Comments on: Survey: The Role Of Smaller Bloggers In Rathergate

By: Who Tends the Fires

Who Tends the Fires — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:22:47 +0000

All the “NEWS” that fits, we spew…
The Word for the Day is: “Loser loser LOSER!!!” [Works best if you hear it in a Peanut voice] “All the while, in the words of admirer Sharon Moeller, 40, a student and consultant in Apache Junction, Kerry must ‘keep…

By: randy

randy — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:19:34 +0000

I used “Political Blog For The Politically Incorrect”
Those in the know, know that William Webb.org is in the forefront of the latest breaking stories.
Fair and accurate!
Randy

By: Elsie Sommerfeld

Elsie Sommerfeld — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:42:05 +0000

Good morning to you all. I am afraid I didn’t even know what a blogger was. I DO NOW and I thank you all for your dedication to ferreting the information that was needed to put “Rathergate” in perspective. It is also personally gratifying to know that their are others “out there” who have similar thoughts. I was beginning to wonder if I was on a different planet or something! Seriously, I do want to thank you and wish you good luck in your endeavours.

By: David

David — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:44:47 +0000

I am a reader and a commenter. For the most part I think the small blogs and the commenters were mostly cheerleaders, questioners and humorists. My daughter and I both rewrote Shakespeare for humour over at Donald Sensing. I commented a little at lgf and powerline with specific questions on the minutia.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:58:33 +0000

I followed PowerLine having found it just a few days before 60 Minutes aired. I felt like I had an inside “scoop” to what was really going on thanks to the blogs.

By: Adjoran

Adjoran — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:13:57 +0000

I wasn’t blogging at the time.

I first heard about the questions about the documents through a link to the SwiftVets message board posted on the NoPC {libertarian} message board around 8 am the day after the broadcast. From there I quickly found Powerline, who had jumped on the story with both feet.

From there, I also followed it at the KerrySpot on NRO, Hewitt, Polipundit, Allah, and LGF.

My only potential contribution to the story was a theory on David Van Os – Burkett’s former attorney, Texas Democratic heavyweight and candidate for the TSC – and his possible involvement beyond typical lawyerly duties. I tipped PoliPundit on that one. I’m not claiming I was the first to think of it, but I hadn’t seen any earlier references.

That may seem a minor point, and is probably meaningless, but the importance at this stage in the story of finding out WHO actually created the fakes cannot be understated. I wish that story was being pursued with the same vigor as exposing the fakes as fakes.

By: Janelle

Janelle — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:02:30 +0000

Good Evening,

I read several blogs that have already been mentioned.
Bill INDC Journal
Michelle Malkin
Little Green Footballs
Donald Sensing, quite a bit of One Hand Clapping
Dean Esmay
Stayed mostly with Michelle

By: Old Patriot

Old Patriot — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:54:19 +0000

I didn’t have a blog at the time (since remedied), but did get a mention on PowerLine for some comments I made in an email to them. I also found a wider range of blogs to follow after clicking on links there, at LGF, at Captain’s Quarters, and on the NRO Corner – including yours! Having 26 years’ experience in Air Force military correspondence made it easy to spot the inconsistencies in military abbreviations and terminology, but no one dug deeper than the Big Five that worried this thing to death – LGF, PowerLine, Captain’s Quarters, INDC, and Allah. My list of sites to visit daily grew to three times its previous size because of RatherGate, so I should be thankful…

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:39:21 +0000

I helped some with the flow of mockery, if not actual information. As far as heavy lifting goes, Rathergate.com has been my main stop. Ace has had some good stuff too. It’s all happened to quickly, and everybody’s linking to each other so furiously, it’s tough to remember where you heard what.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:30:59 +0000

I followed the CBS affair, mostly by reading the obvious blogs. On my blog, I did 3 related posts…on 9/15, a post focusing on CBS’ probable motivations for their behavior, including matters of ego as well as bias. Then, on 9/19, a post relating the tension between blogs and MSM to some general concepts of business strategy (challengers vs incumbents). Another on the challengers vs incombents issues today.

Probably more than you really wanted to know….

By: Jeanne Schmelzer

Jeanne Schmelzer — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:22:50 +0000

I went to RedState.Org and then later RatherGate

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:13:00 +0000

Powerline and RatherBiased.com were the two main blogs I checked out on this. Didn’t even bother to do any ‘independent’ research on this myself because they really had it covered.

Vive la blogosphere!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:00:36 +0000

I get all my RaTHer gate info from LGF, Drudge, and The Puppy Blender.

By: PatriotsChick

PatriotsChick — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:58:20 +0000

LaShawn:

I checked your blog, in addition to Andrew Sullivan, Mickey Kaus, Instapundit, Martinipundit, Vodkapundit and Michelle Malkin.

Hope that helps!

By: Jon Henke

Jon Henke — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:07:16 +0000

We–that is, the three bloggers at QandO–followed it pretty closely. I have to admit, I was pretty skeptical of the initial forgery claims, and I stayed on the fence for quite awhile.

Our main “contribution”, I think, qando.net/archives/004070.htm was this post, which was linked in Dr Joseph Newcomer’s pretty flounder.com/bush2.htm definitive analysis.

He (Newcomer) even got a Drudge link, and I was curious to find out what second-hand Drudge traffic was like, but it only lasted a few moments, before Drudge pulled it. Presumably, it fried–or threatened to fry–the guys server. C’est la vie.