Heh. The wingnuts in the rightwing Blogosmear were circulating a fake e-mail supposedly written by Gregg Easterbrook. Now the e-missive-in-quo appears to have disappeared, in some places without explanation. But were they making shit up or just being dupes as per usual? p>I also think it's interesting that RW Blogosmear has shown sudden interest in workers' rights and media consolidation, if only for the benefit of one whiny, privileged pundicrat who looks a lot like themselves. Wal-Mart and Albertson's can fuck their workers until Judgment Day without engendering criticism, but if one blowhard with a blog should fall, that surely diminishes us all.

And (if I may engage in a bit of informed character assassination) at least some of those jokers would have "P.C." in every other sentence of their posts if the target of Easterbrook's particular rant had been Arabs, Muslims or African-Americans. Update (10/23): Apparently one of the original posters of the e-mail is saying it's not a fake, while Easterbrook is denying authorship. At this point, I say, who gives a shit I've taken down the link, which wasn't even a correct link in the first place (it was to the Bush Blog), and I can't remember what I had intended to link to.

On the other hand, my statement:

As Instacracker would say, "that's the majesty of the blogsphere... you can fabricate stuff and then delete it and whine about the French some more."

now seems scarily prescient! Heh.