An Inside Peek at OJB’s “Moderated Comments” — and Thus the OC Political Blogosphere Itself

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For those of you who are curious: this is an example of what’s usually in our “moderation” box of comments — those with characteristics that we’ve set to screen out (or that we place there manually if our screen missed them).

Do not try this at home (or anywhere.)

This is about two days of the sort of thing that we get in our inbox filter, most recent being first.  Let’s start at the bottom.

You’ll notice that two emails came from the same ISP address, with different names and (you’ll have to trust us on this) the same exact email address, the second one purporting to back up the first one — even though they came at the same time.  This is known as “sock puppetry” and it will get you banned.  If Ryan Vu reads this and wants to claim that someone was setting him up, he can tell us what we’ve cut out of his email address.

The middle one of the five strikes me as bigoted in singling out an expense on Muslims as the reason that OC has hungry children.  This sort of scapegoating is sort of repulsive — this money was not otherwise headed to hungry children, and one needed choose between feeding hungry children and giving a lot less honor to a Muslim festival than other religious festivals often get — but it’s unfortunately part of the political culture here so I approved it and hope that others will join me in rebutting it.

The top two, from Saturday morning, are typical of most of what we get.  Everything in the “Amnesty International” one — talk about tarnishing a good name! — is false.  The one above that warrants no response except that I wish that Oni, Jeff, Paul, and I could confront the person who keeps posting these things together and in person.

This person (or these people) apparently posts frequently in Chumley’s squalid little blog as well — which probably explains his move over the years from demanding the IP addresses of people posting at other blogs (in the “Northwood Night Stalker” days to supposedly being willing to defy any court order to give them up.  Well, I have to admit — I wouldn’t want to be associated with these sorts of people either, although not publishing them in the first place seems more reasonable than going to jail to protect them.

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About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)