Bob McCarty Writes

Last night, I learned my blogging efforts had provoked a virtual attack by the folks at the ultra-liberal Huffington Post.

Eight months ago, I began reporting on the bogus lawsuit Chevron Corporation has been fighting in Ecuador for more than 16 years.  To date, I’ve published more than a dozen posts about the case — a no-holds-barred attempt by the plaintiff Amazon Defense Coalition to fleece $27 billion from the San Ramon, Calif.-based oil giant.  Apparently, I’ve gotten under their thin skin.

Under the Thursday-evening headline, Chevron’s Blogger Propagandists: Accuse First, Ask (No) Questions Later, I was one of four pro-Chevron bloggers excoriated in a byline-free piece posted — but not written — by Paul Paz y Miño that first appeared on the barely-visible ChevronInEcuador blog, a propaganda site run by the ADC’s hired-cap gun PR flak Karen Hinton.

Though I posted a comment in response to the piece at approximately 11 p.m. Central Wednesday, it appears HuffPo moderators opted to run interference for the ADC.  As of 8:50 a.m. Central today, my comment — and no others, for that matter — was still awaiting approval.

Thankfully, I had enabled a capability that automatically posted my comment to my Facebook wall.  That comment appears below with one modification.

The modification?  I was able to remove one misplaced word from my comment before it appeared on my FB wall.  So, if HuffPo ever approves my comment, you’ll notice it has one word more than the comment shown above.

*As of this posting, the HuffPo piece had zero approved comments.

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SEE ALSO: Alex Thorne’s response to being “trashed” by HuffPo.

UPDATE 12/18/09 at 11:10: A reader just informed me that the name of the author of this piece now shows up at the bottom of the post where it was originally published.