Saying that Belinda K. Conaway’s $21 million libel suit was intended to silence him, blogger Adam Meister yesterday treated news that she has withdrawn the suit as carte blanche to once again speak – loudly, and harshly.

“Belinda Conaway is a joke,” Meister said, over the phone, after the suit was dismissed in Baltimore City Circuit Court at the request of  Conaway’s attorney, Thomas J. Maronick Jr.

Meister said that, when Conaway’s father, Circuit Court Clerk Frank M. Conaway Sr., went up after yesterday’s court proceedings to shake his hand, “I wouldn’t shake it.”

“I don’t touch slime,” he said. “I don’t touch pigs.”

Asked about the tenor of his remarks, he said it was warranted because Conaway’s suit against him was “cruel” and “low.”

“She talked about ’emotional distress’” in her suit, Meister said. “What about what I suffered?”

Conaway had alleged that Meister libeled and defamed her in a column published in March in The Baltimore Examiner in which he noted that she signed documents indicating that her primary residence was a house in Baltimore County.

Maronick reiterated in court yesterday what he has said to The Brew and other media – that his client does reside in Baltimore City and signed those documents by mistake.

Why did they file the suit? It wasn’t until now that they had a chance to examine the key document, Maronick said in court, which, according to Laura Vozzella’s account in the Sun, prompted Meister in the courtroom to mouth witheringly “it’s on the Internet.”

Meister made clear that he will seek to avenge himself by working for one of Conaway’s challengers in the 7th District City Council race, Nick Mosby.

“A lot of people think she is a jerk for suing me,” Meister said. “Somebody like me who’s going to be in the 7th district forever. I mean this is where I live.”