Friends, we have been betrayed. A blogger whom you have long trusted to deliver information untainted by the slightest hint of conservative doctrine, a liberal's liberal, a progressive's progressive, a man so far to the left that he has been compared to Mao Tze-tung, Che Guevara, and Susan Sarandon, is working for the king of right-wing propaganda: Rupert Murdoch.

According to a reliable source, the dagblogger known to you as destor23 is a fake. Destor is not his real name. He does not have a flowing blond mullet and bulging muscles as advertised by his picture. His real name is Michael Maiello. Ric Flair, the blond goliath whose identity Maiello stole, could crush him like a saltine into his chicken soup.

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According to the google, this Maiello character used to write for Forbes magazine, so he is obviously a longtime radical capitalist.

This morning, Maiello revealed just how deep he wallows in right-wing filth by penning a column for The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's latest disinformation machine. Murdoch has billed his new iPad newspaper as "centrist," but few have fallen for such an obvious deception.

Maiello's first column pretends to criticize Sarah Palin, but irony experts have concluded that the article is actually a coded message meant to promote her agenda.

Political analyst Dr. Hans Von Oleeb noted that the article appears to endorse President Obama's notorious Sputnik reference from his recent State of the Union address. "Since Obama is actually a covert Republican," observed Oleeb, "The Sputnik analogy is a covert Republican analogy, which means that Maiello supports covert Republican analogies."

But Obama spokesperson Anton Trope denied that Maiello had endorsed the Sputnik reference. He told reporters, "Maiello's criticism of the Pythagorean theorem demonstrates that he is not willing to work with the President to move the nation forward." Trope also defended the President's analogy, adding, "In an ideal world, the President would not have had to invoke Sputnik, but the reality is that he's dealing with a Republican majority in the House. He had to compromise his metaphor."

More ominously, eminent conspiracy expert Dr. David X. Seaton has argued that Michael Maiello may be connected to foreign influences. Noting that Murdoch is in the pocket of the Israeli Mossad or vice-versa, Seaton asked, "Why has Maiello been placed at dagblog? What's his mission? Who is behind him?" Seaton went on to predict that the American government would collapse in a matter of hours.

Professional wrestler Ric Flair, whose identity Maiello appropriated, expressed his displeasure in a press release, threatening, "I will crush him like a saltine into my chicken soup."

At dagblog, we have a strict policy against Republican trolls, and we are working hard to remove "destor23" from the masthead and ban him for eternity. The details of his contract, however, include a tenure clause that has made it cost prohibitive to remove him at this time. Be assured that we are exploring all legal options to expunge this villain.