Open Letter to Duncan Black

Dear Atrios:

I appreciate the fondness you have for snappy labels for prominent people whom you regularly blog, such as "The Last Honest Man" for Joe Lieberman or "The Patron Saint of Liars" for John McCain.

However, I have a special request to you in your future blogging of John McCain's presidential campaign: that every time you refer to him, you mention him specifically by name; and that every time you mention the name John McCain, you link that name to the Wikipedia article on the Keating Five (the URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five). I further request that you encourage other bloggers to do the same thing.

The purpose of this is of course a Google bomb: to give the Keating Five article lots of Google juice so that, in turn, whoever googles John McCain will be reminded of his key role in the biggest swindle of the twentieth century. If John McCain has such a prominent history of enabling swindlers, why would we expect any different from him today, let alone should he ever make it to the White House?

By all means, feel free to keep calling John McCain the Patron Saint of Liars; but please, when you do, name him and link his name to the Keating Five article.

Sincerely &etc.