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Head on over to brand spankin’ new blog Cluestick 4 Bambi to keep up with John “academic professional” Bambenek’s hypocritical idiocy. In the latest Bambi drama, we learn that he is releasing his inner crotchety self with a “Get off my lawn you varmints” for the digital age, going after adults who play video games:
Yeah, good luck with that one Mr. No Fun.
Remember those good ol’ days before the Internets when these kooks kept to themselves under their rocks? Now, with the advent of the World Wide Web the gaggles of radical right-wingers who’ve found each other think they’re in the mainstream just because they’ve found the few other uber-cons who plugged their computers into the phone jack.
At least it makes for high comedy (when these hyperpartisans aren’t busy ruining our great nation that is).
A propos of nothing, the previous one-day record for overall visits to this blog had been 390 visitors; set last summer.
Yesterday, 382 folks enjoyed a single post on the comedic stylings of John Bambenek, filer of completely inane frivolous legal threats based solely on his myopic misreading of laws. That one post, at 382 reads (plus however many unrecorded views), nearly totalled the entirety of the previous one day record. (The overall site visits yesterday totalled 772 on the strength of a link from Kagro X, obliterating that old record.)
Call it the Bambi Effect: Mr. Bambenek’s moronic misinterpretation of the law and regulatory boards’ legal decisions is so spectacularly stupid that his idiocy was actually able to not just spike traffic to this blog, but blow the previous record out of the water.
Congrats on that dubious distinction, Bambi.
Now back to our regularly scheduled debunking of conservative lunacy.
Boo hoo.
Illinois Review editor Fran Eaton is rather upset that her bud John Bambenek is again being pilloried as a fool for his incredibly dense lack of reasoning when it comes to the application of electoral law. For some reason her dour mood has led her to pull a completely idiotic Potemkin argument out of her cracker jack box of irrational rants by suggesting that the American folks over at Daily Kos must be overly violent due to … video games.
What?!
Just in case you were wondering, “academic professional” John Bambenek apparently still hasn’t learned how to read, let alone comprehend basic concepts…
I’m wondering how long it’s going to take the Illinois Civil Justice League to notice that the conservative Mr. Bambenek really enjoys promoting frivolous lawsuits and other odds and ends. (But I’m not holding my breath.)
UPDATE: Kagro X offers several reasons why Mr. Bambenek is spectacularly stupid … and a few choice words for the regurgitating media who would bother to offer him a platform to publicize such stupidity as if it were somehow newsworthy.
Upon losing an FEC complaint which he originally announced with all the hoopla of a Dancing With the Stars promo claiming that the progressive Daily Kos blog was a political entity rather than the media outlet it is, conserv-o-partisan John “Myopic and Fuzzy” Bambenek got on his high horse and threatened to take the issue to Federal court so he could shoot spitballs there instead.
Far from the “brilliant timing” his packlike friends extolled, quite a few folks more logical than they pointed out his filing was completely without merit since the FEC had already decided the issue with a position exactly contrary to Mr. Bambenek’s complaint. Perhaps that was why the FEC slammed the door shut on Mr. Bambenek by dismissing his claim in record time. He lost his case in such a spectacular fireball of idiocy that the normally staid FEC chastised the guy for even wasting their time by typing up the complaint in the first place.
Still others — including this site — also explained just how Mr. Bambenek’s very same complaint against the progressive blog Daily Kos could also be made against just about every other political blog in existence in America, notably that of Mr. Bambenek’s friends at the conservative Illinois Review blog (where he himself has also occasionally posted). Thus, was his goofy short-sighted hypocrisy exposed in addition to his complete and utter lack of understanding of FEC guidelines.
Turns out Mr. Bambenek’s still a dork (and I say that with all the respect due someone of his intellectual caliber) since he’s now proven to be all talk and no action by letting the appeals filing deadline pass. Maybe he was too busy picking out his frozen turkee, but at least he finally listened to all the astute people in the room by not bothering to continue chasing his own little hypocritical windmill.
Why anyone continues to give this guy a forum for his fatuousness is unclear.
ArchPundit reports that today the FEC stated the obvious: John Bambenek has no clue what he’s talking about.
A few weeks ago John “the academic professional” Bambenek completed a stealth project of his and attacked the Daily Kos blog with a frivolous Federal Elections Complaint. In that filing, Mr. Bambenek claimed that Markos “Kos” Moulitsas and Kos Media, LLC were not running a media entity (a blog) but were somehow instead non-compliant Democratic Party operations and thus subject to FEC fines, etc.
Mr. Bambenek and his friends at the conservative blog Illinois Review were tickled pink with themselves and this stealthy project. Strangely, he did not file a complaint against the Ill Review blog even though they do the exact same thing the Daily Kos blog does (update: explanation of Illinois Review’s partisan activity here) — right down to directly advocating grassroots political involvement and donations through posts about candidates, the United Republican Fund, the Illinois College Republicans, and other partisan organizations.
Just one thing: Mr. Bambenek didn’t bother to actually read past FEC decisions and again proved himself to be an ignoramus.
Even conservative bloggers jumped all over Mr. Bambenek’s two-faced ignorance, repeatedly pointing out that the FEC had already decided a year before that private blogs were media entities and fell within the media exemption sections of political activity regulations.
And that is precisely what today’s FEC decision points out. In fact, Arch says, “John Bambenek filed a complaint lacking in merit to the degree that the FEC actually ruled on it in a reasonable amount of time” (emphasis added).
Mr. Bambenek and his ilk think they know how to not just run the state Republican Party better than the current gang in charge at IL-GOP, but that they also know how to do everything better than everyone else … just ‘cuz. “Just cuz” doesn’t fly for too long and it’s the reason conservative partisans of that stripe are falling out of favor not just in Illinois but nationally as well.
Without groups like the aforementioned URF for them to steer and blogs for them to play their Mighty Wurlitzer through (to help themselves sound important), they’d be laughed away. Instead, they’re given columns in newspapers (Mr. Bambenek wrote for the Daily Illini and still has columns at sundry blogs here and there) and quoted as sources for news articles.
These folks, whom I’m sure are fine citizens in their everyday lives, appear more and more often to be unable to grasp basic reality as this FEC ruling and earlier escapades like 2004’s Alan Keyes for Senate debacle demonstrate.
On Monday — despite the fact the FEC decided a year ago that the issue is moot — conservative partisan, pundit wannabe, publicity hound, election loser and Champaign-based “academic professional” John Bambenek filed an FEC complaint against Kos Media, LLC, the company operating the Daily Kos blog. Mr. Bambenek claims in his complaint that Kos Media is operating as an extension of the Democratic Party because some of its free press editorials overtly support and raise funds for that party and its candidates.
Unsurprisingly, and perhaps unwittingly, Mr. Bambenek’s friends at the Illinois Review (namely Review editor Fran Eaton) approvingly posted the information about his complaining ways. FYI, Mr. Bambenek is listed among the contributors to Illinois Review blog and has indeed posted his own editorials there.
The same day Mr. Bambenek announced his complaint to the world (why bother announcing it if not to simply seek infamy?), OneMan noted that Illinois Review had posted a “Help Wanted” editorial describing the need for Republican state rep candidates in Illinois since one had switched parties and two have already announced their retirement.
As comments to that thread reveal, this is clearly overt support for the Illinois Republican Party and its potential candidates… which begs the question, will Mr. Bambenek be filing a State Board of Elections complaint against the Illinois Review blog?
In fact, in recent campaign cycles — local, state and Federal — Fran Eaton’s and John Bambenek’s (among other contributors) Illinois Review blog has supported:
- the UIS College Republicans and leader Aakash Raut by promoting their efforts in municipal races;
- Congressional candidate Peter Roskam (R-IL 6th) in a friendly interview;
- U.S. Senate challenger Dr. Steve Sauerberg (R-La Grange, IL) of whom Ill Review editor Fran Eaton says, “We have a viable GOP candidate to run against Dick Durbin in 2008″ (emphasis added for clarification)
The Illinois Review blog has also advocated organizational, promotional and financial interests of Republican candidates and party groups:
- Editor Fran Eaton discussed the organizing of social conservatives and evangelicals, ostensibly to bolster Republican candidacies as noted in comments to that thread;
- Editor Eaton also promotes Republican informational sites such as the new 3B Site criticizing Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), which is paid for by the Illinois Republican Party;
- The Illinois Review maintains a calendar which promotes Republican fundraisers, party meetings and other gatherings
In fact, the Illinois Review blog’s partisanship is so stark and clear they even denounce Republicans who support Democrats as the contributors and commenters did in railing against supporters of Sen. Obama such as Republican strategist Matthew Dowd and State Sen. Kirk Dillard (R) (not to mention their fetish-like braying over recent Repub-turned-Dem State Rep. Paul Froehlich).
So, again, when is Mr. Bambenek going to apply his sense of complaining to his friends at the Illinois Review, a blog which does precisely the same thing as the Daily Kos blog? He clearly has his choice of complaining to the state or Federal elections commissions (or both).
Or maybe he’s just another partisan hypocrite.
