“Obscure Conservative Blogs With Tiny Audiences”

I reckon Patterico and Glenn Greenwald won't be sitting down to a nice cup of tea anytime soon. Patterico is calling Greenwald - hard - on Greenwald's latest post.

Glenn Greenwald is spreading disinformation about “The Path to 9/11.” In this post, he endorses the myth — previously propagated by Think Progress and FireDogLake, and previously debunked by me — that the producers of “The Path to 9/11″ are so desperate to push the film to conservatives that they even provided an advance screening to obscure conservative blogs with tiny audiences, like mine:

Think Progress has documented that bloggers with — to use Hewitt’s sneering description — “tiny” audiences received screeners, but they were individuals who were certain to ooze with praise for the film. And ooze with praise is exactly what they did (emphasis added).

The link is to Justin Levine’s praise for the film on this blog, which Greenwald then quotes, and terms “drooling, mindless praise.”

As when Think Progress noted that this blog is “obscure,” Greenwald argues that my blog has a “tiny” audience. Why are Think Progress and Greenwald so obsessed with the admittedly relatively small audience of my blog? The clear implication is that the publicists for “The Path to 9/11″ are so desperate to reach out to conservatives that they are giving advance screenings to the most “obscure” blogs with “tiny” audiences, like this one.

This is either disingenuous bilge, or lack of familiarity with the facts. I have already explained, and Justin has confirmed, that Justin received his advance screening, not because the publicists knew he would be writing guest posts on an “obscure” blog with a “tiny” audience — but because he produces the highest-rated morning talk radio show in Los Angeles.

You really have to go over and read the whole thing. I've said it before, I would not want to be prosecuted by Patrick. He has his ducks all lined up.

I think it's also time to state unequivicably that this particular blog is too obscure to have been given an advanced copy of anything! We also don't get the sockpuppets Patterico gets. We're green with envy.

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  By A friend from Europe, Sunday, 10 September , 2006 @ 8:07 am

  Path to 9/11 is not the only inaccurate and misleading docudrama.
  The movie United 93 is described as “meticulously researched” and “based on fact”, but there is not any indication that the German passenger Christian Adams was indeed a coward and appeaser and tried to stop the American heroes from storming the cockpit as the movie shows. The Guardian’s film critic writes: “The film United 93 finds old Europe literally standing in the way of US derring-do. The only trouble is, it didn’t happen that way.”
  Perhaps you are interested in my take on this in the Atlantic Review: German 9/11 Victim Defamed in “United 93″ Movie.

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  By syn, Sunday, 10 September , 2006 @ 8:47 am

  Considering Europe is now Eurabia I have’nt much care left for what Eurabians think about inaccuracies. To lie is Allah’s will.

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  By Quilly Mammoth, Sunday, 10 September , 2006 @ 9:06 am

  Path to 9/11 is not the only inaccurate and misleading docudrama.

  You are reviewing a movie you haven’t even seen?

  Perhaps you are interested in my take on this in the Atlantic Review.

  Uhmmmm…nope. Since you just stated an opinion about a movie you haven’t even seen why should we believe what you wrote about another one?

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