Columbus blogger’s jailing over ‘Shrek porn’ an abuse of power

We can debate all day if what the man behind The Rooster blog does is real journalism.

That’s a very big dispute.

What isn’t in dispute is that Columbus’ D.J. Byrnes? that’s The Rooster ? has a knack of crawling under the skin of the politicians he writes about and creating little burrows they can’t excavate, though they scratch and scratch.

The pimple came to the surface this week when Byrnes was jailed for 23 hours for allegedly sending sexually explicit cartoon porn to a state lawmaker. You read that right, explicit cartoon porn.

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