Comments on: NRO Outs Kos’ Armando II

By: Eric Odom

Eric Odom — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:06:33 +0000

Good post. Will you guys be keeping an eye on http://www.bloggingman.org next year? It's the conservative version of Yearly KOS. Should be interesting.

By: Occidentality

Occidentality — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:32:50 +0000

Relax, Put Your Feet Up, And Watch The Left Melti...

It is not without some glee that I report on the meltdown of the left. Alright, to be fair, it's just confluence of controversies that will eventually dissipate. But having suffered the smug arrogance of leftists who think anyone to the right of Jess....

By: Marisacat » BBB: Gathering links… and whatever else.

Marisacat » BBB: Gathering links… and whatever else. — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:28:58 +0000

[...] NRO Outs Kos' Armando II [...]

By: Truthteller

Truthteller — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:03:14 +0000

Beyond the smoke and mirrors, I firmly believe the Armando outcry is a response to his employer questioning his priorities, and/or time distribution. You can't post 200 comments in a day, write a story and not have that detract from your work, so I think all these moralist arguments are mostly bluster. I am willing to bet that clients were billed for time whilst blogging- in fact I guarantee it, the guy is a blogging addict of amazing proportions.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:03:21 +0000

Perhaps the sensible thing to do is simply assume any attorney commenting on any issue has some undisclosed conflict of interest and filter accordingly.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:01:27 +0000

Alex: Actually, I noted that in passing in my original post: "I/m not sure whether publically noting that one's firm represents a client is even advisable from a legal ethics standpoint."

By: alex

alex — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:46:00 +0000

What hasn't been mentioned yet is that from a purely ethical standpoint, disclosing the names of your clients -past or present- can in and of itself be an ethical problem for an attorney, especially an attorney with high profile clients. There are serious issues of confidentiality at play here that are not being addressed. I'm no fan of Kos and his minions, but I have to side with Armando here. Having said that, as a new attorney, you won't be catching me or any of my new associate colleagues posting anything partisan in nature under our real names...wouldn't be prudent for business or our careers.

By: Speed of Thought...

Speed of Thought... — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:30:51 +0000

Can't We all just Get Along......

This is to funny:

Influential website the Huffington Post tried to ban one of its bloggers after he discovered an anonymous heckler on his blog was actually the Post's technology manager.

In his Huffington Post blog, Peter Rost exposed ....

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:41:16 +0000

I think the essence of the "conflict of interest" is part that what you write about could reap you a benefit (or pay back a favor) and part that we would evaluate the logic and opinion differently if we knew the source was not disinterested.

If you represent a company which would benefit from one view vs another and don't disclose, you are hiding a conflict of interest. The Kelo and anti-trust are lesser examples of this. I would say that people should now read any Armando post and assume there is an undisclosed conflict that is at least as close as the drug company one. He has shown he does not see that as a conflict, so would presumably post again with such a level of conflict. Beyond that, the blogs are free so you get your moneys worth.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:36:04 +0000

Oh, I do so love the smell of panic in the morning....

By: Fersboo

Fersboo — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:15:04 +0000

You demean yourself. Really, you do. Playing in the mud like this.

Hmmm, I wonder if it would be considered 'playing int the mud' if Armando was a right-of-center blogger.

By: Len

Len — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:58:53 +0000

You demean yourself. Really, you do. Playing in the mud like this. I have to say, I expected better.

By: Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

s leave aside our personal feelings about Wal-Mart since it isn’t really relevant to the point I want to make here. But Armando’s profession and its interconnection with his political blogging raise interesting ethical issues. James Joyner at Outside the Beltway published two interesting posts on Armando’s ‘outing’ by the NRO. The only part of his post that I want to relate to is his discussion of issues of disclosure for political bloggers. To his credit, Joyner has thought long