How Lee Stranahan Beat Brett Kimberlin At His Own Game

stranahanBill Schmalfeldt aka @LiberalGrouch was served with legal documents last Saturday morning. His wife was at the store, so Bill was alone with his Parkinsons disease when the officers knocked on his door. He had to answer in his pajamas and explain to yet another policeman that he was not wobbly from drink, but because of the terminal illness that affects his nervous system. It was the latest humiliation dealt to Bill by Breitbart.com blogger Lee Stranahan, who seems determined to make the disabled 58 year old Navy veteran suffer as much as possible for the crime of blogging about him. It follows a series of false police reports he has made against Schmalfeldt, all with the aim of supporting his bid for a BlogBash award at the CPAC convention in mid-March.

And it is a historic irony in the history of blogging.

When he died one year ago, Lee Stranahan’s boss Andrew Breitbart was in the middle of a long-running “blogwar” against Brett Kimberlin. Upon Breitbart’s sudden extinction, Lee Stranahan completed a funerary conversion to conservatism and vowed to continue his master’s #WAR. In fact, #WAR would be Andrew’s memorial Twitter hashtag, and Stranahan would make a bid for leadership in the conflict when he penned ”Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day.”

The theme was harassment — both imaginary harassment and false-flag harassment – supposedly aimed at right wing bloggers who dared to write about Brett Kimberlin. Now, less than a year later, Stranahan wants to take Bill Schmalfeldt before a court of law for daring to blog about him. See how that works?

Of course, it makes all the difference that Stranahan has rich Republican friends. There are also plenty of BlogBash bloggers invested in this kooky story who want to see Stranahan recognized for his “courage” because it validates their paranoid persecution story. He’s displaying his heroism for them all by harassing Schmalfeldt, and expects to reap rewards.

To be sure, Bill is relentless. He does not shy away from investigating Stranahan’s career in pornography, or his career as wife-pimper, or the strange fact that no birth records exist for any of his home-birthed, “unschooled” children. He even blogged about Lee being disowned by his family. No wonder Stranahan wants to put Schmalfeldt in jail; he’s tried being shameless, tried ignoring his requests for comment on stories about him, and tried calling the police from halfway across the country, but none of it shut Bill up.

So now he’s filed criminal charges in person — because he’s John Galt, and he can do it all by himself. Also, because Maryland law has an odd quirk that lets civilians file criminal charges. Indeed, Stranahan is deliberately repeating the behavior of Brett Kimberlin, Maryland resident, whose organization tried to charge James O’Keefe with wiretapping.

But there are two basic problems with Stranahan’s charges. First, he keeps pretending that Bill has threatened him in some way, but lacks a shred of evidence that won’t be laughed out of a courtroom. The other problem is that Bill is a veteran. Like me, he has been yelled at by professionals who trained him to work under incredible stresses. Sailors and soldiers endure the supervision of people with presidential commissions, parts made by the lowest bidder, things blowing up and going to hell in a handbasket, you name it. And did I mention the man has a degenerative disease that’s eating him alive?

Compared to that, what can Stranahan ever do to Bill? Take away Christmas?

Stranahan meant to climb upwards by beating down Brett Kimberlin. Instead, he’s just beating up Bill, who has no connection to Kimberlin. Incredibly, Stranahan has managed to stoop lower than Kimberlin by becoming Kimberlin — and he has simultaneously elevated Bill from obscurity by treating him like James O’Keefe. If that’s judged an award-winning performance next month at CPAC, then it says everything we need to know about the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of conservatism in the blogosphere.

About Matt Osborne

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  • http://twitter.com/lilsliceofcraze Shits and Giggles

    YEAH! BRAVO! Love this.

  • http://twitter.com/Stranahan Lee Stranahan

    Another dishonest article from you, Matt.

    Let’s start simple — Bill Schmalfeldt was NOT charged with harassment under Maryland law not because he ‘blogged about me’. That’s his right.

    He was charged for repeatedly DIRECTLY CONTACTING me after being asked not to, as part of a pattern of conduct intended to annoy and humiliate me, including repeated sexual references about me and my wife, posting photos of my children and contacting CPS about them, and spending days making false claims about the death of our daughter last year. Anyone can go to LeeStranahan.con to see specifics.

    None of this happened to Brett Kimberlin, who is a convicted and unrepentant bomber who sues people for literally blogging about him.

  • Thedoctor

    Lee Stranahan is the lowest kind of a person. He is the kind of person that will exploit the rape of a child for his own personal agenda, like he has done in Steubenville. He is also a member of Friends of Hamas.

  • JozefAL

    “Anyone can go to LeeStranahan.con to see specifics.”

    Freudian slip, perhaps? (Funny how it’s the only “typo” in the above comment.)

  • http://www.osborneink.com OsborneInk

    “a pattern of conduct intended to annoy and humiliate me” — i.e, he BLOGGED ABOUT YOU. How dare he! Surely when Lee Stranahan sues people for blogging about him, that’s COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

  • http://twitter.com/BreitbartUnmask BreitbartUnmasked

    Great article Matt. Leestranahanwatch.com is a great resource for those who need to see the real Stranahan. Lee’s case is another attempt to get himself some easy press. Last year during his everybody blog about BK google bomb, he begged BK to sue him, matter of fact he wanted to get in on the action in order to get more press on him so he can scam more money from people. Notice how in his latest Bill is harassing me scam he is pimping his political blogging course every few tweets.

    The courts and the state police, MD attorney generals office, and various states attorney’s now looking into these people will probably have some decisions coming up on what type of criminal action to take against this group which is likened to the Westboro Baptist Church organization.

    They (Walker et al) don’t know they are all facing serious felony charges, and more to the point, raising their level to federal charges due to their interstate activities to file false and or malicious prosecutions all at the behest of Walker and maybe others above him.

    Their problem is listening to Walker: who continues to raise the bar of stupidity to a new level not seen since Orly Taitz. Only problem with Walker is that he is using/abusing the court system in a way to criminalize speech he claimed last year was being criminalized against him.

    I think though that Matt somewhat misunderstands the issue on the Walker case. In the assault case, Walker advanced on BK and literally scuffled with BK in order to steal his iPad from him. Walker is clearly seen as the advancing party, while BK is seen as the retreating party in Walker’s assault video (now removed from Google along with other videos over DMCA issues with Bill)

    That assault, whether anyone wants to call it that or not, is clear. Even Judge Johnson, the famed judge who ruled with Walker later on during a new hearing said it was assault. That assault charge by BK was filed for good cause. No one wants to go to court only to be assaulted by an attorney, thus the charge was in and of itself correct.

    The blogging about BK was not a charge, it was concerning other matters. At any rate BK won his cases eventually, while Walker lost his cases and was thrown out in both state and federal courtrooms. I think when all is said and done what Stranahan has done is to elevate himself into the narrative much like Hoggy and his piglet son have done to try and get themselves some additional press so they too can continue to harass and or keep BK in the news and so they can later profit from it.

    I think also that most of them are dead broke, Hoggy owns his property and may end up losing it when Bill has his day in a real court down the road. Walker is a rent month to month type of guy, and Stranahan is the same. None of them have two cents to rub together which makes them judgement proof. Only problem is that they fail to take it to the higher level. Walker seeks to be a star, a TV, radio, media star. And if he is sued over his current conduct and makes money later on doing it, that money will end up going to the people he attacks now when or if it is ruled that what he has done is wrong and costs money to pay the price. Even though he doesn’t have any now, he wants to have some later, so the minute he gets some, that money is going from one hand to the bank of whoever takes him on in court later.

    This is pretty much all been Walker doing this over his obsessions. First it was Muslims, later it was BK, and now Bill. All tied to Walker’s mental problems (I call them mental because Walker seems to get way too invested in the lives of those he hates)

    Walker had a lifetime ban from Facebook over those obsessions during his hate Muslims period, now he has lost his youtube account over continious violations of DMCA. Walker of course claims that he and only he knows copyright claims, and that Google and their room full of attorney’s are completely wrong, which is more of Walker is the only guy who is right while everyone else is wrong mental problem.

    I am sure that Walker will continue to violate every known standard by which others operate until he is isolated with the guys who wear straight jackets. Only then will he realize that he needs medication to control his obsessive behaviors. But by that time it will probably be too late for him.

    In sum, I don’t think that what BK did was wrong or was out of the realm of normalcy. A number of the guys after him have all to a tee been overly obsessed stalker types who claim that BK is the devil and or in control of every left wing org there is. And with his robin being Neal, they go about destroying everything the right believes. That is all horseshit and everyone knows it. The fact that they continue to attack BK just because they can only shows many people the facts that BK was right in trying to clamp down on these frivolous attacks by trying to hold those who launched them accountable. And that is what BK is actually about: trying to hold those who are corrupt accountable.

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