A September BaconHead With A Side Order of "Bean"

As you may have seen in da comments section of this blog, there was a note from fine American Art Gallagher regarding an attack on his blog, MoreMonmouthMusings.

Now, in our great nation we great Americans have da right to do some pretty unbelievable things. One of those things is da freedom to be able to think for ourselves. Another is to actually stand by and even show support for a political party or a candidate for political office. No laws broken here - just facts from our founding fathers.

Senor Gallagher has that right. However, since he is not a "newspaper man," then there may be a small fringe out there that for some strange and potentially possibly personal reasons who don't believe he has that right - and maybe for a reason you might not think.

Recently, Mr. Gallagher and his fine and upstanding blog came under attack by former Snoozer editor, or as some call it, coupon weekly's Greg "Bozo" Bean. As MoreMonmouthMusings wrote on his blog, "The threats are real, only if you believe the convoluted logic of former Greater Media editor Greg Bean who awakened out of his semi-retirement to write a scathing column about me, this blog, our anonymous contributor Abram N. Spangel, and GOP 12th district congressional candidate Scott Sipprelle. I don’t know what it is with those Greater Media has beens, but Greg Bean and Kathy Baratta sure are obsessed with this blog."

Adding to this, "Has-Bean" made contact with MMM, and according to MMM said, "I am truly disgusted by it, and by you. Until today, I had some respect for your views, but that’s completely out the window. This is lower than daTruth Squad’s nutty (expletive), and that’s saying something."

Honestly, da rantings and ravings of "Has-Bean" are about as important to daTruthSquad as whether our favorite ice cream place on Business Route 33 has 31 or 32 flavors - but he does have da same rights as all of us to speak what he believes, thanks to da very First Amendment Manalapan lawyers tried to destroy. We believe it's something deeper. Now, if daTruthSquad can theorize, maybe there's a very good reason that they don't like MoreMonmouthMusings, or this blog either.

Here's daTruthSquad's theory:

Before ad advent of things like personal computers, smartphones, and basically any technology and da blogisphere after 2002, we only had newspapers to tell us things. We took their word to be true, because there was no real way to prove otherwise, and they cornered da market on local information. Then as these "newspapermen" watched in horror, along came blogging.

All of a sudden, proud newspaper folks now had something they never had before -- direct and almost instant competition. We didn't have to wait one week like a weekly coupon clipper does. We were instantaneous. All of a sudden, bloggers were breaking da news of da day faster than da newspapers could keep up. Was it "Has-Bean" or a blogger named Drudge who broke da Monica Lewinsky story? Was it "Has-Bean" or daTruthSquad who broke da whole "Because I Hate Italians" affair? Was it "Has-Bean" or daTruthSquad who showed everyone exactly what da whole "Da Township of Manalapan vs Da Mosked Man" lawsuit was all about? And, in some cases, proving that in some cases some newspapers may have had agendas.

Now, to be fair, someone like former Snoozer editor "Has-Bean" has da absolute right to say this blog is "Bull-@#$%", because much like we can nickname him "Has-Bean" we believe in da First Amendment. Everybody, including "Has-Bean" has da right to their opinions and beliefs, and we will not take away "Has-Bean's right to his opinions. That would be against what our Founding Fathers stood for when a number of them were anonymous bloggers of their day. "Has-Bean" has said many unusual things about this blog, as claiming once that what is written here "pulls da wings off flies" and that somehow we are a "dry gulcher." We could question what that meant, however those comments are so outwardly bizarre and we don't even have da first clue as to what he meant, so why bother.

What we do know is that this blog is actually indebted to "Has-Bean," since it was in one of his somewhat bizarre rants and off-on-a-tangent hysterics about this blog that we give him credit for inventing da word "BaconHead," a word that cannot even be found in da Webster's dictionary. Much like MoreMonmouthMusings, we also know that BaconHead winners "Has-Bean" and his former cohort Kathy Barratta for some strange and unknown reason seems to have a slight bit of disdain for this blog, and apparently they don't care much for MoreMonmouthMusings too.

And, to be fair, they have da right our Founding Fathers gave us to not like this blog or any other. However, from a purely psychological standpoint, one might think that they may think they are bigger and better than bloggers, because they use actual paper and maybe even typewriters to write what they wrote, and we bloggers use cyberspace?

Then, of course, there's da anonymity factor. As we learned in 2007 when da Manalapan Township Committee and their Manalapan Legal Dream Team attempted to sue this blog for what it was writing, a move that garnered worldwide scorn and outrage and even set a lstate and national legal precedent -- all while costing Manalapan taxpayers $$$$$$$, anonymity was not only upheld, those who tried to take it away were held to ridicule. And, lets not forget one of those, along with da Manalapan Legal Dream Team who wanted to remove da First Amendment-protected anonymity was "Has-Bean."

Sometimes, some people forget there were great patriots who blogged and wrote anonymously. People like Supreme Court Justice John Jay, founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton and Ben Franklin, folks that maybe "Has-Bean" might consider da "dry gulchers" of their day, and even a fine upstanding Monmouth County guy like Art Gallagher who rests on his shoulders da responsibility to tell daTruth and tell things like it is. All of their sacrifices and hard work and dedication to daTruth is what keeps daTruthSquad going - and we could not be here without them.

DaTruth is, despite what some who wear those funny paper newspaper hats might think, blogging is now not just on-par with newspapers, in some cases we in da blogisphere have pushed beyond paper pushers and maybe even dare we say have pushed beyond weekly coupon shoppers like da Snoozer. While we don't know da exact number of MoreMonmouthMusings readers, we know that number is quite large - and we also know statistically that daTruthSquad does pretty well too -- and our blogs don't litter driveways, get caught in da blades of lawnmowers or get shredded by snowblowers or just turn to mush on wet lawns.

This, of course, brings us to da September BaconHead Award.

Like we said before, anybody can be a blogger and blogs are everywhere. In fact, during a recent meeting in Manalapan of GOP'er candidates last week at da Monmouth County Library, at least three bloggers were in attendance. Two of them have blogs, or claim they do on their campaign website - Andy Boy & Jordan "Stu." Da other, of course, was daTruthSquad who was also in da County Library in a quiet and unassuming way milling about room and striking up a chat with some people in attendance, and we must admit there were a lot of people there.

Da BaconHead Award was created, ironically, to highlight da blunders or bizarre behavior or actions or statements of people who stick their foot deep into da hole of "duh." Many great Americans have won this award, from "Has-Bean" to da Queen to even former Governor Con-Zine, and it doesn't take someone with or without a brainpan to know why.

In this particular case, as MoreMonmouthMusings so eloquently pointed out, "That's why Greg Bean is not fair and biased. He's just biased, but tries to create da illusion that he's not. He's unfair and biased, like so many others in da media." Our friend and fellow blogger Art Gallagher has that right to make that statement. Honest Art also said, "I don't know if Bean really champions infanticide." If he does or not we don't care. That's up to him, which brings us up to this important point.

In this great nation of ours, we have da right to think and believe many things. We can believe in infanticide if we so desire, or -gasp - even decide to trust da blogisphere over coupon clipping weekly so-called newspapers. And, while we can't scream "fire" in a crowded theater, we can blog. DaTruthSquad has always had this underlying suspicion that folks like "Has-Bean" don't like bloggers because we do something that he does - write an "editorial" of da events of life. Are we stepping on "Has-Bean's" toes? Who is to say. However, you have to admit it makes a great theory.

DaTruth is, if Has-Bean wants to have only one source of information that people must and should read, then it's a sad assessment but he may be living in da wrong country. Here in da great US of A, we have this little thing that da Founding Fathers thought of called da First Amendment, freedom of choice, liberty, and yes - hard to believe - but we even have da right to read and dare we say - even write blogs! If Kommissar Has-Bean wants people to read his and only his scribings, then maybe he should consider a change of address, such as buying a new home on Barratta Alley" at Ahmadinejad-acres" in Tehran, or considering a job with da government press in North Korea. There he can guarantee he will have no other opinions getting in da way of his. In this nation, we have da right to disagree with opinions, and yes even blog about them, without da fear of being locked away eating half-cooked rice with da occasional luke-warm pumpkin soup in a North Korean labor camp.

So, for thinking that anonymous bloggers such as Abram N. Spanel, daTruthSquad and alike aren't deserving to share da same oxygen as a "paper boy," and maybe for even thinking that what eventually winds up in his bathroom's U-bend isn't all that odiferous, while we don't have any brain pans available, we do have a supply of BaconHead Awards --- and Greggo "Has-Bean" Bean, you sir are da proud recipient of da September award --- and we suspect there's probably more than enough room on your award wall to hang one of these.

And that's daTruth.