The fact that Think Progress is a Center for American Progress front for anti-American socialist propaganda is pretty much well known by everyone except the 9/11 truthers and pedophile activists who infest the comments there. Comments which, I might add,  are closed to registration and mysteriously filled with dozens of people who “speak in the same voice” as we used to say in writing class. This helps Think Progress avoid some painful public debunkings of the multiple lies they publish by getting around that pesky fact checking aspect of blogging that tends to happen when you allow anyone to comment and argue against your points.

Despite this the media insists on using Think Progress as a source especially when it comes to popular targets of leftist derangement like Bill O’Reilly. Apparently O’Reilly drew yet more ire from Think Progress smear artists Christy Harvey and Judd Legum by pointing out an obvious truth, that the Internet gives scum of various stripes support and encouragement by linking them up with like minded cretin. Observe the innocuous and boilerplate statement:

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Now here’s professional Harvey toady Ali Frick’s case of the vapors:

Thousands of protesters have gathered in London ahead of the G20 summit, many of them angry over a multi-million-dollar pension paid out to a failed executive at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Host Jon Scott asked Bill O’Reilly what he thought of “these nuts,” and O’Reilly said “the Internet’s driving this kind of stuff” — including protesters and, apparently, child molesters

Uh, no. What O’Reilly said was that anarchists recruit and organize using the Internet just like child molesters do. Anarchists use IndyMedia to organize just as pedophiles use sites like Boychat, or Annabelleigh.org. Many people like Perverted Justice, the (in my opinion awesome) crew at Absolute Zero United and your humble blogger have pointed out time and again the organized pedophile online movement’s disturbing growth and the recruitment of dangerously unstable child molesters like Alia Loren Jacobsen to their cause. Though the crimes may not be as vile, anarchist violence organized on the net is similar in its promotion of criminality wherein innocent people are victimized.

O’Reilly wasn’t smearing anyone, but Frick’s sock puppets sure were. The first comment left on the post was just a link to this Media Matters affiliated hate site called Republican Sex Offenders which, rumor has it, is run by an angry sex offender. The site is a list of mostly small fry state and local Republicans who have been accused or convicted of various sexual offenses. It even lists serial killer Ted Bundy, which I guess is some sort of counter argument to the fact that John Wayne Gacy was a Democrat activist who actually attacked a teen worker he met through his work with the Democrats named Tony Antonucci. Of course that really doesn’t reflect on all Democrats, but I guess the 20 or so people out of a party that comprises millions of Americans proves we Republicans are all evil.

If you’re insane. Or insanely partisan.

If Think Progress was an honest broker of information they’d have open registration so that someone could argue that point, but they aren’t honest. They are a slander machine designed to whip up hatred in the lowest common denominator. Anarchists are criminals when they destroy millions of dollars worth of property, injure hundreds of people and use the fear their violence causes to intimidate political opponents into silence. In that respect they are no different from child rapists, who trade in fear and intimidation and organize on the web. O’Reilly isn’t wrong to point that out, but the pedophile enablers of Think Progress are wrong to minimize the ongoing efforts by child rape advocates to mainstream “intergenerational love” using the web, just as they’re wrong to minimize the violence at the G20 protests.