On Thursday morning conservative political operative and media owner Dan Proft responded to my recent Bleader post criticizing his string of community newspapers with this blistering tweet:

A blog devoted to “Touhey’s of the World” nails Ellsworth’s character. He’s a “master schemer and manipulator” who “represents the stifling, decadent forces of Communalism and Socialism.” The blog recalls a telling confrontation from The Fountainhead between Toohey and Rand’s hero, the visionary architect Howard Roark.

      Roark: “But I don’t think of you.”