DR, one of my trusty readers has pointed me to this interesting confession by Aussie Dave that he’s a bit peeved at bloggers who are distorting his purposes in creating the JIB Awards. Jesus’ General of course comes in for his share of opprobrium because he has the effrontery to suggest that his readers vote for the few progressive blogs among the nominees:
there are bloggers who have seen it necessary to either disparage other competing blogs, or send their readers to skew the results by voting for selected blogs that conform to their ideology.
Which is of course laughable because the JIB Awards as a whole are largely a competition that conforms to Aussie Dave’s ideology. The only blogs that don’t are the ones that Jesus’ General is promoting.
I come in for my share too though Dave won’t name me (I guess I’m the blog “that dare not speak its name”):
…There have also been those who have tried to taint the entire awards with their baseless accusation and petty jealousies, but I have already devoted wasted enough time on them.
Dave and I have gone round and round on my charge that the JIB Awards are really promoting his own particular political, propaganda agenda. He’s given me further ammunition for this with the following statement:
The JIB awards were conceived…to bring attention to…Jewish, Israeli, and pro-Israel blogs,…which I consider absolutely necessary in light of the mainstream media bias against Israel (and, to some extent, Jews).
So there you have it, Aussie Dave admits in print that one of his main goals is to promote “pro-Israel blogs” and to combat the media’s alleged bias against Israel and Jews. It’s all the fault of those no-goodniks at anti-Israel publications like the New York Times and CNN, don’t you know. As for Di anti-Semitin, there’s one under every rug. They’re just waiting to jump out and bite us.
This too is an interesting admission from Dave about the “meaning” of winning a JIB award:
The results themselves are irrelevant. They may not necessarily be indicative of the quality or worth of the blog. They may very well only be indicative of the blogger’s readership, or their ability to garner support.
Saying the results are “irrelevant” would be like Bert Parks saying it didn’t matter who won the Miss America contest or like Simon Cowell saying it was “irrelevant” who won American Idol. Kind of a strange statement in my opinion. But it kinda makes me wonder whether the JIB Awards themselves are “irrelevant.”
Dave’s finally cottoned on to the fact that Little Green Footballs is of course going to win whatever category it’s in because it has a reservoir of 100,000 daily readers to call upon to support its nomination. Which of course means that mediocrity with a mass readership wins at the JIB Awards every time.
I know I’m gonna rile poor Dave even further by violating his directive but I urge my readers to vote for the few blogs (by following the link) I know and respect in the JIB Awards:
Jewschool and here and here
Orthodox Anarchist and here and here
Are you for real? I have told you countless times the purpose of the awards. It is in the rules. There is nothing to hide, or be ashamed of.
You are boring the socks of everyone with these posts, and the fact that you left that comment at my site, replete with a hyperlink to here, reinforces my view that you are all about getting attention. Well guess what? I am bored with this game, and your obsession with the JIBs.
BTW, feel free to retract your allegation that I was somehow “bought” by LGF, or provide evidence so as to salvage the little credibility you may have left.
I just like getting you all riled up & it’s so easy to do.
Talk about repeating yourself endlessly. This is your 11th JIBA-related comment here & you haven’t raised a new idea since about comment #2.
I’m glad you admit that JIBA has a political agenda. You’ve stated before that it has no agenda and that there is no slant or bias in its purpose. Unless, that is, you view holding a pro-Israel blog competition as having no bias. That would be rich, but I wouldn’t put it past you to believe that contradiction.
“Getting attention?” You’re the one who’s “getting attention.” Tell me how many different links to your blog are there at the J. Post site? Not to mention that the JIBA logo, displayed at every JIBA nominee site, lists your blog’s URL. And you begrudge me my David-like attempts to take on the Goliath of “Pro-Israel” blogging. Let me make clear that I don’t begrudge you getting attention for your blog through JIBA. You started it, you deserve something from it. But to whine about others being so trashy as to be trying to get attention for their blog is preposterous.
LGF didn’t have to “buy” you. You were already bought–that is, bought into the whole pro-Israel political network. All your ‘friends’ are there from Pajamas and elsewhere in the right-wing blogosphere: Solomonia, Atlas Shrugged, Cox & Forkum, Little Green Footballs, Power Line, Protein Wisdom, Roger L. Simon. Must be just like old home week for you guys in the Land of True Believers.
He’s a tetchy one that Aussie Dave….
How can a man state there is no agenda or bias and then claim that winning doesn’t matter……..it’s the message (Israel can do no wrong advocacy) the contest puts out is the most important. If that isn’t an agenda I don’t know what is.