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Indymedia’s Brent Herbert scores a crushing victory over the MSM, which he claims is frantically removing pro-DDT articles from Google News in the wake of a mighty Herbert takedown:

Now only three remain, only one of which is pro-DDT. So I see that people have been busy pulling those stories, since they obviously were embarrassed by my post on Indymedia. Never let it be said that one person cannot make a difference, or that Indymedia does not matter, since apparently it does.

Speaking of embarrassment, Brent is unaware that Google News removes stories after 30 days.

Posted by Tim B. on 01/24/2007 at 11:20 AM
  1. Whoops.

    No, Brent, we’re laughing with you . . .

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 24 at 11:52 AM • permalink

  2. Lies!  Tim Blair lies!

    (wronwright goes back to article to read Sir Robin’s name again, one he’s never heard before and probably won’t again)

    Brent Herbert made a difference!  The MSM cowers before his majestic sword of truthiness.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 24 at 11:55 AM • permalink

  3. Ah, yes. The international publishing powerhouse that is - Indymedia!

    (snicker)

    Posted by mojo on 2007 01 24 at 11:56 AM • permalink

  4. One of Terry Lane’s hick relatives?

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 01 24 at 11:58 AM • permalink

  5. Whoops.

    No, Brent, we’re laughing with you . . .

    No, we’re not.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 24 at 11:59 AM • permalink

  6. RebeccaH,

    Shhh, that’s (heavy) sarcasm . . .

    ;^)

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 24 at 12:08 PM • permalink

  7. ???

    Indymedia poster capable of embarrassment?

    Suuuuuure.

    Posted by bovious on 2007 01 24 at 12:18 PM • permalink

  8. Never let it be said that one person cannot make a difference

    You need two people to make a difference.

    One could make a sum, though.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 01 24 at 12:27 PM • permalink

  9. Oh dear!

    A bit sad. eh?

    Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 01 24 at 12:36 PM • permalink

  10. That stalwart crusdaer Brent Herbert.  Millions of people in tropical climes will continue to die of malaria, but at least they aren’t using DDT, so they won’t die without moral authority.

    Posted by Mark V. on 2007 01 24 at 01:05 PM • permalink

  11. The author can find the evidence in my citation of the scientific survey of bed bug resistance to pesticides by the University of Kentucky.

    Maybe the bedbugs were lying.

    In any event, Brent, since you’re such a mighty man, can you do something about those extremely irritating mortgage ads on Yahoo? You know, the ones that show silouettes of people dancing? I really hate those things! Strike them down, Brent! Bend Yahoo to your will!

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 24 at 01:13 PM • permalink

  12. Oh geeze, paco, those ARE horrible aren’t they?  I can’t get off of the page fast enough. Damn those dorks at lowermybills.com - aaarrrggghhh!

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 24 at 01:18 PM • permalink

  13. You guys are just a bunch of nitpickers!

    Posted by Go Canucks on 2007 01 24 at 02:05 PM • permalink

  14. Yesterday I cursed the sun. Then I watched it fall! I made a difference.

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 01 24 at 02:30 PM • permalink

  15. Treacher!  I’m warning you!

    Posted by ushie on 2007 01 24 at 02:47 PM • permalink

  16. #12 Spiny: The really weird thing is that at least one of them features a woman who, even in sillouette, is, well, rather hefty. Probably the obnoxiousness of these ads is calculated, the result of some counter-intuitive marketing study.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 24 at 02:49 PM • permalink

  17. #16 paco

    I was wondering if you were referring specifically to the one with the fat chick.* Heh. Calculated? Oh, I’m sure they are: as they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity. We can’t ignore those ads, can we?


    *Since I quit smoking, I have no right to criticize . . .

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 24 at 03:00 PM • permalink

  18. Ever since Ushie warned Treacher, he has not added any further comments to this thread. Ushie has made a difference.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 24 at 03:04 PM • permalink

  19. In the south, we would listen to his bluster politely, shake our head, give a tsk or two, and simply say, “Bless his heart.”

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 01 24 at 03:24 PM • permalink

  20. Tim,
    I hope you have someone else to read all of these lefty whacko sites for you. I can’t believe the revenue from PETA, sweet as cashing the checks might be, could compensate for the psycological damage that might ensue from reading that crap every day.

    Posted by moptop on 2007 01 24 at 03:39 PM • permalink

  21. #17: They’re all pretty irritating: the cowboy line dance, the football player end-zone victory jiggle, and - ESPECIALLY - the crystal meth super-accelerated disco air grab. I swear, if I’d had my mortgage sourced by that outfit, I’d go pay it off.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 24 at 04:06 PM • permalink

  22. #21 paco

    Oh, yikes. The “super-accelerated” one makes me think I’m going to have a seizure. It reminds me of a hallucination scene from Jacob’s Ladder that makes me ill to this day.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 24 at 04:14 PM • permalink

  23. Oh you people are so clueless.  Don’t you understand?  Indymedia’s Brent Herbert—yes, that Brent Herbert—scored a crushing victory over the MSM!  When he hears how you mocked his achievement so maliciously, he will turn his focus to you next. 

    Each of you will be crushed.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 24 at 04:16 PM • permalink

  24. Oh noes! I’m a’skeered. The last thing I want is a Herberting!

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 24 at 04:45 PM • permalink

  25. #6, I understood, Spiny Norman.  Perhaps I should have added:  “We are, actually, laughing at you” to my post.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 24 at 05:09 PM • permalink

  26. OT Canadian friends

    Up to 20,000 Canadians may have unknowingly lost their citizenship by failing to celebrate their 24th birthdays in Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.

    Fox News

    Cripes, we have a Swiss cheese border on our South in the U.S. and this happens to you up there. Man we need some of that tough love…really.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 01 24 at 07:00 PM • permalink

  27. This is so stupid, I thought it satire.

    Of course, the real DDT story is covered very well by fellow australian Steve Milloy

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 24 at 07:51 PM • permalink

  28. The main reason that I use Firefox is because it allows me to Adblock those damn dancing mortgage ads…not only are they obnoxious, but it’s infuriating to think that they could be worsening the American trend of idiots buying far more house than they can afford.  A half-million dollar home with a three-figure mortgage payment?  What a scam.

    Oh, and about this guy.  What a tool.  Sure the MSM is afraid of some blogs…but not Indymedia.

    Posted by Kimberly on 2007 01 24 at 08:00 PM • permalink

  29. #16

    And what’s wrong with a bit of heft?

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 24 at 08:11 PM • permalink

  30. A bit OT, but if we’re talking about lefty delusions, this one seriously takes the cake.

    Please take time to read Ironshrink’s dissection of the biased “study” of conservative personality by a certain John Jost, Associate Professor of Psychology at New York Univesity. This has been picked up already by a couple of sites such as Junk Science and Numberwatch (yes, I know, my perennial favourites).

    One can easily dismiss the University of Woolongong as some third-rate backward safe house for irrelevant liberal lecturers, but I would have expected better stuff to emerge from NYU.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 01 24 at 08:45 PM • permalink

  31. #29: “And what’s wrong with a bit of heft?”

    Uh oh. Must think fast, must think fast . . . Ah!

    Did I ever mention what a scrawny little wretch Elle MacPherson is?

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 24 at 08:49 PM • permalink

  32. Nice save, Paco. (this time)

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 24 at 09:16 PM • permalink

  33. Spiny Norman—well, maybe we’re laughing towards him…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 24 at 09:30 PM • permalink

  34. Last night, as I put on my pyjamas, my bed was neat and tidy.
    This morning, when I woke, it was rumpled with the blankets strewn everywhere.
    I made a difference.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 24 at 10:12 PM • permalink

  35. I can stare at a cloud, and through sheer mindpower, make it disperse.

    I make so much difference, I even astound myself.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 01 24 at 10:24 PM • permalink

  36. All my life I’ve been pissing in the ocean. Ice caps are now reportedly melting. Yield to my awesome power, bitches!

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 24 at 10:30 PM • permalink

  37. In case you hadn’t guessed by now, Global Warming causes Global Terrorism.

    Not much of a stretch, I suppose, for the True Believer. When Carl Sagan claimed that we live in a “demon-haunted world”, he was exactly right, but not quite the way he thought.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 24 at 10:44 PM • permalink

  38. Posted at LGF, btw.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 24 at 10:52 PM • permalink

  39. #23: Oh no! Brent Herbert has found me! He’s crushing me! Can’t . . . resist. . . pressure . . . all . . . is . . . lost.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 24 at 10:57 PM • permalink

  40. #37: In case you hadn’t guessed by now, Global Warming causes Global Terrorism.

    Time for a little reverse engineering.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 24 at 10:59 PM • permalink

  41. In case you hadn’t guessed by now, Global Warming causes Global Terrorism.

    Yeah, because it’s not like Global Terrorism could be caused by hordes of ignorant people with a fanatical belief in a religion.

    Oh.  Wait a minute…

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 24 at 11:28 PM • permalink

  42. From your link, Spiny

    “You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries,” al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 “letter to the American people.”

    Guess we just found out Heidi Cullens real name, huh?

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 01 24 at 11:36 PM • permalink

  43. Don’t think Osama thought about that one when he attacked the States and incinerated a few places…you son-of-a-whore….WE will get your and your ilk for that yet, goat fucker.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 01 24 at 11:39 PM • permalink

  44. Nah, Heidi may be a Globular Wormining High Priestess, but when is comes to bloated political hyperbole, she’s just an neophyte.

    On that note, the short-bus kids at DU think “decertifying” the heretics is hardly good enough.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 25 at 12:51 AM • permalink

  45. *it*

    Pffftttt!

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 25 at 12:56 AM • permalink

  46. #30 Dminor

    Excellent link.

    Posted by Francis H on 2007 01 25 at 01:28 AM • permalink

  47. more like a deference to the voices in his head telling him how very important he is

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 25 at 07:51 AM • permalink

  48. Hmmm.

    What the hell is IndyMedia?

    Posted by memomachine on 2007 01 25 at 11:37 AM • permalink

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