobre: El periodista hace la investigación

Fine. We’ll keep making them up, Dan can just go on stealing them.

Above: Dunkin’ black

Second thing… I say, the second thing…

Muh. I suppose I’ll finish this tomorrow. [To Be Contizzled…]