Rick Moran is a low-level conservative commenter at Pajamas Media and his own site, "Right Wing Nuthouse". He's also the brother of Terry Moran of ABC News. Earlier today he offered "IT’S PAST TIME TO INOCULATE CONSERVATISM AGAINST THE BIRTHERS" at his site [1] in which he offered the same old misleading claims regarding the Obama citizenship issue.

Shortly after I left a comment, my IP address - a dynamic address used by many other potential readers of his site - was banned (it received a 403 error). See the first comment I left at [2]. After being unable to load his site again, I then used lynx from a web hosting account and saw that my comment was still there. What I missed is that he'd added a cutesy little note after my comment: "Buh-Bye". So, I left another comment [3]. That also has a cutesy little note appended (expletive edited out): "Maybe if you read the g*******d article you’d know you were banned, idiot. And banned again."

Obviously, instead of attempting to debate me or even trying to show how I'm wrong in any way, Moran just put his hands over his ears. At least he didn't delete the comments. And, the important take-away is that, in addition to Moran not being able to provide any sort of counter-argument, he's also not taking advantage of a golden - and I mean golden - opportunity to discredit dozens of reporters. He's also reducing the number of people who can read his site.

And, what he doesn't know is that I have dozens upon dozens of IP addresses available to me...

[1] rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2009/07/22/
its-past-time-to-inoculate-conservatism-against-the-birthers

[2] FIRST COMMENT:
If, unlike many, you trust Rick Moran, consider his sloppy thinking above. For instance, he says that “the state of Hawaii released” BHO’s cert. In actual fact, the BHO campaign put on their website a picture of something they say they got from the state of HI. To people like Moran that doesn’t matter. However, when dealing with legal issues it’s the difference between night and day. The cert wasn’t “released” by the issuing agency to the public, it went through the BHO campaign. Imagine, for instance, in a criminal trial that someone left evidence sitting out in the open overnight; that would be tainted.

Now, that doesn’t mean that BHO tampered with the cert. However, there is that possibility. And, the state of HI has *never* verified that what’s shown on BHO’s sites (one of which has since disappeared off the web) matches what’s on file. They’ve *never* verified where he was born.

There are so many holes in all the many tales told by BHO supporters that it’s difficult to know where to begin. For instance, even BHO isn’t clear on which hospital he was born in: he’s given different locations. Snopes and WP did the same.

For the *facts* about this matter - not speculation, no tinfoil hat theories - see my coverage here:

https://24ahead.com/s/obama-citizenship

Simply by telling the truth about this issue we can discredit dozens of MSM reporters. To do that you have to tell the truth. And, you have to ignore those like Moran who don’t want you to tell the truth.

[3] SECOND COMMENT:
For some reason, my IP address - one used by many people - now returns a 403 when I access this page or RWN’s front page. Did Moran block it, or is that a technical glitch? If the former, he’s cutting off a lot of people. Now I’m using my web host’s IP, hopefully that won’t suffer the same fate if it’s been blocked. Perhaps he could let us know.

In any case, if anyone thinks FactCheck is credible, see the comment I left over at the Atlantic:

http://peekURL.com/zvfislx

Note that that takes you to a specific comment; if it doesn’t, do a find for “Round Two”. Compare what HI said to FactCheck’s take on it, and you won’t trust FactCheck any more.