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To: Sully- who wrote (7690)	2/11/2005 6:31:05 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

The DailyKos/Atrios Lynch Mob LGF INDC Journal has a post on the Atrios/Daily Kos internet lynching of Jeff Gannon. I must be getting jaded, because I find this despicable behavior from lefty bloggers to be completely unsurprising. This is just a particularly vile case of the same below-the-belt tactics these people use all the time. <<< There are more than a few angles to this story, but that’s one of the most shocking - these bloggers and a US Congresswoman(!) began immediately throwing out accusations of prostitution based on the titles of domain names that Gannon either registered for himself or as an employee of a software company. This is disturbingly nasty and irresponsible mob behavior, not atypical coming from some of the sites involved in breaking the story. Atrios is the one that focused on the more lurid and irrelevant angles of the story. And Kos is more than fine with it, laying out the strategy to Howard Kurtz: ((( Asked if digging into someone’s personal and business activities was proper retaliation, Moulitsas said: “If that’s what it took to really bring attention to him, it’s one of those unfortunate facts of reality in the way we operate today. It’s sex that really draws attention to these things.” ))) I bet that things like medical records, salacious family disputes or a history of child abuse might draw attention to people that you don’t like as well. Where does one draw the line, Kos? Anything for the game of politics. It’s appalling and it could backfire - if the serious charges don’t pan out (and I don’t think that they will at this point), one of the stories is that a lynch-mob comprised of the most popular leftie bloggers partially took down a man they disliked by outing him and leveling libelous accusations based on thin evidence. The media looks for the strongest narrative in cases that have many tiers, and in this case the sex angle will dominate the potentially more relevant angles. If the speculation about prostitution is untrue and I were Gannon, I’d have a lawyer on retainer by now. >>> littlegreenfootballs.com

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