What Happens When Progressive Bloggers Get What They Wish For?

I am loving this.  Really.

Before we get started, I cannot help but flash back to the bad-old days when the progressives in the Greensboro blogosphere were fawning and drooling all over Johnny Reid Edwards.  It was a "grass-roots" online effort.  North Carolina was gonna be on the map. 

Greensboro's well-established-deep-blue bloggers, in particular, were gonna be CONTENDERS!  Visions of strategy-sessions in the White House and sleeping in the Lincoln were clearly dancing through their heads.  Keyboards regularly had to go into the shop to remove the drool.

Well, they got their national campaign.  And we know how that turned out.  Their (first) guy is gonna be an Internet porn star sooner or later.  Two Americas.  Two families.  All that jazz.

Flash forward four years.  Obama is in the White House . . . after his own "grass-roots" effort - where much of the grunt work was done online.  A new era of transparency and accountability was on the horizon. 

Bunnies hopped.  Does danced.  Butterflies and unicorns soared.

As it turns out, now that he's in the White House, Obama doesn't really care for bloggers very much unless he can use them to his own ends.  And the MSM has pretty much soured on them/us too ("citizen journalism" having been a huge bust for the N&R). 

The ignorant masses didn't turn out to be so ignorant - or easy to manipulate. 

As bloggers now converge right and out west, and North Carolina tests the chilly waters, a couple of CNN reporters (CNN being one of the more liberal-leaning news outlets) have suggested that the Sherrod mess may very well be the catalyst for some changes that I daresay a huge majority of the progressive blogging community (a lot of them fairly liberal with flinging the nasties) will not like.

Sherrod has "power" now, you see . . .

. . . and all anonymous bloggers are EVIL.

And Sayeth CNN:  "Something's going to have to be done legally."

Now, since I've always signed my name, and I stand by my posts/opinions (you can't say I didn't earn them), and I've had issues all along with people maliciously smearing/libeling what Randolph Hospital left of my good name for sport (often anonymously), I'm kinda enjoying the irony here.

The erosion of liberty always begins with a good intention.  Be careful who you wish for Mr. Cone, Mr. Smith-Jr., Ms. Polinsky, et al.

You just might get it.



That one was for my friend, Bubba;)