Apologia

David Crisp at Billings Blog is displeased with the updated response offered on a disputed MH post, calling it "even by blogsphere standards, remarkably ungracious."

One one word of self-defense before moving on: It is important to point out that the word "Olympian" was intended in the sense in which it is attached to superior and lofty human feats and abilities -- not in the sense that Obama has literally descended as a god from Mt. Olympus. By definition, using the word "Olympian" is literary hyperbole.

But that is not the point to this post. Mr. Crisp, as a longtime MH reader, is doubtless aware that given the emphasis on this site of maintaining an atmosphere of civility and fairness (while trying not to be boring in the process,) few accusations could have cut deeper.

One suspects, given the content of his most recent response, that part of Mr. Crisp's strong reaction to that particular Montana Headlines post is perhaps the result of his reading the full weight of the vile temper of Sean Hannity into certain MH words, when the truth is that unlike Mr. Crisp, no-one in the Montana Headlines household is constitutionally capable of listening to that man for longer than about 3 to 5 minutes. Pretty much the entirety of MH knowledge of the content of Hannity's radio show comes from reading Billings Blog.

While the post in question seemed like standard blogosphere give-and-take at the time, it obviously failed in that regard, and rather than rehashing the entire discussion, it is preferable to do what this post is intended to do: offer a full and unqualified apology for mischaracterizing Mr. Crisp's words and opinions in the post in question.

Given that the eastern Montana political blogosphere currently consists of exactly two active sites -- Billings Blog and Montana Headlines, any sort of unpleasantry in the neighborhood is undesirable. MH would like to offer an olive branch, pledging to take particular care in future posts when making reference to Billings Blog posts.