(REPORTING LIVE...)

~5:55pm~ EST
HE'S BACK!!!!!:

What this is - is a total and complete disrespect for the medium of blogging. It is the actions of the self-superior "big media" journalists (be they on our side even) steam rolling over the pajamaboys and pajamagirls and not caring one ounce about the end result.

In the picture above what you are looking at is none other than John Fund returning to the scene of the crime and this time swiping the computer of Robert Cox of The National Debate.

As this picture was taken by blog-sleuth Wes Roth, Bob and I were in the food court 100 yards away grabbing our lunch so that we could return to an afternoon of blogging.

Wes snapped the shot and made a bee-line to find us.
1. Because it was Bob's computer and Fund again had no permission to access the laptop.
2. Because as "chatty-cathy" as Fund had been earlier in the morning to us bloggers, he obviously had not seen an ounce of the swarm coverage - which is growing but was still considerably all over the blogosphere, and he had not learned his lesson yet.

After Fund had made his "laptop snatch" this morning some of the bloggers had kidded around that perhaps it had been unfair to draw attention to Fund's use of someone's laptop without their permission. Doverspa at RedState even said that he wasn't bothered by Fund using the machine, even though it was rude and he had been inconvenienced.

My comment at the time was this. "It's not about the laptop. It's about us - the medium - bloggers".

Sean Hannity last week attempted to credit his web-site as a "high traffic blog", and then he promptly went on to trounce the Freepers in the process. Today within a period of 3 hours, John Fund thrice referred to his column as a blog - while making small talk with the credentialed bloggers - and then went on to violate their personal laptops to do whatever the jolly well he pleased on them.

After Roth showed me the still shot above on his digital camera I made a beeline back to the blogger's corner and he was still there.

The consensus among us bloggers is that he was doing this for his own convenience so that he would not have to stand in line on Internet row to access a TownHall.com computer that had been set up for CPAC attendees to do just what Fund wished to do.

And for clarification - here's what the signs above each of the areas looked like: