Posted on 03/20/2012 10:52:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In addition to regularly contributing to NRO’s excellent Home Front blog, my wife Nancy is the editor of the Patheos Faith and Family portal, a multi-faith website that thoughtfully explores, well, faith and family. Last week she added a young, single-mother blogger to the site, a person who could reach a wide audience and was experiencing life as a mother in the glare of unusually harsh publicity: Bristol Palin.
....Over the weekend, Bristol wrote a post that asked a simple question: “Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?” Noting that President Obama had called Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh’s now-famous insult, Bristol reminds the President that she’s been the target of much worse:
.............[SNIP]..............
Then Sarah Palin tweeted.
Patheos’s server promptly melted down. One of the most-trafficked religious sites on the web, its server still spontaneously combusted. A small mushroom cloud was spotted over the server farm. Eleven additional servers had to be brought online to handle the traffic flow, and by the end of the day, 8,000 shares had turned into more than 85,000 (update: 100,000), and the story of Bristol’s challenge to the President had been reported not just in the political and mainstream media but also in the Hollywood media as well. Thousands of tweets, and tens of thousands more Facebook shares from Fox to the Huffington Post to the Hollywood Reporter took the post well beyond the familiar and comfortable enclaves of the conservative blogosphere.
That, in essence, is Palin power. No other name in the conservative movement can instantly break through the wall of separation between conservative punditry and popular culture. Bristol powerfully and concisely told the truth — and reached an audience so large it resides only in most pundits’ wildest dreams.
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CW, just wow!
I infrequently watch TV coverage and had not entirely caught up on this Bristol story!
Because you posted it, I read it out the gate! GREAT story.
I am also now encouraged to know that Bristol has come into her own in such a profoundly good way.
Thank you for posting.
Of interest...
I have the biggest grin on my face right now reading this. :-)
The message is going out furhter and wider than even we Freepers may suspect. Go Bristol and go Sarah.
Twitter is incredible. Word gets out like a lightening strike.
May God guide our course.
Tatt
I was follower #75 when it went live in February 2009.
Has this information been posted on Facebook?
there is a movie comming out which is a “comedy” and one of the central characters is a idiotic sarah palin characature.
it is call iron sky and is about wwii nazis that hid on the moon.
there is a movie comming out which is a “comedy” and one of the central characters is a idiotic sarah palin characature.
it is call iron sky and is about wwii nazis that hid on the moon.
Dear Lord, we needed for Sarah to run. I have to trust her judgment and I strongly suspect the impact on Willow and Piper was at the forefront of that decision. And this article reinforces the underpinnings of that concern Sarah might have. Would her children be treated with kid gloves were she a candidate? Would they get articles scrubbed from the media? Of course not.
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