The "grassroots" backlash that followed -- orchestrated, in part, by the people at DemocraticUnderground, who mobilized their large and largely disgruntled membership -- saw the President savaged in the press and at box office (Farenheit 9/11).
The site is a venerable and storied Web forum for American Socialists.
So it is that, day in and day out, DUmmies attempt to outdo each other in posting the most pungent, juvenile reactions to stories.
It's a hateful place that, if the world was working as it should, would be relegated to the Internet's endless fringes, where conspiracy theorists and pyramid-power believers roam the wasteland. But what's interesting about DemocraticUnderground is that, despite having attracted a crowd of the most paranoid, xenophobic and reactionary characters the political landscape has to offer, it continues to find itself in the news.
But if DemocraticUnderground has a virtue, it's that, unlike other pressure groups, it's transparent: You can see the cogs turning, the anger mounting, the members joining the half-baked me-too condemnations that will surface on tomorrow's news agenda.
See? I'm such a nice Conservative, I corrected his article for him, free of charge.
Good job! I was doing that mentally when I read the article.