it kind of looks like that other guy went crazy, not south knox bubba.

Hobbs, you've got it wrong. This started months ago and escalated, and my only intention was to neutralize the threat and deal with it on my terms. I never had any intention of outing myself.

I sent you an e-mail about this, but apparently you didn't get it.

I should note that it wasn't such a big mystery to you, because at one point you knew how I was. Fortunately you forgot, so apparently it isn't really that big of a deal.

But yeah, feel free to go ahead and defend the MP publisher (not editor) and make stuff up about my motivation to maintain your credibility as a good soldier of the right in their crusade to crush the left by any means necessary.

So you are upset for being "crushed" by the right . Welcome to our world. Maybe you can stop by Democrat Underground, and even your own site and ask them to stop attacking folks like me? My guess is fat chance.

Quit worrying about your job. To us conservatives who care about business, it doesn't matter. All we want is the best supplier at the best price we can get without hurting the product. My company has several die-hard Liberals working for us. We are moving the company from California to Nashville. We offered positions to everyone of them. I consider all of them friends. They try and convert me ( been a Democrat, I do not wish to go back ) and I try and convert them. The Cincinnati Bengals have a better chance at winning the Superbowl 5 years in a row than either one of us converting the other.

Good luck with your job and blog. I will have to add it to my list to read, since I too am coming to TN. Consider your vote now cancelled out by soon to be another conservative Vol

Paul

SKB:

That is a cheap shot. Bill Hobbs does not need you to maintain any sort of “credibility.” He is one of the few guys you will find that does not need a surgical implant to have a backbone and stand up for the common guy. We do not always agree but he always makes me think. His logic is as solid as are his politics. He understands the state financial situation better than 99% of those elected or appointed to oversee that task. I for one could care less who you are but Randy Neal is a good name and anonymity is overrated. Sometimes I enjoy what you post.

But to think that someone needs to be affiliated with your outing, which as you pointed out is not a big deal, to be credible---is arrogant and a false dichotomy of facts. What is your motivation? Who knows? What is my motivation in responding? I think you over-reacted yet again. Keep writing as the SKB and be a good soldier of the left.

Any means necessary? You have been reading too much Malcom X or watching too much Denzil Washington lately. He simply made a small point. Let it go, you brought even more attention on it than anyone else. --JC

Mr. Hobbs, I am truly surprised that you would see skb as the one over-reacting. Perhaps, deep down, you're just as misinformed and mean-spirited as you are on the surface.

Your link to skb's site goes to Free Republic. Hmmmm. I wonder why that is.

SKB, my apology if I don't truly understand the situation. I read all the emails that Blake Wylie posted and it just struck me that Conley was being a jerk, but his email that prompted you to "out" yourself was not a genuine threat to do a story on you and reveal your identity, merely a juvenile statement that he could if he wanted to.

What Conley did was completely wrong, even if he didn't really plan on revealing your identity.

If there is more to the story you should reveal it.

As for your business suffering, I am going to predict that it won't at all for the very reason Paul cited above. If I was in the banking industry and needed the kind of product/service you sell I'd be more likely to do business with you, not less, even though I don't like your politics. The reason: you are someone who stands up for what you believe in.

Unapologetic: My site goes to FreeRepublic when I link to something on Bubba's site because Bubba has installed some sort of re-direct for people who click a link from my site to his. I strikes me as rather juvenile, but if that's what Bubba wants to do, fine by me.

Bubba: I'm really not trying to crush the left - just get my point of view out, and to spotlight stories and issues and facts that are being ignored or poorly covered by the mainstream liberal media.

Hmmm, there does seem to be some pathology to go around.

I for one will be glad to find out who this "Bill Hobbs" fellow is.

Hobbs, thanks for your comment. Yes, there is more to the story but there is no sense adding fuel to a fire I'm trying to put out. And my apologies for that last part, which I guess was too much of an "inside" joke and therefore uncalled for (sort of like that "mainstream liberal media" crack). Heh.

There is more to this story, indeed. I have witnessed South Knox Bubba out people on his own blog more than once. At least twice, he has mentioned their IP numbers and their places of work. In one attempted outing he accused Tom Nevin of Focus on the Family of posting anonymously to his blog. He referenced the IP number on this occasion, too. And he is now using a stupid e-mail exchange to vault himself into cult hero status among his followers. Well, pot, meet kettle. As a liberal, this kind of hypocracy makes me sick.

What Conley did was completely wrong, even if he didn't really plan on revealing your identity.

If there is more to the story you should reveal it.

What, like Conley dropping Bubba's wife's name (private information never disclosed) in email exchanges prior to this dustup? Or like Conley sending packages to Bubba's home address prior to the malicious exchange which led up to Bubba's outing? Or the fact that he gave this information to his staffers himself, while proclaiming that "somehow they found out" and that he didn't know how long they were going to keep that information under wraps?

All of this information is on the blog as part of the discussion, so it's not like this is really news. But he did come forward with this information in comments.

Looks like, however, that Conley has lawyered (and/or sobered) up -- there's an appropriately worded apology on the SKB webpage now.

There is more to this story, indeed. I have witnessed South Knox Bubba out people on his own blog more than once. At least twice, he has mentioned their IP numbers and their places of work. In one attempted outing he accused Tom Nevin of Focus on the Family of posting anonymously to his blog. He referenced the IP number on this occasion, too. And he is now using a stupid e-mail exchange to vault himself into cult hero status among his followers. Well, pot, meet kettle. As a liberal, this kind of hypocracy makes me sick.

And, as usual, you right-wingnuts don't give any context, ever. Bub posted IP addresses after trolls posted to the Comments section with all kinds of personal attacks and garbage designed to shut down the conversation.

But then, you've always got 1000 reasons why the rules should apply to someone else and never to yourselves, so I don't know why I'm bothering to post this.

Right-wingnuts? Look at your own words, Eleanor A. You say South Knox Bubba "posted IP addresses after trolls posted to the Comments section with all kinds of personal attacks." Well, what makes South Knox Bubba any different? And why the outrage over the prospect of someone revealing his identity when he behaves badly? Besides, anonymous bloggers, particularly someone as prominent as South Knox Bubba, are public figures. You have the right to remain silent, and you have the right to free speech. But you do not have the right to anonymity. If I hear that you are personally attacking one of my friends and I tell them you are doing it, you don't have any right to cry foul over it.

Tom Nevin of Focus on the Family was impersonating a Vietnam Vet, and was busted by SKB and myself coming from different directions. Surely conservatives can agree that impersonating a Vietnam Vet is pretty low and is certainly not showing support for our brave, hardworking soldiers.

I think SKB did the correct thing is revealing himself. He takes away the leverage and prevents any other wingnut from trying to blackmail him.

Whatever - it's water under the bridge now. I just wish SKB would come back! Take a rest, but come back to us, Bubba!