Monday, November 08, 2004

Blogging Rocked This Election.

Tech Central gives us the following tidbits regarding blogs and this election:

Daily Kos raised more than $500,000 to assist the campaigns of fifteen candidates. None were elected."

You know, that's has got to hurt. Especially since they are all so dang smart.

As the Grand Forks Herald
observed in the Daschle-Thune race, which really was BIG and the dems are trying so hard to ignore:

"This little-noticed development deserves a lot more attention. The Daschle-Thune race differed from previous South Dakota Senate races in this way: Conservative Web logs gave South Dakota voters access to news like never before.
"Take a look and you'll see what we mean: Web sites such as Daschle vs. Thune and a few others chipped away at Daschle's image day after day."

You S. Dakota bloggers, think about it....You were a huge part of finally getting rid of the biggest hypocrite of all time, the leader of the democratics in congress.....DASCHLE!!!!!! You ended a 26 year reign of moonbattiness!!!!! Do you have any idea how many points in heaven you are gonna get for that???? I mean you have achieved your purpose in life ....... Now go find an island and sunbathe, your place within the pearly gates is secure....;-)

Some of these heaven bound bloggers are...

http://daschlevthune.typepad.com/daschle_v_thune/

http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/

http://sibbyonline.blogs.com/

The biggest false story of the msm was the Dan Rather memogate story, of course. Being a new blogger, I watched in amazement as
Little Green Footballs and Power Line and Instapundit debunked the story in less than a day and Drudge provided communications with the mainstream media.

A lesser known, but extremely important story was about
this blogger who debunked a bogus Associate Press report regarding booing of President Clinton when his heart surgery was announced at a Bush rally. (Complete with audio featuring no boos). Things that used to be ignored, or spun by the news are now available with the 'rest of the story' online with links and sometimes visual proof. Proof that was easily attainable by the msm, but didn't quite fit their story.
Anyway you look at it, it is a boon for democracy. It is certainly a boon for the truth. It seemed pretty clear to me that stories that really did have no basis in truth quickly died, even online.

The bottom line here is that the left leaning media that proclaims itself mainstream can no longer have it's stories go unchallenged. Who knows how this election might have turned out if the Rather's memo story had been accepted at face value or if the Swift boat guys had been ignored, which they certainly would have if it had not been for the bloggers, especially the milblogs. Who knows if any of us would have heard all the good news out of Afghanistan and Iraq if not for the soldiers blogging from the actual places???

This is the Blogging Revolution, and Che Guevera aint got nothing on us.