You’re sure you want to bring the author of that piece, Siegel in as defender of Palin’s mendacity?
http://www.reason.com/news/show/36947.html
Lee Siegel, who had been writing a culture blog for The New Republic, had started using the pseudonym “sprezzatura” on the blog’s forums to praise himself and savage his critics. In response to readers who had criticized Siegel’s negative comments about TV talk show host Jon Stewart, “sprezzatura” wrote, “Siegel is brave, brilliant, and wittier than Stewart will ever be. Take that, you bunch of immature, abusive sheep.”
After a reader expressed suspicion that “sprezzatura” was Siegel himself, he fired back, “I’m not Lee Siegel, you imbecile.”
…Lee Siegel’s online identity was “Lee Siegel” since he was blogging under that name. For him to create a pseudonym and use it as he did would not be acceptable practice on any Internet forum, and shouldn’t be acceptable practice in journalism. Siegel invented a patently fake identity for his sock puppet, pretending to be “an editor at a magazine in NYC” who had published Siegel. His attacks targeted not only anonymous posters but journalists writing under their own names, such as The American Prospect’s Ezra Klein.
…his behavior has been a depressing combination of dishonesty, narcissism, and stupidity.
Nice work. Any other very trustworthy sources of journalism you’d like to reference?
