One of my daily stops has become The Mudflats where I find a nice dose of political reality from the far north. Yesterday was a sad one because it seems that one of the duly elected Democrats up there has taken it upon himself to “out” the author of that blog.
Why did he do it? It was her choice to remain anonymous and she probably had a very good reason for doing so. He chose to use public time and money to hunt her down and make her public.
Blogs are not journalism. She was not writing for pay but to express her opinion about the state of Alaskan politics. Her blog, her rules.
So today I’m reading about the aftermath and came across another blog which is going into my list of faves. And this is where I have to ask where all this hate and vitriol and just pure fugliness is coming from.
Go on. I dare you. Go to this blog and read the hate mail this woman has received and tell me this is America. I’ll wait.
The vileness of those people makes me ill. As angry as I was over the last 8 years during the Bush (mis)administration I NEVER resorted to that kind of verbal violence. I wrote letters to the editor of the Casper Star Tribune and got bashed almost as badly as Diva has been. Being print, of course the CST wouldn’t print foul language but I took some major personal hits.
What is it with the personal attacks? You don’t like someone’s opinion why do you feel the need to attack them?
You tell me … what has happened to us that we have sunk so low.
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