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[Amused and Bewildered]

Didn't want to post this in the public area but I get so annoyed when this pops up.  It's happened before and just now again on AKM's "Second Troopergate" blog entry.

Sarah Palin and the Abuse of Blog Power

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http://douggeivett.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/abuse-of-blog-power-sarah-palin-blasted-by-the-rumor-mill/]

Anti-Palin bloggers are pumping out bile with the unrelenting force of an Alaskan gusher. These people are using their blog-power to influence voters. Nothing wrong with that. But fomenting discontent on the basis of rumor alone is an abuse of that power.

We need an example. One blogger who illustrates this obsessive, vicious lampooning of Sarah Palin (and John McCain) is “AKMuckraker” at Mudflats. On one post she insinuates that Sarah Palin is John McCain’s latest “trophy girl.” In another, she rolls out all the labels she can contrive—”Trooper-Gate,” “Baby-Gate,” “Bridge-Gate,” and “Veep-Gate”—and wails to the world that the GOP campaign will come unraveled in the days left before the election. Many who chime in with comments at her posts exhibit an astonishing willingness to believe on the basis of ethereal fumes.

One of the things that attracted me to AKM's blog in the first place was the validity of the information!  Every single thing checked out.

[InJuneau]

Ooo, bad trollies!  Hope he gets flung!

[Deuce2 AL Renegade]

As a "Governor" the sentence for such a dote scoundrel shall be as follows.
Into the moat with him. If he doth swim to safety, he shall be free. That is my
decree, therefore be it law.

Deuce

[Forty Watt]

Didn't want to post this in the public area but I get so annoyed when this pops up.  It's happened before and just now again on AKM's "Second Troopergate" blog entry.

Sarah Palin and the Abuse of Blog Power

Code:

http://douggeivett.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/abuse-of-blog-power-sarah-palin-blasted-by-the-rumor-mill/]

It is annoying, but when you consider who the blogger is it becomes obvious why he defends SP so vehemently.  He says in one response that he's a philosopher and so he is--a Professor of Philosophy in the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, which is an evangelical Christian school of the far right variety. 

I've actually found the whole thing wierdly illuminating.  Did you know there was such a thing as the Evangelical Philosophical Society?  The things you find out through Mudflats.