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A Little Weekend Schadenfreude

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Brian

It’s the weekend, which means most people are spending time with their families rather than reading blogs, but this is too good to wait until Monday:

State Rep. Mike Doogan has revealed in his email newsletter the woman behind the hugely popular, Sarah Palin-bashing blog, Mudflats (themudflats.net). And she doesn’t like it!

Doogan writes: “The identity of the person who writes the liberal Democratic Mudflats blog has been secret since the blog began, protected by the Anchorage Daily News, among others. My own theory about the public process is you can say what you want, as long as you are willing to stand behind it using your real name. So I was interested to learn that the woman who writes the blog is Anchorage resident Jeanne Devon.”

In an interview with Alaska Dispatch, Doogan said that from his point of view, as soon as she began to influence public policy she gave up her right to remain anonymous. “If this was a group of people sitting around the living room, relentlessly attacking public figures, that would be one thing. But she’s been doing that on the Internet–which goes everywhere–for the better part of the year, and she’s allowed to do that anonomously? Where’s the benefit of that to our state or our country?”

As Conservatives4Palin notes, big sites and news outlets are playing — unwittingly, no doubt (har-har!) — a game of “name that party”. Few, if any, are mentioning the fact that these are Democrats kicking each other around in the sandbox.

Go over to the Mudflats site and read the comments (I left one, and I’m sure they’ll be on me and this blog like flies on a roadapple). On full display is the typical outrage you see from the far left (see here for another recent example). Meaning, of course, that they haven’t got a single problem when someone on their side does it to others, just as long as it isn’t done to them. Then they get upset. This is a perfect demonstration of that going on.

Remember, these are people who routinely publish addresses, emails, and phone numbers with the full knowledge (and intention) that their target is harassed, threatened, and intimidated. They publish information on where their targets work, so they can harass their employers, maybe even get them fired. They out gay Republicans (members of Congress, their staff, or others in political positions) and then excuse it because “all” Republicans hate gays (we don’t, but that’s another post) and it’s hypocrisy for a person to be gay AND a Republican. You see where I’m going with this. They’ve done it countless times before, and they’ll do it again.

But when the tables are turned, even by someone in their own party who happens to share a lot of their political beliefs, then — and ONLY then — are they outraged about it. Make no mistake, if Mudflats were a conservative blog and a Democrat did this to them, the left would fap themselves to death over it. Likewise, if it were a liberal blog and they did this to a conservative politician or blogger, they’d have to wipe themselves off with a sponge (I’ll let you picture that on your own). In short, it’s perfectly ok when they do it to one of us or a politician within our Party, but it’s not acceptable when someone does it to them.

For the record, I’m against all forms of “outting” someone. If they want to be/remain anonymous, that is their right, and nobody has any business exposing them and putting them in possible jeopardy. This guy Doogan stepped over the line, there is no doubt about that. But in writing this post, my point is that it’s a line that has been routinely crossed by the left since 2001, and I highly doubt they’re going to respect it in the future, especially if the target is a Republican/conservative.

Filed Under Blogosphere, Democrats, Hypocrites, I Told You So, Idiots and Morons, Liars Exposed, Liberals, Politics
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