Putting ‘Iowa Voice’ to bed…
Ever since Karaoke Sinatra (aka Brian) of Iowa Voice (aka Voice-Mart) posted an opening salvo calling posters on Iowa Underground ‘whackjobs’, we’ve had occasion to poke fun at this sad-sack conservative – if only because he’s such a terrifically easy target.
Take, for example, the following excerpt from one of his recent posts:
As anyone could expect, I’m a person who values my privacy and my personal info. I’ve actually had this issue come up before earlier this year, with a liberal blog that posted my personal info (along with other stuff they weren’t allowed to publish) and I had to threaten legal action and contact their host to get it all removed.To say I’m against such postings is an understatement. I’ve said it before, we live in a crazy world these days, and with the political atmosphere as divided as it is these days, it’s quite a risk to have that stuff out there for anyone to read. Who knows WHAT anyone is capable of these days?
As those who pay attention to what’s going on in Washington already know, cons frequently exhibit a tendency towards being rather thick in the head – and Karaoke Sinatra is certainly no exception. For example, would anyone that really values their privacy and personal information openly advertise their full name, address and side career on the internet in the first place? When one uses their own first and last name for a domain name and repeatedly links to it on their blog, precisely what claim to privacy are they making? Hi, my name is John Dough, I live at 123 Apple Tree Lane and graduated from Wappelo County Highschool in 1985 and oh by the way here’s my phone number, too. Now forget I told you that or I’ll send my make believe lawyers after you!
At a certain point, musn’t one accept atleast some responsibility for one’s own actions? Karaoke has made each bit of information publically available himself, that he’s now complaining others have somehow unearthed with the help of a secret cabal of private investigators and internet forensic specialists – when all it took was following a hyperlink. It’s this same hypocrisy and tone deafness that allows him to insist he’s above invective in one breath, and in another throw out ‘whackjobs, moonbats, nutcases’ to those he happens to disagree with. It’s this same hypocrisy that allows him to preach the propaganda of conservative, rugged individualism in one post, and in the next openly beg for money to pay household bills. It’s very much the mentality of someone that dines on a daily dosage of Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin – the mendacity, hubris and underlying tone of victimhood simply knows no bounds.
Having said that, there’s a few corrections in order. A poster on Iowa Underground’s forums happened upon Karaoke’s highschool alma-matter personal contact info. – information openly provided by Mr. Sinatra in the first place – and re-posted it on the forum. Since the information contained an address and home phone number and wasn’t germane to the thread, it was removed. This had absolutely nothing to do with lawyers or host providers. It had to do with the standards that have been in place on Iowa Underground since day one. I also removed a song of his I had uploaded to Iowa Underground’s server space after he reminded me it was copyrighted. Hey, if someone can yell COPYRIGHT VIOLATION! while mimicking the songs someone else created in the first place, more power to them. Of course these are all distinctions Karaoke Sinatra isn’t interested in you knowing about. Much better to smear several people at once and allude to the possibility of his family coming into harm’s way by those whackjob, moonbats that haunt Iowa Underground.
You’re a sad man, Karaoke. Using Karl Rove as your spiritual guide will probably not prove to be one of your more fruitful decisions in life. Here’s hoping you get an actual job again one day so you can find better ways of spending your time other than stewing in your own paranoia.
- pdx
April 19th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Voice Mart has this whackjob banned. I hope his job hunt is going well. If he actually has a job he might not be able to post as much.
April 19th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
From what I understand, both you and Sousy have been banned from his site – which is bizarre. Of my many years on the interweb, I’ve seldom stumbled across two posters with more even-tempered, non troll-like dispositions. It’s just part of voice-mart’s modus operandi. He’s a sad little man who has been programmed to believe the world is out to get him.
April 19th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
send me those pics of Karaoke in full-on clown regalia. I’ll call his bluff on all that “lawyer” rubbish. Brian hasn’t a pot to piss in. The only lawyer he could afford is Lionel Hutz.
April 19th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
We never took them down voluntarily, Mike. What karaoke did was contact the image hosting services they were stored on and convinced them to take them down. You can find one rendition here – voice-mart is a big Nussel fan, you know.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:56 pm
I made a single post on iowavoice.com yesterday, showing that the analysis was a huge jump to conclusion.
And I got banned for it.
Pretty lame, eh? Kinda like the Bush “town meetings” where everyone is personally vetted and the questions are pre-approved. Dog n pony show.
Of course, I’m just assuming that my IP address is banned, and that the entire website isn’t down.
May 4th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Good analogy, Nicolai. He deletes and bans everyone who doesn’t tow the wal-mart/gop line.