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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
A Democrat not on this blog
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Thinking Right blog is often attacked by liberal hackers polishing their hurtful invective on the well-informed, kind and intelligent conservatives who gather here to share ideas and insights on how to create a stronger and better America. It’s brutal sometimes. The abuse heaped by frightened liberals on my conservative brethren and sisteren causes the genial host to wince — until, lo and behold, the good conservative Dusty or one of her many conservative friends on the blog rises up to smite them down with an irrefutable truth incisively delivered.
But now I’m left to wonder: Which of liberal contributors here might have been the son of the Democratic state legislator in Tennessee who hacked the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin? Oh, I have suspicions but, as is the predisposition to fairness that is the hallmark of conservatives, I’ll let justice run its course.
But there he was in federal court in Knoxville, Tenn., young David Kernell, 20, son of veteran Tennessee Democratic lawmaker Mike Kernell of Memphis, accused of being the Palin hacker.
Oh, Democrats said in response to the invasion of Palin’s privacy, the hacker was most likely some non-political campus computer geek. They were part right. Kernell is an economics student at the University of Tennessee, who incidentally can profess his loyalty to the Tennessee Volunteers by wearing the orange jump suit taxpayers provide to those who rob the privacy of others.
The alleged hacker’s father is chairman of the Government Operations Committee in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Don’t look for him here, though, if indeed he ever was one of the Democratic partisans who visited Thinking Right. Part of the judge’s order is that he cannot own a computer and his Internet usage is limited to checking e-mails and doing class work.
So our homework assignment for the next class is to find the missing blogname on Thinking Right. Could it be that one of our liberal contributors was so frustrated by the strengths of arguments offered by intelligent and well-prepared conservatives here that he was driven to dirty tricks directed against our beloved Sarah? Who’s not here today and possibly dressed in orange and banned from participating, not by the genial host, but by order of the court?
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