Bill Conlin: Professional A-hole

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Philadelphia Sportswriter Invokes Hitler
Published 11/24/2007 by Al <al@bleedcubbieblue.com> at Bleed Cubbie Blue: Front Page Posts
... Oh, man. Where do I even start with this? It is, first of all, fear showing on his part; fear that we bloggers might actually know something about what we write -- I, personally, take the comparison with the 18th-Century "Pamphleteers" as a badge of honor, as those men were among those who helped the colonial Americans throw off their shackles of bondage. The reference to Hitler? Well, dajafi wrote at The Good Phight: ...

Sportswriter Bill Conlin Praises Hitler in Attack on Bloggers
Published 11/24/2007 by Rev Halofan <info@halosheaven.com> at Halos Heaven: Front Page Posts
... In attacking bloggers, Conlin goes all fanboy messageboard in an email retort to an internet sportsblogger, invoking a pleasurable presumption on how Adolf Hitler might have treated bloggers. Basically you just have to read the blow-by-blow to believe it, and it is still pretty unbelievable. ...

Clarification on the Conlin Comments
Published 11/24/2007 by Bill Baer at crashburnalley.com
... is anti-Semitic. I can’t faut anyone for taking it this way, but it wasn’t actually an anti-Semitic comment. It probably minimalized what happened in Hitler’s holocaust, but his intent behind the comment was that the world would be better if bloggers didn’t have a voice provided by the Internet, and that Hitler probably would have made sure we didn’t. Plenty of readers have pointed out that his comments about pampleteers and such were historically inaccurate and/or hypocritical. The Good Phight does a good job of proving most or all of this. Bill Conlin made those comments as ...