Conservative C-SPAN Revenge Ranter Vents Further On Blog

Todd Seavey
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Earlier this week, Todd Seavey accomplished quite a feat. He made a C-SPAN clip go viral. The nerdy, bizarre revenge rant he unleashed on his ex-girlfriend, Helen Rittelmeyer, as she sat next to him at a panel for the “voices of the next conservative generation,” cut across political views, and thousands delighted in watching this spurned lover vent, libertarian-style. But he wasn’t finished. On Tuesday, Seavey took to his blog to react to the clip’s popularity, and share his views on the incident. He called his actions a “public intervention.”

In a post titled “Welcome, New Readers! (About That C-SPAN2 Helen Rittelmeyer Thing…),” Seavey wrote: “Reform, Helen. Reform. Make this the most positive turning point in your life and everybody wins.” (The blog has now been made invite only, but you can see a Google cache of the post here.)

In the post, Seavey reveals that Rittelmeyer dumped him just three days before the panel last weekend, and he says he wants to make things clear: “I was not (as a few of the less-careful online observers have implied) criticizing her for not dating me (a choice some 3.5 billion women make every day, after all).”

Rather, in my comments, I alluded to the fact that Helen’s ostensibly Catholic-conservative philosophy is actually an ironically-veiled, far darker philosophy, a sort of Nietzschean valorization of cruelty for the sake of cruelty that even Nietzsche would not endorse.

Don’t worry, dude, there are plenty of Nietzschean fish in the sea. Seavey said he had many examples of Rittelmeyer’s “dark thinking is paralleled by dark behavior” but he wouldn’t go reveal them “even though I know I risk being thought by many to be merely griping about an ex for light and transient causes.”

Some think me a bully, but in fact I have shown incredible restraint (and a generous willingness to take a small reputational hit by appearing cruel myself), engaging in a sort of public intervention in perhaps the only way open to me that is likely to alter Helen’s behavior. Nothing would make me happier than to learn that it had been effective, that she was thankful for it, and that her life had been transformed for the better on multiple fronts

See, he did her a favor. It’s all good. We can only imagine what Seavey would consider a bad break up.

Watch the original clip:

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