Subject: Jeff Goldstein Edits Own Comment to Avoid Looking Bad
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 10/5/09, 00:50
To: GGreenwald@salon.com
Glenn-
You probably haven't heard of me, but I believe you're familiar with Jeff Goldstein, the conservative blogger who founded Protein Wisdom. Anyway, I broke his brain over the weekend, leading him to announce that he was going to shut down his blog due to my recent article exposing the ridiculous behavior of his commenters and tying this in to a series I'm doing on the blogosphere and its implications regarding America's reputation. Then, after I linked to that comment, he changed it to remove some of the sillier bits as well as the threat to end his blogging career. Luckily, I took a screen shot of the original comment when he first posted it, as the fellow is proverbial for this sort of drama and falsification. A quick summary may be seen here: