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April 1, 2006
Offer

Hmmm. I just checked MoonofA email. Sent yesterday, there was an offer from an "Assistant to Seth Lipsky" at "One SL, LLC." to buy all rights to MoA. I would stay posting for some, yet undefined, "decent compensation".

$10,000 as an opening offer is definitly undervalued for MoA, but openings are, of course, on the low side.

So how do I go about it?

(She/he/whoever sent that mail or maybe even "Master" Lipsky himself will read here, so please let me know otherwise).

Posted by b on April 1, 2006 at 19:24 UTC | Permalink
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I hope this is not a variation of the Nigerian scam.
if this is for real I am more than a little curious as to why anyone would buy. is it for the circa half million hits per year?

Posted by: dan of steele | Apr 1 2006 19:39 utc | 1

Seth Lipsk

In September 1976 Mr. Lipsky joined the founding staff of The Asian Wall Street Journal, becoming its managing editor in 1978. In 1980 he returned to the U.S. as associate editor of the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. He subsequently served as foreign editor, senior editor and a member of the Journal’s editorial board. In 1984 he moved Brussels, where he served as editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe edition. In 1986, the editorial page of the Asian edition was added to his responsibilities.
In January 1990, Mr. Lipsky resigned from the Journal to lead the effort to bring out the Forward in English as a national Jewish newspaper in the United States. In 1995, he and three partners acquired a minority ownership of the Forward as part of a medium term plan to restore the Forward to daily publication. Mr. Lipsky resigned as editor and president of the Forward in May 2000, the 10th anniversary of the newspaper’s launch in English.

heavens!

Posted by: annie | Apr 1 2006 20:02 utc | 2

One SL, LLC is the address of the New York Sun

Posted by: dan of steele | Apr 1 2006 20:08 utc | 3

mr lipsky and those brave swiftboaters for truth
an american story!!

    I’ve attended at a lot of editorial dinners over the years, but it is hard to recall one as enjoyable — or illuminating — as the sitting with Mr. O’Neill. One can call the story of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth the flip side of the tarnished coin of CBS. One was the vaunted network that flubbed the story of a generation.The other was a true band of brothers, professional newsmen not, who had a story that none of the big institutions wanted.They put it on the air themselves with the contributions of more than 150,000 ordinary Americans and discovered that it resonated powerfully with an electorate that had grown tired of being treated with cynicism.
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    Threats of lawsuits didn’t faze any of them. In the case of the sailors, they had already put their lives on the line, and in the case of the prisoners of war, they had already withstood torture on behalf of America’s cause. Telephoned death threats and the sneers of the glitterati meant little. And they knew their story.The moment Senator Kerry stepped onto the podium of the Democratic Convention in Boston, snapped a salute, and announced he was reporting for duty, Mr. Corsi, who had been studying the anti-war movement for years, knew that “Unfit for Command” was going to become a runaway best-seller.

Posted by: annie | Apr 1 2006 20:12 utc | 4

MY NAME IS ABNER LAWIMBE OF NIGERIA AND I REPRESENT THE ESTATE OF MY DEAD FATHER WHO HAS LEFT OVER 10,000,000 DOLLARS WHICH I NEED TO SAFELY DEPOSIT AT YOUR SITE….

Posted by: ralphieboy | Apr 1 2006 20:31 utc | 5

The slow creep of commercial operations into the blogs. They would ahve you neutralizing the place real fast b. But, do what you’ve got to do. I know one thing, the postings here rate far and above other sites in intellectual content.
Only the actual peices (diaries) themselves at kos, atrios, and others rate well. Some do not. Only a few at some of these sites really have good diaries. Here, the subject is posted and then much more of the intellectual content comes out. This is a great blog.
Its worth more than their offering.

Posted by: jdp | Apr 1 2006 20:35 utc | 6

B-, you can’t be serious??? Collect money for killing Moon?? Why not just post on wkends… then you wouldn’t have to work so hard, and there would be a tremendous concentration of energy here on wkends??

Posted by: jj | Apr 1 2006 20:50 utc | 7

10,000 is a lot of money to pass up. it’s not like we couldn’t move the bar down the street. but the implications are strange. i wonder how many other sites have gotten offers. what if there is some plot underway to divert, confuse, and create havok for lefty bloggers? instead of infiltrating byway of fake voices, trolls or whatever they are amassing $$$$ to just buy everyone out. i don’t know how the web works, i’m not a techie. chances are you’re not the only one getting this offer and i don’t know what the chances are it’s a genuine offer. they are watching us, that’s a given.

Posted by: annie | Apr 1 2006 21:01 utc | 8

If it comes down to a money issue, I am pretty sure that others would join me in matching Mr Lipsky’s offer. IIRC Billmon got a laptop and some change when he mentioned he needed some money to pay for extra bandwidth.
call it employee profit sharing or something similar.

Posted by: dan of steele | Apr 1 2006 21:34 utc | 9

Why would anyone buy? To stifle it. If the offer really is on the up-and-up, and this fella splooges when he hears the “not so Swifties”, I would imagine he would rather not hear the thoughts expressed here. Or have others hear them. 10Gs is pocket change to these types and they know it isn’t for most.
My, my, how the worm turns

Posted by: gmac | Apr 1 2006 22:27 utc | 10

but it is April 1, isn’t it? Doh.

Posted by: gmac | Apr 1 2006 22:31 utc | 11

april fools?

Posted by: onzaga | Apr 1 2006 22:33 utc | 12

I’M SUCH A SUCKER!!!!

Posted by: annie | Apr 1 2006 22:38 utc | 13

My 14y.o. daughter came running in earlier most discommoded with the news that she had heard on the radio that all mobile phones of under 16’s were about to be confiscated. She was really upset, I guess it’s just one of those days eh!

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 1 2006 22:40 utc | 14

Hah! You had me frothing at the mouth, too, B! Tickled the paranoid nerve center!

Posted by: mercuria | Apr 1 2006 22:55 utc | 15

B- if you don’t accept that offer, I’d like to extend an invitation to set you up as a pasha, with college coeds to feed you grapes and massage your overworked fingers from all this blogging. Later, they will run baths for you with lavendar and rose petals and wash your back.
and, oh yeah, april fools.
…but if anyone wants to do that for me, just as a kindness, please substitute the coeds for young men about, oh, 26 years old. It’s not the same as Billmon’s computer, and I can’t expect anyone to actually help me out of the big mess my life is otherwise, but that would be a nice…diversion.
actually, with the money that would cost, I should beg for funds to go to various sites to view Horae by Simon Bening, but no one would take me seriously.

Posted by: fauxreal | Apr 2 2006 1:34 utc | 16

Might be interesting if you could get George Soros and Ted Turner in on the bidding.
*Any* other MSM rep would be considered ‘collaborating with the enemy’.

Posted by: pb | Apr 2 2006 3:05 utc | 17

Thanx for reminding us that we mustn’t take this all too seriously…

Posted by: ralphieboy | Apr 2 2006 7:01 utc | 18

Thanks for the fun 🙂

Posted by: b | Apr 2 2006 17:06 utc | 19

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