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You’re a 16-year-old boy with devilish good looks and a penchant for goofing off. Your YouTube handle is JSKCranks, and you like to film yourself making prank calls. In one call you’re a mean Russian messing with the pizza guy. ("Do you have my money for the marijuana and cocaine I sold you? Cause I’ll cut you, bitch!") Perhaps you get bored with prank calls. So you decide to take your antics on the road, maybe score some cash in the process. You go on the "adult services" section of Craigslist, as you’ll later tell the police, and connect with “Smotherboy.” He’s a 47-year-old ABC radio journalist who’s willing to pay you $60 to come over and smother him — an ambiguous sexual fetish that involves asphyxiation and ... and then what?

At the man’s Carroll Gardens apartment, you’ll later claim, he gives you beer and a white substance that looks like coke.



Then, while bound in duct tape, you later say, Smotherboy pulls a knife. You grab it away and stab him some 50 times. Afterward, you search for money in Smotherboy’s pants, rifle through his lunchbox collection, and then wash yourself in the tub before putting on Smotherboy’s clothes and leaving. You take the G train back to Queens. But the conductor stops the subway when he sees your finger bleeding badly. You go to the hospital, are later arrested, charged with murder in the second degree, and now face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.



You didn’t know New York law permits 16-year-olds to be tried as adults. But you think your chances of getting off are decent. Given the choice between feeling outraged over a brutal killing or disgusted by deviance, jurors might see the case in your lawyer’s terms: a child conscripted by a sexual predator to carry out ungodly acts.



And then the prosecutor walks in.



You were expecting someone mean or severe-looking. But she seems pretty nice: tall, blonde, athletic and lithe in that Icelandic way. The brown eyes, you notice, are slightly misty, and the head is cocked a little to one side as if empathy is hardwired into her brain. In the prosecutor’s demeanor there is something eminently trustworthy. She’s seven months pregnant and just beginning to show.

You look at your own lawyer, dressed in a loud pinstripe suit. What’s he thinking? Probably that in 36 homicide trials, this particular blonde has never had an acquittal.

Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is the prosecutor in the high-profile murder trial of John Katehis, charged with killing George Weber, a freelance journalist for ABC News Radio. The trial began last week, with pretrial hearings and jury selection; opening statements are today.

"Only three kinds of prosecutors have her record," says Ken Taub, who heads the homicide unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office where Nicolazzi works as a homicide bureau chief. "People who exaggerate their records, people who pick and choose their cases, and people like Anna-Sigga, who prepare everything and anticipate everything. Her style is totally professional, no phony flash or showmanship."



In one respect, she’s the embodiment of an archetype used in crime dramas — the attractive trial lawyer who lives and breathes homicides. Her personal history includes an older cousin who was raped and murdered, though she says that didn’t influence her career choice.

"Anna-Sigga has no ego," says Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney who taught Nicolazzi at Brooklyn Law School. "She comes across as a person you can believe in. And of course her looks don’t hurt, either." Could she run for office? "Absolutely, as long as she doesn’t run against me. I don’t want to deal with her in a race."



I first encountered Nicolazzi’s name in 2006 when I was a litigation associate reading about the trial of Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson, the men convicted in the bafflingly horrific torture, murder, and posthumous rape of Romona Moore, a 21-year-old student at Hunter College. The case brought new meaning to courtroom theatrics when, on the first day of trial, Hendrix and Pearson pulled out improvised knives, stabbed one of their own lawyers in the face, and then tried to snatch a court officer’s gun before their uprising was put down. When the trial resumed, the Times reported that Nicolazzi, having declined the judge’s offer to replace her, "sat alone at the prosecution table taking notes with an exaggerated overhand grip."



"After that they called me ‘lobster-claw’ around the office," says Nicolazzi, 40, who grew up on Long Island and has lived in Brooklyn since law school. "That episode stuck with me," she continued. "Now I’m more concerned with where the court officers are and where the defendants are, especially certain defendants."

Katehis, now 18, reportedly had a MySpace page advertising his interests in anarchy, sadomasochism, drinking, roof-hopping, hanging off trains, and "extreme" violence. In a pretrial hearing, Nicolazzi requested that Katehis remove his sneakers because they had satanic images drawn on them.

In court last Wednesday, the defense suffered an early setback when a Brooklyn judge ruled that a post-arrest, videotaped statement by Katehis — in which he tells authorities about meeting Weber on Craigslist, drinking beer and snorting cocaine that Weber had given him, and then stabbing him — could be presented to the jury. And according to sources familiar with the case, at least two aspects of Katehis’s story — that Weber posted the Craigslist ad; and that Weber gave Katehis cocaine, which Katehis claims caused him to react so violently — will be disputed at trial.

So if Katehis, rather than Weber, posted the ad, then who lured whom?

It doesn’t matter, says Jeff Schwartz, Katehis’s lawyer. "You can’t say anything was consensual because John was underage. He can’t consent. If John had been a 16-year-old girl he probably would never have even been arrested." As for Katehis’s claim that Weber gave him beer and drugs, Schwartz says tests taken at the hospital showed alcohol present in Katehis’s blood but not cocaine.

If Katehis has anything on his side, it might be public opinion. Coincidentally, in September, Craigslist closed the "adult services" section of its site — worth a reported $45 million per year in revenue — when negative publicity reached critical mass. Some believe Craigslist must bear a degree of responsibility for criminality facilitated by its site.



For Nicolazzi it all comes down to presenting the facts as they are. "If you don’t try to sugarcoat what actually happened, then you can set the morals aside and focus on the crime," she says. "The encounter was consensual. John Katehis made a decision to kill George Weber, and it was incredibly vicious. You may think Weber’s behavior was reprehensible, but he did nothing criminal. No sexual activity occurred. He didn’t deserve to die."

If establishment comedian Jon Stewart didn’t have the professional dignity to express embarrassment after the President of the United States personally endorsed his upcoming October 30th, Mock-The-People left-wing political rally, no one should be surprised over Stewart’s willingness to unashamedly accept all the Big Media astro-turf that’s already been thrown his way. Obviously the King’s favorite Court Jester has a raging case of Beck-Envy and now all the King’s Media Toadies and all the King’s Corporate Toadies are going to try and put Jon Stewart’s ego back together again: “Doesn’t America know I mock Glenn Beck!”

Free rides to the Jon Stewart rally!

The problem is that Stewart’s already cheating and intentionally gaming the numbers. His wealthy corporate backers and zillionaire media friends are currently pulling out all the stops to lay out a big red green carpet of astro-turf on his behalf – something this strange alliance of Unions and Big Media has had to do to show that Glenn Beck! ever since Beck-A-Palooza shocked everyone by drawing hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of America.

Think about it: One conservative holds one successful rally and now, by my count, that success has so flustered the Left that just a few weeks later they will have organized no less than four angry counter-rallies:

1. BitterFest


2. Bitter-LitterFest


3. SmugFest


4. MiniMeSmugFest

But it’s all as phony as Jon Stewart’s assurances he has no political agenda.

October 2nd’s Bitter-Litter Fest, aka One Nation Rally, was nothing more than an astro-turfed Unionstock with every radical left-wing organization in America spending a ton of money to bus in supporters in the desperate hope of avoiding an embarrassing crowd shot (Mission Not-Accomplished):

Progressives and radicals descended on Washington, DC Saturday demanding more government spending as the way to fix societal ills.  Groups including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, NAACP, Democratic Socialists of America, Organizing for America, Communist Party USA, American Federation of Teachers, Code Pink and National Education Association linked arms in a call for voters to keep Democrats in power. …

After milling in the crowd all day, I would estimate 80%-90% of attendees wore union-affiliated t-shirts. Some others wore ‘I Need a Job’ shirts. We talked to people who were bussed and actually flow in – the Tides Foundation spent a lot of money.

And now we discover that no less than media giant Viacom, through their MTV network, is muscling their employees to give up a Saturday in exchange for a grueling 11-hour round-trip bus ride in order to pack the Stewart crowd with corporate ringers and cheer on The Smug One as he expresses his state-approved contempt for everyday Americans (why else name his counter-rally “Restoring Sanity?”).

Also, as we reported earlier, there’s Arianna Huffington, who’s spending a cool quarter of a million dollars to bus in her own astro-turf, all in the hopes of making successful yet another glaring example of the Left’s open contempt for we everyday bitter-clingers.

Look at how small and mean and petty these people are. We can’t even gather peaceably in large numbers and in a non-partisan way without them feeling so threatened, that beyond all reason, they’re compelled to boorishly bumble in afterwards to puff themselves up with mockery and to make sure they get the last word in. If God were to suddenly strike these fools with the gift of self-awareness, can you imagine how embarrassed they would be over how transparently desperate they are?

All this time, energy and money wasted – all this panicked thumb-on-the-scale organizing just to balm the open wounds of Beck-Envy.

I wonder, though…. Might this have been Beck’s devious, Rove-inspired, Cheney-approved Machiavellian plan the whole time? Does he understand these people so well that he knew a successful rally on his part would so enrage the elite left that they wouldn’t be able to control themselves from launching a whole series of resource-wasting counter-rallies thisclose to a crucial election?

Beck, you magnificent bastard.

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You’re a 16-year-old boy with devilish good looks and a penchant for goofing off. Your YouTube handle is JSKCranks, and you like to film yourself making prank calls. In one call you’re a mean Russian messing with the pizza guy. ("Do you have my money for the marijuana and cocaine I sold you? Cause I’ll cut you, bitch!") Perhaps you get bored with prank calls. So you decide to take your antics on the road, maybe score some cash in the process. You go on the "adult services" section of Craigslist, as you’ll later tell the police, and connect with “Smotherboy.” He’s a 47-year-old ABC radio journalist who’s willing to pay you $60 to come over and smother him — an ambiguous sexual fetish that involves asphyxiation and ... and then what?

At the man’s Carroll Gardens apartment, you’ll later claim, he gives you beer and a white substance that looks like coke.



Then, while bound in duct tape, you later say, Smotherboy pulls a knife. You grab it away and stab him some 50 times. Afterward, you search for money in Smotherboy’s pants, rifle through his lunchbox collection, and then wash yourself in the tub before putting on Smotherboy’s clothes and leaving. You take the G train back to Queens. But the conductor stops the subway when he sees your finger bleeding badly. You go to the hospital, are later arrested, charged with murder in the second degree, and now face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.



You didn’t know New York law permits 16-year-olds to be tried as adults. But you think your chances of getting off are decent. Given the choice between feeling outraged over a brutal killing or disgusted by deviance, jurors might see the case in your lawyer’s terms: a child conscripted by a sexual predator to carry out ungodly acts.



And then the prosecutor walks in.



You were expecting someone mean or severe-looking. But she seems pretty nice: tall, blonde, athletic and lithe in that Icelandic way. The brown eyes, you notice, are slightly misty, and the head is cocked a little to one side as if empathy is hardwired into her brain. In the prosecutor’s demeanor there is something eminently trustworthy. She’s seven months pregnant and just beginning to show.

You look at your own lawyer, dressed in a loud pinstripe suit. What’s he thinking? Probably that in 36 homicide trials, this particular blonde has never had an acquittal.

Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is the prosecutor in the high-profile murder trial of John Katehis, charged with killing George Weber, a freelance journalist for ABC News Radio. The trial began last week, with pretrial hearings and jury selection; opening statements are today.

"Only three kinds of prosecutors have her record," says Ken Taub, who heads the homicide unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office where Nicolazzi works as a homicide bureau chief. "People who exaggerate their records, people who pick and choose their cases, and people like Anna-Sigga, who prepare everything and anticipate everything. Her style is totally professional, no phony flash or showmanship."



In one respect, she’s the embodiment of an archetype used in crime dramas — the attractive trial lawyer who lives and breathes homicides. Her personal history includes an older cousin who was raped and murdered, though she says that didn’t influence her career choice.

"Anna-Sigga has no ego," says Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney who taught Nicolazzi at Brooklyn Law School. "She comes across as a person you can believe in. And of course her looks don’t hurt, either." Could she run for office? "Absolutely, as long as she doesn’t run against me. I don’t want to deal with her in a race."



I first encountered Nicolazzi’s name in 2006 when I was a litigation associate reading about the trial of Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson, the men convicted in the bafflingly horrific torture, murder, and posthumous rape of Romona Moore, a 21-year-old student at Hunter College. The case brought new meaning to courtroom theatrics when, on the first day of trial, Hendrix and Pearson pulled out improvised knives, stabbed one of their own lawyers in the face, and then tried to snatch a court officer’s gun before their uprising was put down. When the trial resumed, the Times reported that Nicolazzi, having declined the judge’s offer to replace her, "sat alone at the prosecution table taking notes with an exaggerated overhand grip."



"After that they called me ‘lobster-claw’ around the office," says Nicolazzi, 40, who grew up on Long Island and has lived in Brooklyn since law school. "That episode stuck with me," she continued. "Now I’m more concerned with where the court officers are and where the defendants are, especially certain defendants."

Katehis, now 18, reportedly had a MySpace page advertising his interests in anarchy, sadomasochism, drinking, roof-hopping, hanging off trains, and "extreme" violence. In a pretrial hearing, Nicolazzi requested that Katehis remove his sneakers because they had satanic images drawn on them.

In court last Wednesday, the defense suffered an early setback when a Brooklyn judge ruled that a post-arrest, videotaped statement by Katehis — in which he tells authorities about meeting Weber on Craigslist, drinking beer and snorting cocaine that Weber had given him, and then stabbing him — could be presented to the jury. And according to sources familiar with the case, at least two aspects of Katehis’s story — that Weber posted the Craigslist ad; and that Weber gave Katehis cocaine, which Katehis claims caused him to react so violently — will be disputed at trial.

So if Katehis, rather than Weber, posted the ad, then who lured whom?

It doesn’t matter, says Jeff Schwartz, Katehis’s lawyer. "You can’t say anything was consensual because John was underage. He can’t consent. If John had been a 16-year-old girl he probably would never have even been arrested." As for Katehis’s claim that Weber gave him beer and drugs, Schwartz says tests taken at the hospital showed alcohol present in Katehis’s blood but not cocaine.

If Katehis has anything on his side, it might be public opinion. Coincidentally, in September, Craigslist closed the "adult services" section of its site — worth a reported $45 million per year in revenue — when negative publicity reached critical mass. Some believe Craigslist must bear a degree of responsibility for criminality facilitated by its site.



For Nicolazzi it all comes down to presenting the facts as they are. "If you don’t try to sugarcoat what actually happened, then you can set the morals aside and focus on the crime," she says. "The encounter was consensual. John Katehis made a decision to kill George Weber, and it was incredibly vicious. You may think Weber’s behavior was reprehensible, but he did nothing criminal. No sexual activity occurred. He didn’t deserve to die."

If establishment comedian Jon Stewart didn’t have the professional dignity to express embarrassment after the President of the United States personally endorsed his upcoming October 30th, Mock-The-People left-wing political rally, no one should be surprised over Stewart’s willingness to unashamedly accept all the Big Media astro-turf that’s already been thrown his way. Obviously the King’s favorite Court Jester has a raging case of Beck-Envy and now all the King’s Media Toadies and all the King’s Corporate Toadies are going to try and put Jon Stewart’s ego back together again: “Doesn’t America know I mock Glenn Beck!”

Free rides to the Jon Stewart rally!

The problem is that Stewart’s already cheating and intentionally gaming the numbers. His wealthy corporate backers and zillionaire media friends are currently pulling out all the stops to lay out a big red green carpet of astro-turf on his behalf – something this strange alliance of Unions and Big Media has had to do to show that Glenn Beck! ever since Beck-A-Palooza shocked everyone by drawing hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of America.

Think about it: One conservative holds one successful rally and now, by my count, that success has so flustered the Left that just a few weeks later they will have organized no less than four angry counter-rallies:

1. BitterFest


2. Bitter-LitterFest


3. SmugFest


4. MiniMeSmugFest

But it’s all as phony as Jon Stewart’s assurances he has no political agenda.

October 2nd’s Bitter-Litter Fest, aka One Nation Rally, was nothing more than an astro-turfed Unionstock with every radical left-wing organization in America spending a ton of money to bus in supporters in the desperate hope of avoiding an embarrassing crowd shot (Mission Not-Accomplished):

Progressives and radicals descended on Washington, DC Saturday demanding more government spending as the way to fix societal ills.  Groups including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, NAACP, Democratic Socialists of America, Organizing for America, Communist Party USA, American Federation of Teachers, Code Pink and National Education Association linked arms in a call for voters to keep Democrats in power. …

After milling in the crowd all day, I would estimate 80%-90% of attendees wore union-affiliated t-shirts. Some others wore ‘I Need a Job’ shirts. We talked to people who were bussed and actually flow in – the Tides Foundation spent a lot of money.

And now we discover that no less than media giant Viacom, through their MTV network, is muscling their employees to give up a Saturday in exchange for a grueling 11-hour round-trip bus ride in order to pack the Stewart crowd with corporate ringers and cheer on The Smug One as he expresses his state-approved contempt for everyday Americans (why else name his counter-rally “Restoring Sanity?”).

Also, as we reported earlier, there’s Arianna Huffington, who’s spending a cool quarter of a million dollars to bus in her own astro-turf, all in the hopes of making successful yet another glaring example of the Left’s open contempt for we everyday bitter-clingers.

Look at how small and mean and petty these people are. We can’t even gather peaceably in large numbers and in a non-partisan way without them feeling so threatened, that beyond all reason, they’re compelled to boorishly bumble in afterwards to puff themselves up with mockery and to make sure they get the last word in. If God were to suddenly strike these fools with the gift of self-awareness, can you imagine how embarrassed they would be over how transparently desperate they are?

All this time, energy and money wasted – all this panicked thumb-on-the-scale organizing just to balm the open wounds of Beck-Envy.

I wonder, though…. Might this have been Beck’s devious, Rove-inspired, Cheney-approved Machiavellian plan the whole time? Does he understand these people so well that he knew a successful rally on his part would so enrage the elite left that they wouldn’t be able to control themselves from launching a whole series of resource-wasting counter-rallies thisclose to a crucial election?

Beck, you magnificent bastard.

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You’re a 16-year-old boy with devilish good looks and a penchant for goofing off. Your YouTube handle is JSKCranks, and you like to film yourself making prank calls. In one call you’re a mean Russian messing with the pizza guy. ("Do you have my money for the marijuana and cocaine I sold you? Cause I’ll cut you, bitch!") Perhaps you get bored with prank calls. So you decide to take your antics on the road, maybe score some cash in the process. You go on the "adult services" section of Craigslist, as you’ll later tell the police, and connect with “Smotherboy.” He’s a 47-year-old ABC radio journalist who’s willing to pay you $60 to come over and smother him — an ambiguous sexual fetish that involves asphyxiation and ... and then what?

At the man’s Carroll Gardens apartment, you’ll later claim, he gives you beer and a white substance that looks like coke.



Then, while bound in duct tape, you later say, Smotherboy pulls a knife. You grab it away and stab him some 50 times. Afterward, you search for money in Smotherboy’s pants, rifle through his lunchbox collection, and then wash yourself in the tub before putting on Smotherboy’s clothes and leaving. You take the G train back to Queens. But the conductor stops the subway when he sees your finger bleeding badly. You go to the hospital, are later arrested, charged with murder in the second degree, and now face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.



You didn’t know New York law permits 16-year-olds to be tried as adults. But you think your chances of getting off are decent. Given the choice between feeling outraged over a brutal killing or disgusted by deviance, jurors might see the case in your lawyer’s terms: a child conscripted by a sexual predator to carry out ungodly acts.



And then the prosecutor walks in.



You were expecting someone mean or severe-looking. But she seems pretty nice: tall, blonde, athletic and lithe in that Icelandic way. The brown eyes, you notice, are slightly misty, and the head is cocked a little to one side as if empathy is hardwired into her brain. In the prosecutor’s demeanor there is something eminently trustworthy. She’s seven months pregnant and just beginning to show.

You look at your own lawyer, dressed in a loud pinstripe suit. What’s he thinking? Probably that in 36 homicide trials, this particular blonde has never had an acquittal.

Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is the prosecutor in the high-profile murder trial of John Katehis, charged with killing George Weber, a freelance journalist for ABC News Radio. The trial began last week, with pretrial hearings and jury selection; opening statements are today.

"Only three kinds of prosecutors have her record," says Ken Taub, who heads the homicide unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office where Nicolazzi works as a homicide bureau chief. "People who exaggerate their records, people who pick and choose their cases, and people like Anna-Sigga, who prepare everything and anticipate everything. Her style is totally professional, no phony flash or showmanship."



In one respect, she’s the embodiment of an archetype used in crime dramas — the attractive trial lawyer who lives and breathes homicides. Her personal history includes an older cousin who was raped and murdered, though she says that didn’t influence her career choice.

"Anna-Sigga has no ego," says Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney who taught Nicolazzi at Brooklyn Law School. "She comes across as a person you can believe in. And of course her looks don’t hurt, either." Could she run for office? "Absolutely, as long as she doesn’t run against me. I don’t want to deal with her in a race."



I first encountered Nicolazzi’s name in 2006 when I was a litigation associate reading about the trial of Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson, the men convicted in the bafflingly horrific torture, murder, and posthumous rape of Romona Moore, a 21-year-old student at Hunter College. The case brought new meaning to courtroom theatrics when, on the first day of trial, Hendrix and Pearson pulled out improvised knives, stabbed one of their own lawyers in the face, and then tried to snatch a court officer’s gun before their uprising was put down. When the trial resumed, the Times reported that Nicolazzi, having declined the judge’s offer to replace her, "sat alone at the prosecution table taking notes with an exaggerated overhand grip."



"After that they called me ‘lobster-claw’ around the office," says Nicolazzi, 40, who grew up on Long Island and has lived in Brooklyn since law school. "That episode stuck with me," she continued. "Now I’m more concerned with where the court officers are and where the defendants are, especially certain defendants."

Katehis, now 18, reportedly had a MySpace page advertising his interests in anarchy, sadomasochism, drinking, roof-hopping, hanging off trains, and "extreme" violence. In a pretrial hearing, Nicolazzi requested that Katehis remove his sneakers because they had satanic images drawn on them.

In court last Wednesday, the defense suffered an early setback when a Brooklyn judge ruled that a post-arrest, videotaped statement by Katehis — in which he tells authorities about meeting Weber on Craigslist, drinking beer and snorting cocaine that Weber had given him, and then stabbing him — could be presented to the jury. And according to sources familiar with the case, at least two aspects of Katehis’s story — that Weber posted the Craigslist ad; and that Weber gave Katehis cocaine, which Katehis claims caused him to react so violently — will be disputed at trial.

So if Katehis, rather than Weber, posted the ad, then who lured whom?

It doesn’t matter, says Jeff Schwartz, Katehis’s lawyer. "You can’t say anything was consensual because John was underage. He can’t consent. If John had been a 16-year-old girl he probably would never have even been arrested." As for Katehis’s claim that Weber gave him beer and drugs, Schwartz says tests taken at the hospital showed alcohol present in Katehis’s blood but not cocaine.

If Katehis has anything on his side, it might be public opinion. Coincidentally, in September, Craigslist closed the "adult services" section of its site — worth a reported $45 million per year in revenue — when negative publicity reached critical mass. Some believe Craigslist must bear a degree of responsibility for criminality facilitated by its site.



For Nicolazzi it all comes down to presenting the facts as they are. "If you don’t try to sugarcoat what actually happened, then you can set the morals aside and focus on the crime," she says. "The encounter was consensual. John Katehis made a decision to kill George Weber, and it was incredibly vicious. You may think Weber’s behavior was reprehensible, but he did nothing criminal. No sexual activity occurred. He didn’t deserve to die."

If establishment comedian Jon Stewart didn’t have the professional dignity to express embarrassment after the President of the United States personally endorsed his upcoming October 30th, Mock-The-People left-wing political rally, no one should be surprised over Stewart’s willingness to unashamedly accept all the Big Media astro-turf that’s already been thrown his way. Obviously the King’s favorite Court Jester has a raging case of Beck-Envy and now all the King’s Media Toadies and all the King’s Corporate Toadies are going to try and put Jon Stewart’s ego back together again: “Doesn’t America know I mock Glenn Beck!”

Free rides to the Jon Stewart rally!

The problem is that Stewart’s already cheating and intentionally gaming the numbers. His wealthy corporate backers and zillionaire media friends are currently pulling out all the stops to lay out a big red green carpet of astro-turf on his behalf – something this strange alliance of Unions and Big Media has had to do to show that Glenn Beck! ever since Beck-A-Palooza shocked everyone by drawing hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of America.

Think about it: One conservative holds one successful rally and now, by my count, that success has so flustered the Left that just a few weeks later they will have organized no less than four angry counter-rallies:

1. BitterFest


2. Bitter-LitterFest


3. SmugFest


4. MiniMeSmugFest

But it’s all as phony as Jon Stewart’s assurances he has no political agenda.

October 2nd’s Bitter-Litter Fest, aka One Nation Rally, was nothing more than an astro-turfed Unionstock with every radical left-wing organization in America spending a ton of money to bus in supporters in the desperate hope of avoiding an embarrassing crowd shot (Mission Not-Accomplished):

Progressives and radicals descended on Washington, DC Saturday demanding more government spending as the way to fix societal ills.  Groups including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, NAACP, Democratic Socialists of America, Organizing for America, Communist Party USA, American Federation of Teachers, Code Pink and National Education Association linked arms in a call for voters to keep Democrats in power. …

After milling in the crowd all day, I would estimate 80%-90% of attendees wore union-affiliated t-shirts. Some others wore ‘I Need a Job’ shirts. We talked to people who were bussed and actually flow in – the Tides Foundation spent a lot of money.

And now we discover that no less than media giant Viacom, through their MTV network, is muscling their employees to give up a Saturday in exchange for a grueling 11-hour round-trip bus ride in order to pack the Stewart crowd with corporate ringers and cheer on The Smug One as he expresses his state-approved contempt for everyday Americans (why else name his counter-rally “Restoring Sanity?”).

Also, as we reported earlier, there’s Arianna Huffington, who’s spending a cool quarter of a million dollars to bus in her own astro-turf, all in the hopes of making successful yet another glaring example of the Left’s open contempt for we everyday bitter-clingers.

Look at how small and mean and petty these people are. We can’t even gather peaceably in large numbers and in a non-partisan way without them feeling so threatened, that beyond all reason, they’re compelled to boorishly bumble in afterwards to puff themselves up with mockery and to make sure they get the last word in. If God were to suddenly strike these fools with the gift of self-awareness, can you imagine how embarrassed they would be over how transparently desperate they are?

All this time, energy and money wasted – all this panicked thumb-on-the-scale organizing just to balm the open wounds of Beck-Envy.

I wonder, though…. Might this have been Beck’s devious, Rove-inspired, Cheney-approved Machiavellian plan the whole time? Does he understand these people so well that he knew a successful rally on his part would so enrage the elite left that they wouldn’t be able to control themselves from launching a whole series of resource-wasting counter-rallies thisclose to a crucial election?

Beck, you magnificent bastard.

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Well, I'm still not rich, but I have a few scattered things that I do until I get lazy and stop doing "my thing". Nothing that I do has ever cost me anything and I have made a tidy little sum sitting in this chair. Some of the things I do I found by mistake and some things I found by people like me who decided to write about it. I say thank you to them because there are many writers who's work has helped me along my way!

So, here are some things you can do to make money online starting today.

Lots of companies take surveys to enhance their marketability. I personally hate doing surveys, so I don't do them. A lot of them pay by points or entries into contests. But, don't discount this method. There are tons of people just like me who hate doing surveys. That means there are plenty of chances for other people to win those contests because of the limited entries. I admit, I have taken some surveys that were kinda fun. Actually, my seven year old son has even taken some surveys and he thought that was kinda cool. They were totally legit by the way, they actually asked for HIS opinion because they were child based products.

Another way to make money online is by writing articles. I love to write, so this is by far my favorite way to make money online. This can be done in many ways. You can get paid to blog. You can join a site like the one I am writing this article on (Associated Content). The thing I love about the article writing on sites like these is that I am not trying to sell anything. I just get to write about whatever I want. Being a single mom that works at home, I like to share my information with other struggling parents. It makes me feel good and puts money in my pocket.

You can't beat that! Associated Content is my favorite site to write for because the pay really is not bad and they let me choose what i want to write about. I know that some other sites put in requests for articles on specific topics. While this site does put in requests for that, you are not limited to write for those requests. Now seriously, where else can you get paid just to share information that interests you?

You can also ghostwrite. Personally, this is not something I enjoy, but I do from time to time when my creative juices are limited and I can't think of things for me to write about.

Make a site and use Adsense on your site. It's pretty easy and doens't cost anything.

Join an affiliate program. This can be pretty lucrative if you really work on it. I love getting emails saying "You have just made (however much." and I didn't even do anything!

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Neglecting to collect customer data. Every time you make a sale, it's an opportunity to make another sale down the road. Remember that your existing customers are your best source of revenue. But you can only tap them if you have a method for keeping track of them. Sonny Ahuja, the CEO of Grandperfumes.com, learned that the hard way. "Five years ago I had seven stores selling designer perfumes and colognes in all major malls of Wisconsin," he says. When he began losing customers to Amazon and eBay, Ahuja decided to close his stores and move his business online. But when he launched Grandperfumes.com, he had no money for online marketing.  "That's when I realized that if only all my sales people had collected all the names and addresses of customers that came to my stores for the past eight years — imagine the power of that database! I could have been back in business in no time." Now, he's diligent about collecting and segmenting customer data on Grandperfumes.com.

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Relying too heavily on the Internet. So you've been exceptionally clever with your web strategy and your organic vegan dog food is at the tippity-top of the relevant search engine rankings. The stuff is practically selling itself. Good for you! Until, that is, Google gives you a nasty smack down. That's what happened to Christian Arno, founder Lingo24, an international translation company with offices in London; Aberdeen, Scotland; and New York City. "In 2006, our high Google rankings for key search terms suffered, probably because of Google changing its search algorithm," says Arno. "We suddenly dropped on Google search results for terms we'd always ranked highly for such as translation services and translation agencies. We didn't have any proactive sales strategy in place, so our revenue suffered." Since then, he's hired several outbound sales people who proactively identify potential clients. "And our Google rankings are back up too now, so we have two strong avenues for sales," says Arno.

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Failing to qualify leads. "When I first started in sales, I was an eager beaver," recalls Jon Biedermann,
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Biedermann realized his error instantly. "In my zeal to get the sale, I completely forgot to ask the one crucial question: Do you have the authority and money to make this decision?"  

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Delaying sales until your product or service is ready for primetime. There's a lot to be said for doing market research for a new product or service by trying to sell it while it's still in development. That way, you'll find out exactly what customers want before you spend time perfecting your offering in a vacuum. "Entrepreneurs should hit the streets, and talk to 'friendlies' to sell your product or service even when its still just an idea, and ask people what they are willing to pay for it," says Kyle Hawke, co-founder of Whinot, a Charlottesville, Virginia-based virtual firm of independent consultants who work on small business marketing projects. Hawke learned that lesson after spending $5,000 on web features that he says "no one cared about." He now knows that he should have tested Whinot out on low-risk clients who were willing to sign on for a discounted price – or a free trial – while he and his partners worked out the kinks. "The best way to figure out how much something is worth is to get someone to pay for it," he says.

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Accepting every sale. "No" is not a popular word among entrepreneurs, especially during the start-up phase, and most especially as it pertains to sales. But maybe it should be uttered more often, because the wrong kind of sale is ultimately worse than no sale at all. "It's a big challenge as a small company to say 'No, thanks, this isn't a good fit for us, please give your money to someone else,'" says Michael Buckingham, founder of Holy Cow Creative, a Midland, Michigan, design and marketing company that works with churches and ministries. "In the beginning I said yes to everyone; financially, it felt like I had to," he says. "Next thing I knew I was involved in a project that was not good for me or the client. We pushed through it, we met our objectives but our work is about more than projects and invoices. I learned that relationships are key to sales. It's why I now turn down nearly every RFP; it's void of relationship."

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Offloading the sales function. When Tom Greenshaw first started Cashier Live in Chicago, he wanted to focus mainly on product development and support for the web-based point of sales software that he sells to independent retailers. So he built a sales channel with affiliates and partners, hoping to offload as much of the direct sales function as possible. "This seemed to be working well and we quickly signed up a number of partners that were interested in selling Cashier Live," he says. "But those partners weren't as well versed in the software as we were."  Many of them over-promised customers regarding the capabilities of the software, or dragged Greenshaw's staff into the sales process, which confused customers and ate up company time and resources. "I learned a lot from this experience, and we've since been very successful with our own sales efforts," he says today. When he tries selling through channel partners again, he'll make sure to train them thoroughly on the company's software.

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Fixating on big fish. When Scott Gerber first founded Sizzle It!, a New York City-based video production company, he admits that he "used to be obsessed with only going after home-run clients—those that had big names and huge wallets."  But selling to very large companies is time consuming and often frustrating since decision-making is slow and payments even slower. Sizzle It! ultimately landed big clients like Procter & Gamble, but closing sales would sometimes take six months or more. And frequently, Gerber's staff would put months of effort into sales that never materialized. "The pursuit of these titans often put us in cash flow crunches," says Gerber. "My biggest mistake in guiding Sizzle It!'s strategy in its earlier years was not going after more base-hit clients. Now, we have an even split of clients, which has not only helped us to spread the word about our company faster, but also helped us to maintain a healthy cash flow."

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Chicago-based Groupon is certainly one heck of a startup. Like Zynga it sort of came out of nowhere in 2009. Even last December I was sort of only vaguely aware of how fast it was growing.

But it was clear by early 2010 to the whole world that Groupon was on a tear. First a round valuing it at $250 million. Then just a couple of months later it raised new money at a $1.35 billion valuation.

And then in the last few weeks Yahoo offered something even higher for the company – between $1.7 billion on the low side and probably $4 billion on the high side. And Groupon passed.

Revenues are in the $50 million per month range, and the company has roughly 50% gross margins. By some measures, Groupon is the fastest growing company, ever.

Groupon is often said to be the next eBay at Silicon Valley insider dinners and events. But Groupon isn’t going to have the same success eBay has had.

At first blush it seems like a valid comparison. Groupon’s revenues and profits blow the early Ebay results out of the water. When eBay was three years old and going public in 1998 it had revenues of just $4.7 million. Groupon does that much in revenue every three days or so right now.

Today eBay has revenues of a little over $2 billion every three months and is worth around $30 billion. It’s not at all unreasonable to think that Groupon could eventually grow its revenues way beyond $2 billion/quarter – the local products and services category would easily bear that kind of fruit.

But there’s a couple of problems with Groupon. The first is how it scales – it needs a lot of sales people for each market it handles and already probably has more than 2,000 of them on payroll. But the real problem is the complete lack of a network effect to protect its business.

Ebay is expensive. And it has a horrible user interface. Buying stuff is a pain compared with sites like Amazon that have put real effort into making buying painless. It’s also expensive. Everyone would love a better eBay, but after ten years of people trying to kill it, it just keeps going.

Why? Because everyone’s already on eBay. And every new buyer or seller makes eBay more valuable than it was before. Anyone competing with them has to find a way to counter that, and it’s nearly impossible. Even free listings from big companies like Amazon and Yahoo flailed dramatically.

In other words, eBay would have to really work at it to destroy its core business. And since it dominates the market it can continue to charge exorbitant fees and not worry about the user experience.

Groupon has none of that. When Groupon gets a new user that’s great. But that user will quickly leave to Living Social or One Kings Lane or any of thousands of other competing sites for better deals. And when Groupon gets a new “seller,” there’s no reason why that seller won’t also go try out the competitors, too.

There’s just no network effect in Groupon’s business model. Which means competitors can flourish and margins will get crushed.

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Benchmark Capital’s Matt Cohler said he wasn’t sure if Groupon would succeed over the long term. I asked him if he wished he was an investor in Groupon:

That question keeps me up at night. the question for me is…if you look at it from a purely academic point of view, there are neither barriers to entry nor are there switching costs in that product. Typically when a product has those characteristics margins tend to collapse over time. In theory the only thing stopping that from happening is Groupon’s brand…It may turn out that daily deals are ad units, and lots of different products can apply that ad unit.

What can Groupon do to avoid having their margins crushed by competitors? Establish generous revenue sharing relationships with distribution partners, fast. And that appears to be exactly what they’re doing. In the next several weeks the company will likely announce partnerships with Yahoo and CitySearch, we’ve learned.

Oh, and one more partner, too. And that partner will be…eBay.

Update: Great email comment from Alex Rampell:

I actually think Groupon is a “winner take most” market and not winner take all. Amazon has a plurality yet a distinct minority of ecommerce share ($25B in 2009 revenue out of WW ecommerce rev of $600B) yet has a market cap of $74B, 2.5X that of eBay. No barriers to entry.

There are no barriers to entry for online commerce companies — yet Amazon keeps decimating the competition. There are, however, economies of scale. I think Groupon can be the Amazon of Online2Offline commerce, and there’s no reason they can’t get to $25B in annualized revenue like Amazon, but at a much higher margin.

Whether they’ll command the same kind of earnings multiple as Amazon is another story.

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worse, the debate with Brown was held on Spanish-language station Univision, pushing the burgeoning scandal even further to the front of the campaign. Brown took the opportunity to slam Whitman as a hypocrite for calling for a crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants while doing the same herself. Whitman shot back that she had fired the woman in question when she learned about her immigration status and blamed Democrats for putting her in the spotlight against her wishes.

Polls show the national Latino vote, while favoring Democrats, is significantly less likely to turn out this time around, and Whitman has been trying to cut down on the Democrats’ traditional lead in this demographic even further with Spanish-language outreach of her own. If immigration stays the hot topic in the race going into the final stretch, it could potentially change the dynamic in this regard.

Whitman has spent $140 million of her own money on the race so far, absolutely dominating the airwaves compared to Brown, so the fact that she’s still in a tight race in the polls should be a major source of concern. As John Corzine discovered in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race, campaign cash can only go so far.

In an interesting development, both Brown and Whitman pulled out of a scheduled radio debate for Wednesday night.

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• Shushannah Walshe: Palin’s Achilles’ Heel Another race to watch is Florida’s House contest in Orlando between incumbent Democratic flamethrower Alan Grayson and Republican challenger Daniel Webster. Grayson’s well-known for his incredibly combative style, most famously in his assertion on the House floor that the Republicans’ health-care plan was for you to “die quickly.” It’s netted him the highest fundraising numbers of any Democratic House member, but it’s possible he’s finally gone so far that even he realizes it’s time to cool down. After airing a highly selectively edited ad of his opponent, whom he dubbed “Taliban Dan,” he drew widespread condemnation in the media and from nonpartisan Factcheck.org for what many considered an unfair smear. It’s easy to see how the race shifted in our model from a 50-50 split to a 60 percent chance of victory for Webster in the last 24 hours—the top phrase in its word cloud is “Taliban Dan,” 73 percent of the online buzz is about Grayson, and 55 percent of it is positive for Webster.

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worse, the debate with Brown was held on Spanish-language station Univision, pushing the burgeoning scandal even further to the front of the campaign. Brown took the opportunity to slam Whitman as a hypocrite for calling for a crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants while doing the same herself. Whitman shot back that she had fired the woman in question when she learned about her immigration status and blamed Democrats for putting her in the spotlight against her wishes.

Polls show the national Latino vote, while favoring Democrats, is significantly less likely to turn out this time around, and Whitman has been trying to cut down on the Democrats’ traditional lead in this demographic even further with Spanish-language outreach of her own. If immigration stays the hot topic in the race going into the final stretch, it could potentially change the dynamic in this regard.

Whitman has spent $140 million of her own money on the race so far, absolutely dominating the airwaves compared to Brown, so the fact that she’s still in a tight race in the polls should be a major source of concern. As John Corzine discovered in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race, campaign cash can only go so far.

In an interesting development, both Brown and Whitman pulled out of a scheduled radio debate for Wednesday night.

In an interesting development, both Brown and Whitman pulled out of a scheduled radio debate for Wednesday night, a decision campaign reps for both sides said was “mutual”. Are both candidates nervous about how the housekeeper issue might play?

• Benjamin Sarlin: The Tea Party Meltdown

• Shushannah Walshe: Palin’s Achilles’ Heel Another race to watch is Florida’s House contest in Orlando between incumbent Democratic flamethrower Alan Grayson and Republican challenger Daniel Webster. Grayson’s well-known for his incredibly combative style, most famously in his assertion on the House floor that the Republicans’ health-care plan was for you to “die quickly.” It’s netted him the highest fundraising numbers of any Democratic House member, but it’s possible he’s finally gone so far that even he realizes it’s time to cool down. After airing a highly selectively edited ad of his opponent, whom he dubbed “Taliban Dan,” he drew widespread condemnation in the media and from nonpartisan Factcheck.org for what many considered an unfair smear. It’s easy to see how the race shifted in our model from a 50-50 split to a 60 percent chance of victory for Webster in the last 24 hours—the top phrase in its word cloud is “Taliban Dan,” 73 percent of the online buzz is about Grayson, and 55 percent of it is positive for Webster.

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worse, the debate with Brown was held on Spanish-language station Univision, pushing the burgeoning scandal even further to the front of the campaign. Brown took the opportunity to slam Whitman as a hypocrite for calling for a crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants while doing the same herself. Whitman shot back that she had fired the woman in question when she learned about her immigration status and blamed Democrats for putting her in the spotlight against her wishes.

Polls show the national Latino vote, while favoring Democrats, is significantly less likely to turn out this time around, and Whitman has been trying to cut down on the Democrats’ traditional lead in this demographic even further with Spanish-language outreach of her own. If immigration stays the hot topic in the race going into the final stretch, it could potentially change the dynamic in this regard.

Whitman has spent $140 million of her own money on the race so far, absolutely dominating the airwaves compared to Brown, so the fact that she’s still in a tight race in the polls should be a major source of concern. As John Corzine discovered in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race, campaign cash can only go so far.

In an interesting development, both Brown and Whitman pulled out of a scheduled radio debate for Wednesday night.

In an interesting development, both Brown and Whitman pulled out of a scheduled radio debate for Wednesday night, a decision campaign reps for both sides said was “mutual”. Are both candidates nervous about how the housekeeper issue might play?

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• Shushannah Walshe: Palin’s Achilles’ Heel Another race to watch is Florida’s House contest in Orlando between incumbent Democratic flamethrower Alan Grayson and Republican challenger Daniel Webster. Grayson’s well-known for his incredibly combative style, most famously in his assertion on the House floor that the Republicans’ health-care plan was for you to “die quickly.” It’s netted him the highest fundraising numbers of any Democratic House member, but it’s possible he’s finally gone so far that even he realizes it’s time to cool down. After airing a highly selectively edited ad of his opponent, whom he dubbed “Taliban Dan,” he drew widespread condemnation in the media and from nonpartisan Factcheck.org for what many considered an unfair smear. It’s easy to see how the race shifted in our model from a 50-50 split to a 60 percent chance of victory for Webster in the last 24 hours—the top phrase in its word cloud is “Taliban Dan,” 73 percent of the online buzz is about Grayson, and 55 percent of it is positive for Webster.

Benjamin Sarlin is the Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast and edits the site's politics blog, Beltway Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.

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