Today the Bangor Daily News ran an article about the Allen-Collins race, and especially the influence of the internet and blogs in the race. The article mentions Lance Dutson, Collins' Internet Campaign Manager, and Richard Nixon in the same thought, which I got quite the kick out of. Here's an excerpt from the Bangor Daily News.
"Blog readership is on a massive incline," Dutson said. The biggest demographic of blog readers is 40-to-50-year-old males, he said.
But as Richard Nixon famously learned by failing to appreciate that he looked like a shady used-car salesman on TV, the Internet is also fraught with potential pitfalls for candidates.
Dutson, in one of his postings, referred to the liberal opinion site firedoglake.com as a "foul-mouthed fem-blog." That drew the ire of the left, who called for Collins to fire Dutson for using what they saw as sexist terms. Dutson counters by pointing to the Chicago Tribune’s feminist blog, which the newspaper labels a "fem-blog."
Pretty weak justification if you ask me. But wait...is there really a feminist blog on the Chicago Tribune webpage? a pretty weak justification.
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