Mark Levin is the radio host of the st00pid!

Haw haw haw, you got me there, conservos - not!

Did the owner of the Mark Levin fan site really think I didn't expect them to change the photo of their hero that I linked to? (This is a separate matter from the hacks I discovered earlier.)

Man, they really stepped in it, didn't they? They don't even realize how much they hurt their cause when they did that.

You know, I've run websites for 12 years, and I know that people linking to pictures on it just goes with the territory - unless they're actively trying to waste bandwidth. If they link to it only once, so they can illustrate a point, it's hardly cause for concern. It's obviously not a copyright issue, because there is something called fair use, you know.

And people have linked to my pictures - almost always without my permission. I don't recall ever raising a stink about it.

But I guess the Levin fan site thinks the rules that apply to everyone else shouldn't apply to them.

Their site is truly a monstrosity. Looking at the blog portion, about half of it is devoted to the type of hate speech and propaganda that's typical of the right-wing noise machine. The other half is devoted to praising Mark Levin for spewing the type of hate speech and propaganda that's typical of the right-wing noise machine.

One of Levin's favorite sayings is, "Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid." But Levin is the radio host of the stupid. If the owner of his fan site was so smart, they wouldn't have thought I wouldn't have dished out some industrial-strength humiliation for trying to pull one over on me.

How about if we just refer to Mark Levin as Speak-&-Spell-face? He looks like a Speak & Spell! Just because he looks like one of the smartest toys of my youth doesn't mean his show isn't every bit as stupid as his fan site.

Here's Levin (with right-wing agitator Ann Coulter, in a photo found on Levin's MySpace page):



Here's a Speak & Spell:



In this and other photos, Levin looks like a Speak & Spell, for his goofy grin appears frozen, and his face appears to be breaking out in a pattern reminiscent of the buttons on the classic Texas Instruments toy.

Maybe Speak-&-Spell-face's followers are just mad because their hero's face resembles a '70s electronic toy, and mine doesn't.