I do think Carlson overreacted, though. You can have a legitimate basis for a reaction & it still be more than is prudently called for.

A very short time ago we were being treated to a LAN screams of horror from the left, about how Bush was going to be using video store records, as well as other purchases, against anyone who dissented, which of course one could assume to include the left.

Funny, though, that the privacy of Tucker Carlson is information isn't being taken with the same degree of seriousness by those defending this blogger.

Are we now going to argue that it's less damaging when someone not involved with the government does it?

On the other hand, can you imagine the stink that would occur if somebody had done this with, say, Anderson Cooper? I wonder, for example, if the left of the 'sphere would be quite so defensive. I rather tend to doubt it.

Perhaps the whole thing simply centers around somebody trying to get in a cheap shot against somebody speaking to the right of center, huh?

Now if only it were from this great blog I used to read from someone who worked in a *porn* video store.

Yup. That has the double advantage of forcing you to think a couple seconds about what you're writing, too.

“As if (name) is ever going to read my blog”.

First rule of blogging: always assume that anyone you write about will see your post, and will know you wrote it.

Tucker did what anyone would have done in this situation.

When you have a small readership (under 50 hits a day) that consists mostly of bloggers you link and personal friends and family, you tend to forget that your posts are open to anyone with access to the internet.
In my case, I posted about how people are lazy and would rather complain about radio stations than admit that the public owns the airwaves and is more responsible for content than the owner of the station. - My former boss took that as a threat and fired me.
I would never have broadcast that opinion on the radio, but on my personal blog with less than 30 daily readers (99% of them being people I know)I am more open with my opinions.
It's the sign of a dull mind.
"As if (name) is ever going to read my blog".

It's not like the post came up on the first page of a Tucker Carlson google search.
Tucker probably had over 5,000 google hits to search through before he got to this guy and his nothing blog.
Not that I'm defending the actions of said blogger. I'm just saying that he was betting the odds that anyone outside of his established readership would ever read the post.
Truth is, this guy could have sat in a bar and spoke the same thing that he typed with no problems at all.
Not all bloggers are journalists. When your readership is under 25 people a day, you don't feel like you have "great power" like Spiderman.
Having access to Tucker Carlson's home address isn't great power either.
Jon Stewart getting Tucker to toss the bow tie...
That's Power!

And I'm sure you're right on the percentages; indeed, it's probably more than 90%. That's the reason I get irritated when we're all lumped in together as "bloggers" by the press and treated as if we're all the same animal.