I live rent free in the heads of the bloggers and commenters at the OJ blog and, generally speaking, I tend to ignore them as I’m busy dealing with FBI interrogations or cancer treatments if you believe stuff they fantasize about.
Tuesday, I posted a press release from Senator Tom Umberg’s office which was compelling regarding alleged collusion with the Anaheim Cabal and the Angels on the discarded stadium deal. I regular post press releases from electeds and candidates and key non-profits because the general public doesn’t typically see these and I can sneak in a quick post in between client meetings. Remember, this blog isn’t what pays the bills and it is a labor of love. And then again, I don’t have 5 DUIs, a credible charge of sexual assault, or were removed from the local party twice or the state party twice either.
Greg Diamond has suggested that by posting this release — which ran on the Associated Press word for word — that I have committed a “fair use violation.” This is one of two recent examples of Mr. Diamond not understanding how things work. In this case, he doesn’t get how a press release works.
The Senator’s press office sent me the press release Monday morning at 11:15 am; press contacts on the press office’s list were masked so its impossible how to tell who else received it. I suspect Umberg’s press office also issued this on a newswire — there are several — which would account for the identical copy on the Associated Press. There were likely identical press release pick ups on other news sites as well depending on the wire service used — hundreds typically all word for word. Wire service press releases are ideal for search engine optimization — editors and reporters who cover specific beats will get news, like I did, via their email in basket. The release I posted wasn’t copied from the Associated Press. There is no “fair use violation” and Diamond’s fantasy that an AP lawyer is going to lecture me or sue me means the rent in his head is paid through September. I can produce said email, but just because the AP ran the same news doesn’t mean it was the source for my story.
The question he ought to be asking is why isn’t the OJ blog on Umberg’s list of media targets. I can count five DUI reasons and four Party purges for reasons why. And goody, I’m sure the Umberg campaign is thrilled to have Diamond’s endorsement because there’s nothing better than having the backing of someone who can vote for him or hasn’t written a check.
I think most readers know I run a PR firm that works with cybersecurity clients. My shop posted an announcement about two industry awards we’ve captured this year. Now I can’t remember the OJ post it was, but Diamond left a comment suggesting that just before the “Anaheim Cabal” story broke, he feared a DDOS attack on the OJ blog because there were a number of downloads of posts concerning Anaheim. I have to admit laughing for a full five minutes about this because he clearly doesn’t know what a DDOS attack is.
A DDoS attack (or “Distributed Denial-of-Service attack) is a cybercrime where a hacker or hackers flood a server with internet traffic to prevent users from accessing connected online services and sites. It would take tens of thousands of file accesses to bring a blog site down in this manner. And for what its worth, this site had a number of downloads for stories on Anaheim as well as posts about Nelson’s DUIs and Diamond’s removal from the DPOC and as a State Party delegate. The traffic was nowhere near what it would need to be to shut down a site.
For the candidates back by this blog, how important is it to have their support? This duo is never going to write you a check. They are consider toxic. By all means, ask Vern Nelson for his side of the Lorri Galloway sexual assault story. Then ask him about the voice mail apology he coached his wife through after an Easter weekend 2021 Twitter rant he made he take responsibility for in which there were two distinctive “voices” of Tweets under the OJ Blog Twitter handle now called @rimlikker (and please ask what that means). And do read his wife’s comments on his social media when she actually takes control of his accounts — fun stuff.
Do you really want support from people like this?
https://theliberaloc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/umberg-pr.pdf
Here’s the full press release Greg claims I only only copied the first two paragraphs. Please compare. An on DDOS, he’s an idiot. I have worked in cybersecurity for 30 years. The
expanded traffic he saw is no where close to a DDOD attack. He’s an idiot.
Vern to women he hits on: do you know what this is?
Smart women: it looks like a penis only smaller
Hits or Hits On???
Oh that’s right it was a can of soup that gave Donna black eye!
Dellusional Diamond is suggesting the FBI is monitoring the OJB.
If these losers are the best the Fed’s can do to build a case against Harry Sidhu, then the former Mayor must be dancing the streets.
Maybe the Feds could hire Zenger to paint a picture.
well, if the FBI is searching for blog stories, I’m certain they’ll mask their IP addresses. I have to laugh that Greg claims he defined what a DDOS is before me when I posted in the morning and his comment arrived sometime in the afternoon. He did a nice job Goggling a definition for DDOS but if OJ was truly under attack from a DDOS, the site would have shut down in a manner of minutes or hours. No one is going to launch a denial of service attack that lasts for three days. And he claims there was an attack on this site. Nope. I’m guessing that stroke has damaged his sense of time. I’ll say this, he’s a source source of unintentional comedy. I hope he calls the AP to complain a used a press release sent to me by Umberg’s senate office.
So let me make sure I have got this straight….Greg Diamond, being the Crack lawyer he pretends to be somehow does not understand that there is this pesky thing called the United States constitution.
How in f@cks sake does Greg Diamond not know that the FBI needs a search warrant to obtain IP addresses from commenter?
Maybe they are REALLY LOOKING for 4th district resident’s picture files. I think that kind of “traffic” would put you in a seventeen year stretch in Lompoc.
Or Maybe Donna’s Twitter feed…..or there is the chance (likely) that Greg’s toe-nail fungus is considered the 2022 version of yellow cake uranium.
To paraphrase Dan Akroyd:
“If the FBI is using the Orangejuiceblog.com as an investigative source, then maybe Trump is getting a bad rap!”
Please do not use the real name of someone who is dead.
I think the folks running OJB suffer from an inferiority complex.
Why else would they (1) censor posts and (2) then repackage the posts they censor as their own material?
Crazy Diamond is a myopic, Zionist, xenophobe.