If you need a reason to fight, I've got one

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bond-Web-Site.html

October 2, 2003
Aide to Mo. Sen. Bond Fired Over Web Site
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 9:51 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missouri Republican Sen. Kit Bond on Thursday fired his communications director for running a political Web site named for the tail number of a plane that crashed in 2000, killing the state's Democratic governor.

``The actions of a member of my staff in using official computers to make hurtful personal attacks on public servants were totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated,'' Bond said in a statement issued Thursday.

The staff member was Ernie Blazar, Bond's communications director the past three years. Bond aide Jason Van Eaton confirmed Thursday that Blazar had been fired.

The Web site had Republican-leaning commentary with links to political news and other Web sites. Blazar, using pseudonyms, apparently ran the site and e-mailed other political Web sites during working hours, and some of it was done on his
Senate computer.

The site's title -- N8354N -- ``is not random,'' a note on the Web site read. ``It marks an inflection point in current Missouri politics. On that day, the worm began to turn.'' Content was removed from the site early Thursday morning.

Gov. Mel Carnahan was running for Senate when his plane crashed Oct. 16, 2000. He was elected posthumously and Carnahan's widow, Jean, was appointed to take his place.

...more...

[proud patriot]

1. Crap !

unfriggin real ..

[DoveTurnedHawk]

2. Thugs Imploding All Over

I fucking love it. Scumbags.

DTH

[Forkboy]

7. No kidding

Something has definately changed this week.They're getting hammered,and rightfully so...finally!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. William I do believe

they are starting to implode all over... but this is
when they will be the most dangerous... as any body
who has dealt with wild animals know... they attack
when cornered.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. To coin a phrase from the Enron debacle

The right wing seems to be "imploding" under the weight of their own hatred and violence.

[Sparky McGruff]

5. It looks like it was on blogspot

Some of the info is still in Google's http://tinyurl.com/pjmb
">cache, but it's not on the internet "wayback machine" archive.

Way to win friends and influence people! The good bad news keeps rolling along!

Placed stories or the media following the herd? You make the call!

[kodi]

6. and its taboo to talk about laura "crash" bush's driving habits?

??

[Cocoa]

8. If this guy was capable of doing something like this

I bet his scumminess should have been obvious to Bond all along.

[jbm]

9. man....

this is low. I live in Missouri and this had better be headlines in tomorrows papers.It's funny,I used to think that the repubs that represented my area were a little less 'creepy' then some on the national level,but between this and overturning the conceal and carry vote..I've changed my mind. Thanks for the link.

[KT2000]

10. Out of control!

All of these disgusting stories - the leak, this web site, Rush, their behavior over Wellstone's death are signs that these people are out of control.

It starts in the White House - out of control!
Tom DeLay - out of control
etc.

[Skittles]

11. I...........................ER................................

it saddens me that people can be that vicous and cruel. It's so, SO ugly. But typical republican politcs. I'm sure Uncle Karl would approve.

[Bake]

20. But of course we should feel COMPASSION for them.

Not in this universe!

Bake

[ShaneGR]

12. wow

I don't even know what to say to that. I'm just amazed at the indifference to life.

[calimary]

13. Every time I think they've stooped to the lowest, something like this

happens.

OKAY, guys, that TOLL FREE CAPITOL HILL SWITCHBOARD NUMBER AGAIN...

1 (800) 839 - 5276 - it's the best one, I think.

UNLESS you like 1 (800) 648 - 3516

You can be switched for free to Kit Bond's office where you can sound off. Granted, he did the righ thing in firing this asshole, but he should be reminded that WE ARE WATCHING, and WE ARE WELL AWARE THAT THIS IS, BY NOW, A PRETTY TYPICAL RETHUG TACTIC.

We ought to demand a way to contact Ernie Blazar and give him hell!

Shit. This makes me embarrassed to say I'm originally from Missouri.

We SHOULD spread this far and wide. The Dem-CA groups had it, too. JUST COMPLETELY REVOLTING!!! This man will burn in hell for it. Or should.

[woofless]

14. Brought to you by

the same fine folks who gave you John Ashcroft.

[Mari333]

27. John Asscrack may soon go down in flames also

http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0310/03/d01-287752.htm

It gets better and better.

[stevedeshazer]

15. For every guy like this joker

I'll bet there are a hundred more, just waiting to be discovered. :grr:

[Cush]

16. Olbermann mentioned this tonight

on his show

[REP]

17. Sure, Bond is Shocked I Tell You, SHOCKED

Not.

Kit Bond is one of the lowest fucking pieces of slime to ever blight my home state, and I am positive he knew about the site, and this is him merely covering his ass by firing his aide.

On edit: see
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F18664616

[woofless]

18. Amen

and don't forget our old buddy Gene Taylor.

[AndyTiedye]

19. They Murder our Senators and Dance On Their Graves

and taunt us with stuff like this because they're sure the law can't touch them.

[angka]

26. this is a taunt, isn't it?

This site chronicles whether Missouri will remain a so-called political swing-state through the 2004 elections. Missouri Republicans are on the march here. Not clear whether this is a freak occurence or the start of something more permanent. Animal entrails, political tea-leaves and the detritus of daily news clips will be scoured to divine the pace and direction in the power shift now underway. The title of this blog is not random. It marks an inflection point in current Missouri politics. On that day, the worm began to turn.

i'm physically sick.

[joanski01]

21. Thanks for saying this.

It is exactly what I was thinking. I'm sure that scumbag knew. The aide was doing this for three years and nobody knew, hah! Everyone who works in an office knows what others are doing on their computers.

[REP]

22. The Danforth-Ashcroft-Bond Troika

They've been thick as thieves for years, and I can easily see Bond allowing an anti-Democrat website to be worked on from his offices; especially one that is so disrespectful to Mel Carnahan, who embarassed Ashcroft by beating him even though he was dead.

[charlie]

23. Heh

Look at this exchange:

Thanks for the mention.

It is a new site devoted to trying to chronicle what looks like a clearly defined major shift in Missouri politics.

I did change taglines early in the evolution of the site. "What Would Truman Do" was just not sharp enough. So I dumped it.

If you divine the meaning of the new tagline -- N8354N -- you will understand the precise moment when the fortunes of the Missouri Democratic Party begain to slide.

Stay tuned. And thanks for the good words.
Posted by: John Coyote at October 1, 2003 01:01 PM

...

John,

Something happened to your sites...it appears the content has been erased.
Posted by: Sophorist at October 2, 2003 03:27 PM

...

Something happened to his job, too.
Posted by: Jade at October 2, 2003 06:23 PM

http://www.sophorist.com/archives/000371.html

Google Cache of the N8354N site

Here's his mirror called What Would Truman Do, which is now deleted, except the poor fool forgot to dump the archives:

http://wwtd.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_wwtd_archive.html

Note the big difference -- on WWTD he affects the persona of a concerned Democrat. Wily little shit isn't he?

[REP]

24. Kick

Too important too miss.

[angka]

25. most despicable thing yet?

google still has a cache of the site available if you'd like to be thoroughly disgusted.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:wrLOXbdEI10J:www.n8354n.blogspot.com/+N8354N&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

so, what was the tail number on wellstone's plane?

i will not rest until these criminals are removed from power. this makes me very, deeply, angry.

[QC]

28. This one needs a kick!

:kick:

[sistersofmercy]

29. Still see a lot of Carnahan bumper stickers, he was loved.

A heads up if you're interested, here in St. Louis our three biggest grocery stores are about to be picketed, Dierbergs, Schnucks and Shop n Save. They have union employees, the union and owners can't reach an agreement. This is huge because many delivery trucks etc are also union. It'll be interesting to see what some of the biggies, like AB do. Unions are big here and St Louis is a picketing town.
In a somewhat defense of the food chains, they are saying it's hard to compete with Wal-mart. The St. Louis Post Dispatch is in quite squirmish with Wal-mart and pretty much trying to get ppl to boycott Wal-mart. Ah, the Show Me state.