[kristinn]

This original to Free Republic article got worldwide play in December 2010:

Media Creates New Palin Scandal! Sarah Accused of Bringing Hairdresser on Haiti Trip

AP photo and caption preserved at Newsbusters.

[Lazamataz]

You are another of the Rock Star posters here. Please be a regular contributor!!!

[onyx]

Our own aphid was the first to spot Bristol as her mother's hairdresser.

[darrellmaurina]

Kristinn, I read your link last night to the “Palin hairdresser” controversy (i.e., her daughter) and ended up spending several hours reading the articles, trackbacks, Twitter links, and related articles on this controversy.

I'm pretty sure I gave this a cursory read back in 2010 — if I remember right, one of our own local readers even posted a crosslink on the Pulaski County Web to your Free Republic coverage on the Palin hairdresser situation since he's been a Free Republic fan for many years — but I didn't realize at the time how critical Free Republic was in exposing this ridiculous situation.

Great work!

“Crowdsourcing” is not a panacea, but getting hundreds of angry activists to catch and call attention to stuff like this can quite effectively expose and embarrass people who need to be called on the carpet.

If Free Republic's new section can lead to this sort of thing being done more often, and localized to state-level and congressional races, it would be fantastic.