‘Legal Schnauzer’ Roger Shuler Arrested, Beaten
(This story appeared in its entirety on Digital Journal. It remains there in part. The last half was stripped by the editor who apparently doesn’t understand the importance of “cause and effect” in this story. But that’s what editors do.)
Columbiana
– Alabama attorney Roger Shuler, proprietor and chief writer for the
Legal Schnauzer blog, is currently cooling his heels in a Shelby County,
Alabama, jail cell after being arrested Thursday night.
He is also nursing a swollen, black left eye that he probably got
“bumping into a door knob” while “resisting arrest.” He is charged with
two counts of contempt of court and one count of resisting arrest. Mr.
Shuler’s law blog has lately focused on the alleged extra-marital
affairs of Alabama Republican Party bigwig Rob Riley, son of former
two-term Governor Bob Riley.
As Shuler wrote on October 21:
Alabama Republican Rob Riley has filed a proposed court order that seeks the arrest of my wife and me for reporting here at Legal Schnauzer on Riley’s extramarital affair with lobbyist Liberty Duke. Riley, who reportedly plans to seek the U.S. House seat being vacated by Spencer Bachus, wants two citizens arrested for–get this–practicing journalism.
Shuler has alleged, among other things, that the younger Riley was engaged in an extramarital affair with a (then) married lobbyist, also the alleged extra-marital affair and subsequent divorce of an Alabama Republican operative,
who also happens to be the very close friend (she calls him her
“mentor” and “best bud”) with an Alabama Circuit Court judge and former
Alabama Attorney General that Shuler outed on his Legal Schnauzer blog
as being involved as a model in a gay porno magazine in his youth. (NSFW)
The timing of the arrest is quite interesting, given that Shuler has also written about the alleged “romance” between Karl Rove (who
he blames for the alleged railroading of former Alabama Governor Don
Siegelman, who is also in jail) and GOP new media operative Ali A. Akbar
in June 2012.
In a radio interview with this reporter last night, Akbar raised
the question of my knowledge of his alleged affair with Rove, which he
denied.
Shortly after the radio program concluded, Robert Stacy McCain,
Akbar’s employee at Viral Read and “The Other McCain” blog wrote a story
in which he raised the Shuler/Akbar/Rove connection.
Now, I’d often heard this weird accusation mentioned in jest, but as it was obviously untrue, never bothered to see where it came from. And where it started was with an Alabama lawyer named Dana Jill Simpson, who made the claim in a letter she wrote on June 26, 2012. In that letter, Simpson said she got her information when she was “contacted by a political operative on the left.Hmmm.
So “a political operative on the left” dreamed up this Akbar-Rove smear, sent it to a lawyer in Alabama, who then repeated it in a letter to Bob Bauer, the top lawyer for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign (!), and from there it metastasized into a delusional rant on a blog called “Legal Schnauzer,” which got multiple comments by Schmalfeldt (as “Liberal Grouch”) and the ubiquitous Matt Osborne:Matt Osborne said…
While I’m not about to go and say this report of a gay tryst is true, what IS definitely true is that Rove has been deeply connected to the National Bloggers Club since it started. Brett Kimberlin, the man they first tried to frame for their fake SWAT calls, embarrassed the hell out of Rove with one of his “merry prankster” performances back in 2004.
I would not be surprised to find out that Rove has been using them for all manner of Nixonian ratfuckery. Anyone who’s been reading my blog lately knows I have been tangling with them over a hoax they tried to pull on me and other people in the #stoprush movement. There is no upper limit to their criminality, IMO, and Rove’s involvement shows that. June 27, 2012 at 5:34 PM
This is the sort of thing that one reads about happening in the third-world
In America, journalists do not get arrested for writing stories…
Unless they’re writing stories about well-connected political operatives
in a corrupt Republican party that runs a corrupt state government in
the third-world state of Alabama, so it seems.
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