You’re right, Jim. It was MadIvan’s site, and howlin had nothing to do with starting it. It blew apart four times that I know about, because I was there for the first three. The first was the banning of Rudy-bots....LOL. Ivan endorsed McCain and picked Sarah Palin long before pundits or McCain. I know of three spin-off’s still remaining, but I don’t think the Elephant Graveyard is one of the three, unless it’s the name of howlin’s private site. I don’t recall the names of the other two, but pookie18 links his cartoons to both.
While I was there, bashing or even posting negative about you was not permitted, and that rule was strictly enforced by Ivan himself.
“IF” memory serves, WA kept changing its format, crashing and eventually just vanished.
Ok, well I don’t know all the details because I didn’t spend any time there. Didn’t even know that MadIvan dropped Rudy and went with Palin. I can see him going for McCain, but if he supported Palin in her own right that really surprises me. You never know. Thanks.
[“IF” memory serves, WA kept changing its format, crashing and eventually just vanished.]
Google search can turn up a lot about what happened to WideAwakes, it’s been posted on numerous sites. It seems that a group of unhappy people connived and hacked into Mad Ivan’s site in the middle of one night. They supposedly locked him out, gave out private info on other members and allowed banned members back in, etc. He learned of it the next morning. That’s pretty much the ‘established’ story now.
It wasn’t long before he shut it down and a number of other sites spun off of it. Some of them might have been; The GOP Briefing Room, GOPachy, TheFort2.com
Elephants Graveyard, TheRightReasons.net.
I’ll explain why I know much of this; I’ve written many times before on the forum that I lost much hearing in my early 30’s, it made a big change in my life causing me to avoid groups and gatherings of people because I couldn’t ‘understand’ what was said. People can’t ‘see’ hearing loss and wonder why you don’t answer or ‘ignore’ them. It was daunting...for sure.
About 12 years ago my son gave me a laptop computer and it opened up my world and I’m on my third computer now! I soon discovered Free Republic from the Drudge site and have been here since. Because I spend so much time on the computer I browse the web every day, reading, reading, reading........and I learn a ‘lot’, - after I’ve seen it verified on numerous sites. Trust but Verify should sometimes be Distrust and Verify, lol.