Allen studies the way voters in a democracy gather their information and act on what they learn.
She was familiar, of course, with the false rumors of a secret love child that helped sink McCain's White House bid in 2000, and the Swift boat attacks that did the same to Democrat John Kerry in 2004.
But the Obama e-mail was on another plane: The use of the Internet made it possible to launch anonymous attacks that could reach millions of voters in weeks or even days.
Please Ms. Allen. The internet made it possible to launch anonymous attacks since, at least, the 2000 election that could reach millions of voters in weeks or even days. She never acknowledges the lies spewed about Bush.
To listen to her, one would think that before 2008, there were a only a couple hundred thousand internet users and all of a sudden there are millions, dare I say billions?
I began "internetting" on The Well. Then gopher, some prodigy, USENET, CI$, and then "web".
I will tell you a thing which is perfectly TRUE: The academic liberals with Democrats -- have been running the net a long time. Andd their "netting" attacks against Republicans and Conservatives began LOOOOOONG before the proverbial Sagan Billions Upon Billions arrived on the Internet.
So many times, what I'd see on "prehistoric" net, was a two-days-later "NEWS MASS REPORT"; on every wire, etc.
Liberals have been spinning gossip, rumor and innuendo since long before most people were up and running on what we now call the web.
Typical socialists can dish it out; but really don't uphold any notion of "equality".
The Al Gore "inventing the Internet" was really, an inside joke that mostly, only "socialists" understood. We thought it was funny; but they, socialists, nodded soberly when he made the quasi-code assertion: They knew what he meant.
Oh yes, sigh, for the days of a peripheral modem, a dial-up line, no static, and crazy-making syntax in order to "connect.......... NOT!
People across this nation, and world, really seemed to have no idea that the bias towards socialism was run so long ago on what we now call the Internet. And most all the sources for the bias, came from Academic Liberal Elites and their pals in the Media.
And now you might understand what newspapers MIGHT print a correction to a "front page headliner story" on page A22 in some obscure corner. Sometimes, the floating trial ballooning coming out of leftwing intelligentsia was so over-the-top, a very cursory examination of the story, revealed, certainly to the libs, they could pretty much get away with murder, and the MSM would cover for 'em.