BNN, as it styles itself, functions as a kind of clearinghouse for the editors of dozens of small rightwing blogs, fellows who toil in utter obscurity and are seemingly read by nobody. The editors of these lonesome outposts of the reactionary pathology, believing that the attention they so desperately crave is just a Bunny Click away, take what they feel is their finest work of the day and cross-post it to this larger site, a place where the opportunity to rack up double digit hit totals is not only available, but can sometimes actually be achieved. And compared to what they usually get on their own sites, this is exponential readership growth.
But occasionally, the computer that does whatever it does over at Google News, plucks up a piece of work from one of these pieces of work, and displays it on its front page as legitimate news. In which case their hit total increases markedly. And this would appear to be their dream, as big a success as they could ever hope to achieve.
However, as you will see if you decide to take a look, most articles receive very few hits, and nobody hardly ever leaves a comment. Like most bloggish sites of the reactionary ilk, this place is virtual cricket-land. Seemingly the appeal of the ranting rightwing crackpot has vanished over the last few years, leaving nothing but this BNN beach littered with the washed up carcasses of some of the most bizarre Internet critters ever spawned.
Anyway, I decided it was my job to leave some informed commentary on the site (you know, just to help them out), and over morning coffee would usually be able to leave several choice comments to what I felt were the most insane and poorly reasoned of the day's offerings. And it was fun. Like most reactionary types, these fellows just do not deal with criticism very well, and the responses were some highly amusing low comedy. But then they stopped replying, almost in unison, and I knew something was up.
Today I was banned, my ISP address noted, and the ability to malign the works of these fellows taken away. I guess they just can't take what they so dearly, and pathologically in most of their cases, need to dish out. Ironically, with my disappearance, most of the commentary to their articles will disappear as well. Me, perhaps the only person on the planet who cared enough to share his thoughts about their work.
If you should wish to play around a couple of these amusing dittomonkeys, BNN (a.k.a. "The Bunny") can be found at:
http://www.legendgames.net/blognews.asp
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