While she never said it out loud during her farewell press conference, it certainly wouldn't have been a shock if Palin had directed a Nixonian parting phrase toward Alaska bloggers: "You're not going to have Palin to kick around anymore."
I'm not suggesting that homegrown bloggers alone were responsible for Palin's "No más" moment, but there's no question that the online activists played a key role. That with their shit-kicking brand of frontier citizen journalism, they drove Palin to distraction and changed the way voters nationwide thought about the governor.
So if conservative bloggers get credit for driving Dan Rather out of the anchor chair in 2004 following their Memogate campaign-season tale, then the band of scrappy liberal bloggers in Alaska ought to be allowed to bask in a bit of glory, because they made their own history when Palin announced her exit.
Brandishing dogged reporting skills and wonderfully insightful, entertaining writing, Alaska bloggers turned the 49th state (and a very, very red one, at that) into a hotbed for plugged-in citizen journalism and showed the rest of the liberal blogosphere, as well as media elites, what's possible when passion and creativity are harnessed online.
Just ask Palin.
Read the entire Media Matters column here.
When it became known by the bloggers that friends of Palins were 'whispering' behind her back, bloggers took to the blogs..........especially www.adn.com were they revealed her sad, pathetic life of personal destruction and gamesmanship by her 'militia'.
Thankyou bloggers, not much of what was mentioned on the blogs in the spring before her pick has been revealed, but adn.com and bloggers were aware and stated the FBI was monitoring the blogs in Alaska for information concerning Palin. This is when, once again, people were somewhat intimidated to post anything again, but their anger is still there.
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The bloggers were great. Before she was even elected as vp candidate, bloggers had revealed her affairs, Todd's affair's, the past underhanded crap they did, and who they were involved with. They were invited to the WH 4 x in past two years before last summer. Cheney and his energy plan, remember. Ted Stevens indictment, remember....................... Cheney ordered by court not to destroy any memos, emails etc., that year, remember???? Thankyou Alaska. Palin exposed so much for the liberals.
What they did was to abuse an ethics law that Palin helped to pass. Then they tried to bankrupt her family, more than likely at the behest of the White House. We're not exactly stupid in the Republican Party; we know how these things work in Soros World. Now she's fairly close to half a million dollars in debt because the clowns in the Democratic Party decided to play wrecker with someone's life. Oh, she'll be fine now. She'll pay it off. The point was, this shouldn't have happened in the first place. All you people did was poison the well.
Unfortunately for you folks, you've taught us that two can play the Saul Alinksy game.
The upshot? She's now free to help Republican candidates during midterm elections. Had you left her alone. Had you not been too clever by half, she would have stayed in Alaska and kept her nose to the grindstone like she did in 2006-2008. She wouldn't be free to come down to the Lower 48 and help our team out.
Now she is, without regard to the Alaska Ethics Statutes. She'll make gobs of money and she'll help elect gobs of Republicans. Lots of Blue Dogs in marginal Bush 2004 districts will probably go down because you clowns were too fanatical to leave her alone.
"For want of a nail...."
Go ahead. Pat yourselves on the back for being stupid.
Didn't think so........