I need to get in touch with James Wolcott but don't have his e-mail address; could you forward him this message as soon as you get a chance, please?
Hi, James-
This is Barrett Brown; I occasionally write for VF's Politics and Power blog. I remember you being involved in some exchanges with Jeff Goldstein, whom I've known for a while, so you'll get a kick out of this. I just wrote an article about his blog and his ridiculous toy fascist commenters, which made him very upset and prompted him to throw one of his inimitable tantrums, manifested partly in my inbox and partly on his own blog, where he posted a comment to the effect that he was going to shut down Protein Wisdom over my article. Later, he realized he'd made a fool of himself again, so he edited his comment to remove that part and a few other things. As I'd already linked to that comment from my own article and discussed its implications a bit as well, I had no choice but to alert my readers that he'd changed his words on the sly It would have been my word against his had I not take a screen shot of his original comment, as I did.
The article itself, which details the nonsense I encountered at his blog over a period of two years, may be found here:
The part about the falsified comment may be found at the end.
Let me know if you'd also like me to forward you the ridiculous e-mails he's been sending me over the past couple of days; he has already published one of mine without permission, so I consider them fair game for distribution.