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So, Gore has decided to call me a Digital Brown Shirt because I'm a blogger who looks for the truth, eh? Well, fine then! Here's an icon for all my fellow bloggers.

Display it proudly on your site! Claim the title of Digital Brown Shirt!

For those who don't want to wade through the registration, here's a snippet from Gore.

The Administration works closely with a network of “rapid response” digital Brown Shirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for “undermining support for our troops.” Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist, was one of the first journalists to regularly expose the President’s consistent distortions of the facts. Krugman writes, “Let’s not overlook the role of intimidation. After 9/11, if you were thinking of saying anything negative of the President…you had to expect right-wing pundits and publications to do all they could to ruin your reputation.

Got that? If you pressure the media to tell the unbiased truth, you are now on the same level as a Nazi. Now in the blogosphere, I see how people lose their cool and break Godwin's law, but this man wanted to be president of the United States.

Geeze.

Also, thanks to Sekimori for this tip
FYI, you can use http://bugmenot.com/ to circumvent idiotic registration requirements.

rolled out on Friday, June 25, 2004 11:16 AM
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# link o rama - A Small Victory

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 1:09 PM

Moe found out that a local umm....adult establishment is running a voter registration drive. And it looks like some of those dancers are just crazy for Kerry! So Moe is looking for a few slogans that will help Kerry cash...

# Grandma's Cubanisms - Babalu Blog

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 1:31 PM

Here's a couple more of Grandma's Famous Cubanisms: Cubanism: Pa' su escopeta! Translation: To his rifle! Meaning: Wow! Cubanism: Le patina el coco. Translation: His coconut skates. Meaning: He's crazy. Usage: Pa' su escopeta! A Al Gore o le patina...

# Dean the Brown Shirt - Dean's World

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 1:59 PM

I was rather flattered recently to learn that, apparentely, thinks I am a digital brown shirt. The Sharp As A Marble weblog has a symbol...

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - the leader

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 1:59 PM

brown shirts unite

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Sekimori

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 2:00 PM

FYI, you can use http://bugmenot.com/ to circumvent idiotic registration requirements.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - dave

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 2:02 PM

bwahahaha, that rules. Hope you don't mind I borrowed your idea a little...

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Robb Allen

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 2:16 PM

Dave, I'd be offended if you DIDN'T borrow my idea!

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Andrew | BYTE BACK

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 3:35 AM

Please do put up those digital brownshirts. Perferrably right at the top, easily visible. That will make it much easier to avoid your hate (which seems to be what you're saying)

Design note - you forgot the swastikas on the sleeves.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Robb Allen

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 9:06 AM

Woot! My first Trolls! Welcome fellas.

"A small but highly vocal minority, totally out of touch with the nation as a whole."

And you have interviewed how many people to determine the pulse of the nation? Or is this one of those "facts" you like to pull out of your ass and pretend it's the truth?

And Andrew, where have I expoused any hate? Just because I want the media to be unbiased and truthful means I hate? Did you read my post "My Mind is progressively reeling?" I specifically state that we should, as humans, take care of the needy because it's morally right. How is that hate? What am I doing that warrants being called a hate monger? I'm not the one calling people with opposing views Nazis, that was Gore.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Eric

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 10:38 AM

God, Nazi lover. Sick.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Robb Allen

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 12:50 PM

Eric, child molester. Sick.

I mean, I have no basis of proof to make such a statement, but then again, neither did Eric. It's fitting to see how those who have such closed minds cannot fathom that an idea is different than them so they have to resort to shouts of "Nazi" or "Brownshirts".

Eric here just illustrates that point quite nicely.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - oxymoron

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 1:03 PM

Gore's comments might be somewhat out of proportion but they are based in fact: Jonah Goldberg and others went after Krugman and now Christopher Hitchens and a couple of websites are after Michael Moore.

You guys are just as shrill, ill-informed and self-serving as any of the "liberial" blogs I troll, 'cept the liberials pride themselves on the depth and breath of their information, whether it is all ways accurate or not.

Some symbols are beneath contempt and so render their bearers.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Robb Allen

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 1:14 PM

*snicker* Priding yourself on info regardless of its accuracy is very revealing. I guess I'm just a shallow ignoramus because I only buy into reality.

And I hate to tell you this Ox, but your "contempt" requires that I submit to your view of me to have any effect. Tough. I do not know you, you don't know me, so your so-called contempt is wasted.

Michael Moore created an entire movie and several books to attack Bush. Hitchens takes Moore to task for his dishonesty. Why is one a brownshirt and one not?

Now, as a proper brownshirt I should send in your IP to the Ashcroft Dissent Squishing Squad and remove your comments. Hmm, funny how that's not going to happen.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Andrew | BYTE BACK

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 4:56 PM

Marble - don't bate them back - it's clear you enjoying it too much.

All, Im saying is that brownshirts/ nazis are synbols of hate and if you want to identify with that go ahead. It will be easier to weed you out as a source for useful reading material if you place this logo/symbol at the top of your blog.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Andrew | BYTE BACK

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 5:00 PM

"you enjoy."

ps this is only the second time I've been here, which is why I specifically wouldn't say you hate, I said that "seems" to be what you're celebrating.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Robb Allen

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 5:03 PM

What's clear Andrew? I have't said a thing about hate, I don't post about hate, and the only thing I show a strong hatred for are english peas and terrorists.

If you are getting onto me for using such strong imagery in mockery, maybe you should direct some of your ire to the man who used the term in order to smear anyone who disagreed with him. That's the point I'm making and I'm sorry to see that you're unable to grasp the concept.

If I am so hateful, then why are your comments still here? Why haven't I resorted to calling you nasty names? I hate to inform you that you need to look a little closer at yourself before you start denigrating people as hateful.

# Back in Brown! - LilacRose

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 6:47 PM

I'm baaaack! I just had to come back after an increasingly embittered and deranged Al Gore recently labeled folks like...

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Andrew | BYTE BACK

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 7:07 PM

Marble, you're starting to get on my nerves. (and yes, I know, I invited myself here).

And I'm starting to believe you really are just bating peple who disagree with you.

I said::: <i>... I specifically wouldn't say you hate, I said that "seems" to be what you're celebrating. </i>

Maybe "you" specific are being confused with the "you" general in my comments.

You align yourself with such a strong symbol of hatred, then people are going to assume you agree - in some way - with that hatred, and are celebrating what it represents (we're talking blogs here).

I believe you OK? You're not a hater. You aren't writing a hate-filled blog. I'll take your word on that. But then why align yourself with such a strong symbol of hate?

Note, this is not the same as a balck person embracing the word "nigger" or the gay community embracing the words "queer" or "faggot" to remove their power. Those words to begin with are used by hateful people to incite more hate. A brownshirt nazi is HATE itself and to embrace that is to embrace hate.

As I said, go right ahead. You (general) will save me some time as I roam the blogosphere.

And if you're still not understanding what I'm saying then you will enforce my belief that the blogosphere sucks for any kind of useful debate (although this debate shouldn't have got this far). The challenge is (apparently) yours.

# Get your Brownshirt Apparel! - Crowe

Rolled Out On: 7/7/2004 3:15 PM

Sure you can have an icon on your website and show that proudly, but what about when people see you, yourself? How will they know you're a proud Digital Brownshirt live and in the flesh?

Here's how:
http://www.thecrowe.com/index.php?p=332

Let there never be any doubt as to whether you exercise your First Amerndment right to free speech and use it to hold politicians

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Crowe

Rolled Out On: 7/7/2004 3:16 PM

oh, I suppose i should finish that post...

hold politicians to some level of truth and respectable discourse!

# Kerry Adviser Stole Notes & Documents From 9/11 Commission - The Belfry Blogger

Rolled Out On: 7/20/2004 8:49 AM

Once again the same 9/11 Commission that the Dems hoped to use as a tool to attack the Bush Administration has come back to bite the Demolemmings in the ass. Kerry's chief foreign policy adviser & Clinton NSA Sandy Berger...

# Al Gore's Digital SS - seldom sober

Rolled Out On: 7/29/2004 6:43 AM

&lt;Drinking Post&gt; Al Gore's Digital SS Apparently Gore has his own digital goons. The brilliant Digital Brown Shirt graphic by Sharp as Marbles author has mysteriously disapeared from his sight. I mean, sure, it could be a case of too...

# Slump My Ass, I've Got Your Slump... - Dizzy Girl

Rolled Out On: 7/8/2005 11:45 PM

Hollywood's 19 Week Slump Jul 4, 1:56 PM (ET) By DAVID GERMAIN LOS ANGELES (AP) - "War of the Worlds" conquered the box office as easily as the movie's aliens overpowered Earth, but it did not have enough firepower...

# 
Aaron&#8217;s Rantblog, aka Aaron the Liberal Slayer &raquo; Proud Digital Brownshirt - Pingback/TrackBack

Rolled Out On: 6/27/2004 4:05 AM


Aaron&#8217;s Rantblog, aka Aaron the Liberal Slayer &raquo; Proud Digital Brownshirt

# Netlex Blogs :: Les chemises brunes de George W Bush - Pingback/TrackBack

Rolled Out On: 6/27/2004 5:42 PM

Netlex Blogs :: Les chemises brunes de George W Bush

*The Brownshirts of George W. Bush (translated by Marble)

# No Treason! - Pingback/TrackBack

Rolled Out On: 6/27/2004 7:01 PM

No Treason!

# Shut The F*** Up!!!!!! - The Queen of All Evil

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 2:58 PM

Al Gore called me and my pro-war blogging friends Digital Brown Shirts. Well, I have a digit for you Mr. Gore. And if you shove it up your ass, it'll be brown too! One more thing, Al. Eat Me! Hat...

# NetNewsWire Neatos - Arguing with signposts...

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 3:44 PM

I've been using Ranchero's NetNewsWire for the past few months to add material to the blog. It's a nifty little weblog editor, and allows me to include custom tags and keep track of posts and drafts in a separate window....

# Digital Brown Shirt Logo - Slant Point

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 4:13 PM

This story is rising like wildfire, or faster than a UPS delivery (sorry). Now there's a logo for those who are proud to be Gore-inspired Digital Brownshirts....

# Alliance of Digital Brownshirts! - Natalie

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 4:47 PM

They are real...and they are coming!

<a href="http://www.jessicaswell.com/MT/archives/001469.html">The Alliance of Digital Brownshirts</a>.

# OK. Let me try just the link, then. - Natalie

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 4:48 PM

http://www.jessicaswell.com/MT/archives/001469.html

Link to the Alliance of Digital Brownshirts

# Get your Digital Brownshirt here (sharp as a marble) - Dummocrats.com

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 6:00 PM

Get your Digital Brownshirt here (sharp as a marble)

# Digital Digital Brownshirts - Dummocrats.com

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 6:33 PM

Slant/Point pointed me to sharp as a marble, where you can get your own, actual, Gore-inspired digital brownshirt. It seems that there are other competing images out there as well, for example this one at Jessica's Well. In case you...

# You all are yapping chihuahuas of the right wang - As if!

Rolled Out On: 6/25/2004 11:23 PM

A small but highly vocal minority, totally out of touch with the nation as a whole. Boy I'd bet you'd love to have me arrested for exercising my first amendment rights wouldn't you. You'd probably like to get my employer to fire me for having opinions different than yours and daring to express them in public.

Just wait till GW Bush's homosexual experiences hit the headlines, then we'll see what you've got to say.

# re: Wear your Digital Brown Shirt icon proud! - Brainster

Rolled Out On: 6/26/2004 1:13 AM

"Boy I'd bet you'd love to have me arrested for exercising my first amendment rights wouldn't you."

Not at all. There are some who might find it a crime to exercise it so poorly, but Republicans are not pedants.

"Just wait till GW Bush's homosexual experiences hit the headlines, then we'll see what you've got to say."

Well, that's it, then I'm voting for Kerry. NOT!

# Digital Brownshirt Alliance Anti-Massacre Movement - AlphaPatriot

Rolled Out On: 8/4/2004 12:22 AM

You know, if one person, just one person does it the left may think he's really sick and they'll try to drown him with herbal tea. If two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may thing they're both faggots (albeit a little strange) and they'll try to issue them a marriage license. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people blogging about the loony Left's latest antics. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day joining in, blogging and writing letters to left-wing journalists everywhere. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.And that's what it is, the Digital Brownshirt Alliance Anti-Massacre Movement, and all you got to do to join is write a blog post or a letter to the editor or even just a blog comment the next time the Left does something stupid.With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around in the news, here and blog it when it does. (It won't take long -- it never does.) Here it comes. Paranoid:Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people around you have sinister motives. People with this disorder tend to have excessive trust in their own knowledge and abilities and usually avoid close relationships with others. They search for hidden meanings in everything and read hostile intentions into the actions of others. They are quick to challenge the...

# The Beauty of It All - Eponymous

Rolled Out On: 8/30/2004 12:13 PM

Those poor deluded fools at Protest Warrior got caught with their pants down this weekend as a group of hacktivists with the group hacked and defaced their precious little hate-site. See kiddos? This is what happens when you start bragging...

# Rock the Antichrist... - Dizzy Girl

Rolled Out On: 10/5/2004 4:53 PM

Celebrities want us to listen to them. In fact, they're practically begging for us to. Everyone from Hollywood stars to rock-n-roll legends are speaking out against Bush and endorsing Kerry. Their messages are all the same: Bush is evil and...

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