Even the left can get it right once in a while. Using the school computer can not be defended by either side.

If he or anyone else wanted to conduct a counter rally to the TP rally, that’s fine. As long as he didn’t violate any laws or school policies ( doing this on school time), I say, bring it on Jason.

You can almost see where Colby had pre-written this story… and the changes he made after writing it:

Fox New host Megyn Kelly had on radio hosts Mike Gallagher and Mark Levin for what was introduced as a “fair and balanced debate,”
That was written prior to him watching the segment.

…and lived up to its promotion!
And that’s the “added bit” had had to give it afterwards. It’s interesting we can see Colby’s initial narrative about the story… which was going to be the debate wasn’t balanced. It’s like journalistic mad-libs… the story is written before the event takes place, and then edited if the “predictions” don’t come true.

Oh, and the most interesting part of the story was that he (apparently) told people to try to get Social Security numbers on people attending. That’s far and above “counter-protesting.” As one of the guests said… that’s identity theft.

ImNotBlue says:
April 16, 2010 at 4:07 pm

Colby was obviously disappointed it was a civil discussion, and probably shocked that they both thought Jason should be fired.

Mediaite is becoming a HP clone and it has HP rejects on here, as well.

ms. Kelly asked a very good question at the end that I would love to hear answered. If the tea party people are all what the left accuses (racist, violent etc.) why do they (anti-tea partiers) need to stage this cr*p? Why not let them do themselves in? Any leftist out there care to answer that for me?

Even Bill Clinton is trying to marginalize the Tea Party today. The Liberals seem to be very concerned about them.

@Cobly. You need to correct your article. It says “Mark Levin” when in fact it is Mark Levine on with Kelly. I was hoping to see The Great One Mark Levin, and was dissappointed to see it was Levine…Oh well.

Moderate says:
April 16, 2010 at 5:11 pm

Even Bill Clinton is trying to marginalize the Tea Party today. The Liberals seem to be very concerned about them.”

You mean the already marginalize racist, as liberals called him during the primaries?

Its Mark Levine, not Mark Levin.

The guy has the right to create the website and unless he used school computers, I don’t think he can be fired for a legal activity that he did on his own time.

And, as I commented to the previous post because it bears repeating… He’s just a guy who spent less than $20 to create a website, then one assumes that he sent a couple of tweets, made a few blog comments and last I heard, it was linked from his MySpace page. Whatever he may have been advocating did not become a movement or anything beyond a guy with minimal web skills and a couple of online friends until the conservative media broadcast his cause.

Of course after all this publicity, the guy’s probably going to end-up on a speaking tour and I believe his side business is something computer related, so he’ll probably pick up a few clients. Not bad for less than twenty bucks and a Saturday afternoon spent generating a site. I’m sure he’s thanking Fox News for spreading the word.

This is a fool who bit off more than he could chew. Read the local media on this story. He says he”s received death threats (and with all the nutbars and whackjobs of all stripes in this area, I don’t doubt it), he didn’t even attend the Tea Parties in the area and he’s putting the web site up for sale. It would take the school all of about 24 hours to determine if he’s misused school property or time, so I think his “suspension” is more about the death threats he’s claiming he received. Not many moms and dads around here are going to want to send their kids to school if their teacher is announcing that he’s getting death threats. The Kip Kinkel shootings are still in the minds of people here, even after 12 years.

Can you imagins the “magisters” of the worlds outrage if this guy was a tea partier threatening to hijack a progressive cause or function? LOL! It sounds the billy ayers “defense.” He didn’t kill anyone, so who cares?

When I read Mike Gallagher and Mark Levin debate and there was name calling. I’m going What??? Then I see its Mark Levine. I immediately knew who was doing the name calling before I watched the video.

@Olby Sucks: I’ve actually been involved with a couple, if not more than a few groups that have been targeted by “coup” attempts over the years. Though they’re not related to this particular subject, I can think of at least one that was infiltrated by people who are likely Tea Party sympathizers and another that was actually taken over by progressives, so the original folks decided to start a new club.

But, my point is that this wasn’t an organized effort. It was just a guy with twenty bucks and because it was concrete cover behind which the Tea Party folks could hide, if something were to go awry, their media gave it outlandish amounts of publicity. I mean, heck, the guy didn’t even go to a rally and though he never had any followers, I haven’t seen a lot to indicate that his offhanded suggestion was in any way successful.

It’s a pure media story, nothing more.

Levin was doing many of his blogging postings while on the job.

He should be more concerned with teaching the children than the Tea Party.

He was also trying to get people to do identity theft…which is a crime.

He wanted social security numbers of people so he could, as he said “F*ck with them”.

That is illegal.

@Latin2: If there actually was a post that was deleted and if he did actually write it, it’s still not a crime to suggest that people find out as much information as possible, even Social Security numbers, if someone is moronic enough to give them to you. It would be a crime to use the social security numbers for identity theft because identity theft is a crime and there may be a statute that forbids possessing or gathering them, but it’d be a hard sell to say that suggesting it is a firing offense.

And I’m sorry, but the dude spent his $20 because he was apparently upset by what he had seen in the media coverage; Do we really want to start folks down the road of identifying the employers of every person photographed with a racist sign, then if their employment contract or community standards wouldn’t dictate firing for implied racism, folks could just start picketing their places of business?

The guy got five of his fifteen; The Tea Party got their cover, which is obviously why conservative media pushed the story so hard and the best I can tell, the Tax Day events helped take the movement a little more mainstream. Pretty much, everybody won.

Jason Levin posting on blogs while at work;

http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/screenshot-proof-anti-tea-party-teacher-jason-levin-calls-for-politically-motivated-identity-theft-online-at-%E2%80%9Ccttp%E2%80%9D-during-school-hours/

Fellow employees and students said they would see him in class posting on twitter and blogging.

If the tea party the people all of the accused left. I can think of at least those that were infiltrated by people who are most likely tea sympathizers with the party, and another which took actually more progressive, and thus people are the original and decided to start a new club.
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This MAGGOT got what was coming to him. He should be prosecuted for attempted ID theft as he suggested that his evil followers make up phony petitions about being against Socialism just to get Tea Party people to sign them and give them their SS numbers, addresses, phone numbers, etc. They had plans to use the information they gathered against the innocent people in the Tea Party. This DIRTBAG should be fired from his job as a middle school teacher. He is SCUM! It’s easy to see why so many people are Home Schooling their kids instead of sending them to these Liberal Indoctrination Factories to be brainwashed by scumbags like Jason Levin.

So – what we have here is one guy on a school computer and he put Fox Not News Channel and Hannity and the Teabaggers into a total tizzy about some ‘vast left wing conspiracy’ as termed by Hannity himself. ONE GUY and ONE COMPUTER shook the right to its foundations!! The real revelation, so obvious, is that he right, the teabaggers, the Republicans, Fox Not News, all thrive on fear and paranoia.

“ONE GUY and ONE COMPUTER”

It only takes one guy with a poorly worded sign at a Tea Party rally to make the lead story in main stream media.

“Moderate says:
April 17, 2010 at 8:12 am
“ONE GUY and ONE COMPUTER”

It only takes one guy with a poorly worded sign at a Tea Party rally to make the lead story in main stream media.”

Oh,if it were only ‘one guy with a poorly worded sign.’ But it wasn’t. Here’s 30 of them. Oh, and don’t forget Dale Robertson.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/16/tea-party-signs-the-most_n_539770.html

@Moderate: Judging from most local coverage, one guy with one sign at a rally in Oregon probably wouldn’t even make their local news.

Magister seems to have a lot of self claimed insight. He was part of some mysterious events that were subjected to coups, not just one, but multiple! And he says “at least one that was infiltrated by people who are likely Tea Party sympathizers.” He doesn’t tell us how he knows this, HE JUST KNOWS! He also KNOWS the hidden reasons behind the Tea Partiers reaction to this. He also seems to know exactly what actions the jerk took, how he took them and why.

One question Magister, when your knee jerks do you knock your computer off the desk?

@RichS: I have common sense and vast amounts of experience.

Now, I could describe the attempted “coups”, but they really have nothing to do with Tea Parties. Instead, I’ll let you know that the by-product of modern media, where anybody can issue an email blast and be reported as some kind of “movement” is a pet peeve of mine.

I mean there’s nothing to indicate that this guy was going to anything more than show-up at his local rally, which I honestly doubt he ever really intended to do. And he registered the domain on the 3rd to vent about an event on the fifteenth and when the whole thing blew-up in the media, he quickly changed the registration data from his legitimate info.

A while back, you might say that I picked the wrong horse, but I ran up a brief profile of a Florida group that wanted everyone to flag prostitution ads on Craigslist on a single day. It appears that the group sought publicity mostly by targeting emails to outlets that had covered Craigslist prostitution and they commented with their addy in the related media forums.

If you look at the stats for the Florida group, they were actually more legitimate than the guy from Oregon, but unfortunately for them, there was nobody motivated (or flabbergasted) enough to publicize their cause, so though they did get a little publicity, they were only able claim about 6000 ads.