Donald Luskin Threatens to Sue Atrios

[maha]

Donald Luskin Is a Stalker

Atrios at Eschaton has been threatened with legal action by none other than the utterly worthless Donald Luskin. I'm so jealous!

Luskin, a complete waste of human protoplasm who makes a living by slandering the most excellent Paul Krugman, apparently was offended by something Atrios posted on October 7. And all it was was a header, "Diary of a Stalker," followed by a link to Luskin's web page, in which Luskin admitted to seeking out a Paul Krugman book signing.

So Luskin's lawyers wrote to Atrios and his web publisher with the threat of a suit if they don't remove the offending blog, along with some comments from others about the blog. The lawyers say they will take legal action. This includes issuing a subpoena to Blogger to get Atrios's real identity.

Considering that Luskin should have had several restraining orders put on him long before now -- this is rich.

As Orcinus puts it,

What's especially bizarre about this case is the spectacle of a guy who makes his living making personal attacks on a respected economist -- many of which, frankly, border on the libelous -- turning around and suing someone for being critical of his behavior. Then again, we've always known that conservatives can dish it out, but can't take it.

Luskin has just proven definitively that he has no business being a blogger himself. He has earned a complete freezeout from the rest of the blogosphere -- because, of course, we now all run the risk of being sued by the guy for even mentioning his name or opining on his work, not to mention allowing others to comment on it. Anyone who links to this cretin henceforth should be shunned as well.

A few weeks ago we bloggers ridiculed Faux News's suit of Al Franken by putting "Fair and Balanced" on our blogs. I propose that we all write "Donald Luskin Is a Stalker" on our blogs at least once a day. But don't link to his blog; link to this Trend Macrolytics page that includes Luskin's photo (Luskin is Chief Investment Officer). What do you think?

[librechik]

1. snicker

luskin needs to chill-- he's pre-occupied with bizarre religious concepts, like krugman is the face of evil. he deserves a 48 hour hold in a good psych ward.

[La_Serpiente]

2. I am hoping

that someone is planning a massive hacking attack against luskin's blog.

[Jim Sagle]

5. I'm not hoping for any such thing. Because that would be wrong.

;-)

[americanstranger]

6. Nope, not a hack attack...

But for all you bloggers out there - Friday is 'Donald Luskin is a Stalker' Day.

He's gonna be paying that shyster double-secret overtime churning out threatening letters to the hundreds of blogs who will participate on Friday.

Luskin will figure out that you can't file a frivilous lawsuit against one blogger - he'll have to file frivilous lawsuits against hundreds of us.

-as

[carpetbagger]

3. From Luskin's article "We Stalked. He Balked"

"But as Bush's performances during the Iraq war and on the deck of the Lincoln show, he is neither uncomfortable nor foolish — and based on the polls, the American people know it. "

Whatever, dude. Keep on stalking.

BTW, the email address of Luskin's lawyer is [e-mail] . Maybe someone ought to point out that Luskin calls himself a stalker.

[CarlBallard]

4. We need a term for the Repukes who support tort reform but sue

at the drop of a hat. But I can't think of any good ones.

[maha]

7. hypocrites? n/t

[rucky]

8. Chickensharks?