Posted on 08/05/2007 8:24:09 AM PDT by SmithL
It helps that the first thing Clinton did was thank them. In a meeting with about 350 activists before a debate with six other Democratic challengers, Clinton praised the bloggers for helping to create a "modern progressive movement" and for standing up "against a right-wing noise machine."
"I only wish we had this active and fighting a blogosphere 15 years ago," when her husband, Bill, was president, Clinton said. She got a laugh by joking that a faulty microphone was the work of "a vast right-wing conspiracy."
Clinton's appearance Saturday and the relatively small amount of hostile reaction she got underscore two points: Clinton knows that online activists have won a seat at the liberal power table, and the "netroots" are willing to at least listen to the candidate leading most Democratic polls.
Her comments at the debate received a few hisses and some cheers, but she was loudly booed only once - after she said she would continue to accept contributions from Washington lobbyists.
Then again, Clinton has nowhere to go but up with this crowd. She received 9 percent of the vote - narrowly nudging "No Freaking Clue" - at the last straw poll on www.dailykos.com , the 500,000-visitors-a-day blog from which the convention borrows its name. Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., won that straw poll, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was second.
Markos "Kos" Moulitsas, the Berkeley resident who founded the blog, said Saturday it was important for Clinton...
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Hell, Clinton would gain respect in Japan in a room full of rush hour train butt pinchers.
Yet CNN says she got boos - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
"Let me say something a little unexpected: Thank you. Thank you for building a modern, progressive movement in America....."
I've posted this 3 times now. Can you just imagine a YouTube ad with Herself! saying this..contrasted with quotes of the vile Anti-American spew on their site?
Wasn’t Daily Kos FUNDED by the DNC?
The headline is misleading because it sounds like there is some sort of “blogger” consensus about her candidacy. Actually it just represents a sliver of those on the Left spectrum of politics.
Yikes.
ROTFLMAO
Respect and Hillary in the same sentence? Dream on.
SOmeone must have whispered to Hillary that in San Francisco speak, thank you really means F**^ you!
No Freaking Clue? At least they are trying to add some dignity to the proceedings.
And what would they change the other candidate's name (NFC) to? Toby?
Somebody ping The Washington Post, The New York Times, The LA Times, The CNN, The PBS, et al.
What a slap in the face to those loyal left-wing wacko Clinton mouthpieces.
How true
I wonder how many days in advance this article was written.
Why is the word now that Dems own the Internet? Is it that Conservatives cannot stand to post lies all the time?
Oh please. Theyre gonna vote for her no matter what. And only because she has the "D" after her name. Months ago I read so many posts on liberal blogs and message boards, claiming that if Hillary is the nomineee, they wont vote for her. Of course, all it will take is for the DNC and the liberal media to work them up into such hatred against the Republican nominee (whoever he may be), that they will vote for anybody, including Hillary.
What a crock. She was wanting to shut down the Internet when it was criticizing and scrutinizing Bill.
She is everywhere I tell you!!!!!....She is in your face!!!!!!.....If you are for her are against her it does not matter as long as she is in the news!!!!!.... Plus or Minus it does not mean a thing to her as long her name is there everyday 24/7/365...!!!!!!!!!!........
Bloggers don’t gather.
They sit around in their mothers basements wearing pajamas and typing on dimly lit screens.
I seem to recall that I learned this during the Dan Rather Daze.
Exactly! This is a headline in search of supporting facts. Fuzzy headline only needs fuzzy facts.
If you have (okay I didn't read the whole article) say 500 Kos bloggers and Hillary only was favored by, say, 110, and after this convention she now has support from 120, the headline would technically be true but the following story would have to be a variety of journalistic jujitsu to take the most minimal of supporting facts and turn that into a justification of the headline.
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