This is the kind of honkin’ big spotlight that needs directed upon the poverty and living conditions in the Reservation System. Want to bet you get bashed by some one for this “travesty”?

You seem to think you are some kind of Rush Limbaugh of the information superhighway.

kade: How does it feel to be a speed bump on the information superhighway?

When this is all over, the teletubbies will be back to circle jerks and ony 19 hits a day.

Andy: When this is all over, Rob will still have a nationally recognized blog and you will still be Mr. Charm! Poor Rob!

I would think the Tribe could have used this as an opportunity to invite him to Turtle Mountain and have a dialog with him.

That would be to civil and besides, one of the reasons they banned him was “for his own protection”

If there are that many hostile people willing to harm him over an editorial, we might as well throw him in jail. “for his own protection” not that he broke the law or anything.

ROFL They banned a blogger… WOW, this is next to unbelievable. So much for freedom of speech, Everyone else gets their fair share of critisism.

You better watch out Rob! Nancy Pelosi & Hillary might ban you from the US…

Gullit, I’ll check them out. Thanks.

How long before Hannity or Rush start calling?

Made the Houston Chronicle too!! Wow, that’s interesting! Isn’t that the place where that jerk Michael Berry is from? Druggie Limbaugh? That his city too?

No cheesy dream weaver trinkets for you!

2H9 has to run to work, but he asked me to follow up on this. Can someone write up a short recap of the situation, include some links and send it to me (or 2H9)? I can then send it to Glenn Beck through an insider email address (where they do seem to actually look at the letters)and maybe get some exposure there.

It’s spreading.

The only good thing coming from Rob’s article is it opens our eyes to the bigotry and hatred that’s out there for tribal peoples.

Andi,

Actually, that’s not exactly true. If you’ll stop hyperventilating for a moment, you might notice the ads posted on the site’s pages. “Pajamas Media” is the prominent one at the upper left, for example.

Now, just like other forms of advertisement, billboards, TV and radio slots, newspapers, and the like, the advertisers pay the site owner, and just like those other media, the amount paid is based on traffic generated. If you had a website of your won, for example, with an average of 4 or 5 visitors a day, the advertisers wouldn’t be very interested in placing ads on your site, whereas if you were getting 20,000 or 30,000 hits per day, they would likely be very interested indeed. But with all the traffic being generated here at Say Anything lately, its almost as if all of your tediously repetitive, self-pitying comments have the effect of putting money in Rob’s bank account.

So you see, there most certainly IS something good to come out of all this. Yes, indeed!

Rob, you are #1 at googlenews. Sorry. I put this at another thread. Now confusion will reign.

Nothing sells in the media like notoriety and the banning has had that affect.

Kade, can you point me in the direction of racist comments on this site? I’ve read some mean, rude and downright nasty comments, but nothing so far I’d consider racist (though I will admit that I don’t read all of the 750+ comments that get posted here in an average day).

The racist comments are everywhere Rob, and you know it. Quit playing the innocent victim. It doesn’t suit you. And, the 750+ comments you currently enjoy? As soon as us Indians are through with you, you’ll be back down to 19 or so a day. Circle jerks will be in fashion again.

Proof: On another thread I praised your humor, this time you are reaching pal!

Do you see anyone else making national news because some tribe banned them? The point being, Robs article might have been a bit harsh, but banning him in this way:
1. Gives him credibility
2. Portrays admittance of guilt in regards to all the things Rob wrote about
3. Further exemplifies the corruption of tribal government.
4. It also points a spotlight on these problems, and gives people a bad impression of the Turtle Mountain Reservation.

They will probably ban all of us soon just because we read this blog. I think what the issue that made it so news worthy was that they banned a person from a reservation because of a point of view, he didn’t break any laws, did sell drugs or cause a violent crime.

I would think the Tribe could have used this as an opportunity to invite him to Turtle Mountain and have a dialog with him.

Those of us who have followed Rob’s blog know that the Turtle Mountain Reservation isn’t the only thing that he writes about. I encourage everyone to look through the last few years worth of articles and postings.

This blog site publicizes items that need attention from the people of ND. Many people, including natives from the reservation know that what Rob wrote about is true. He didn’t sugar coat it. He stated FACTS, Such as Unemployment rates.

Because you didn’t like what he wrote, you call him names and kicked him off the tribe. His story alone did NOT made NATIONAL News. The tribe unjustly banning Rob from the tribe for journalism is what made national news.

Do you see anyone else making national news because some tribe banned them? The point being, Robs article might have been a bit harsh, but banning him in this way:
1. Gives him credibility
2. Portrays admittance of guilt in regards to all the things Rob wrote about
3. Further exemplifies the corruption of tribal government.
4. It also points a spotlight on these problems, and gives people a bad impression of the Turtle Mountain Reservation.

The racist comments are everywhere Rob, and you know it. Quit playing the innocent victim.

So you’ll be happy to link to a couple of them. The permalinks for comments are the time under the comment itself. I wait with bated breath for you to be able to actually substantiate your smears.

And, the 750+ comments you currently enjoy? As soon as us Indians are through with you, you’ll be back down to 19 or so a day.

Actually, 750+ comments/day is about this blog’s norm. Going from when I first started writing here, 3.5 years ago, the average is about 143/day. That numbers a little skewed because for about the first year and a half it was pretty much just me talking to the void. Commenting has been increasing exponentially since then.

Like it or not, Andy, this blog is widely read. It’s syndicated on ND news sites across the state as well as to news outfits like Reuters, USA Today and the Houston Chronicle. I’m also routinely linked from mainstream political news websites from Slate and Salon to The National Review and The Weekly Standard.

Not to toot my own horn, Andy, but the little tea pot tempest you whipped up with your silly banishment has been all but inconsequential to me. It garnered a little more media attention than I expected, but ultimately it’s meaningless.

But I’m sure you’ve deluded yourself otherwise.

No, I’m the Rob Port of the information superhighway. Never claimed to be anything more than that.

But keep sneering. I don’t care. I’ll keep writing, and my readers will keep reading.

I think so too.