[LostInBayport]

I honestly can’t understand why commentators hate this campaign. The fact that we’re talking about it means it was successful in what it set out to accomplish. Criticize the Mooch for her ridiculous, insincere photo-op, but there’s not reason to dismiss the campaign.

The hashtag campaign falls in same bin as candlelight vigils, a pointless exercise that serves no other purpose then to make attendees feel that they are "doing something" about a problem with the added benefit of doing it in as easy a manner as possible without the complication of actual results. When it becomes policy (like when that state department twitterette implied that Vladimir Putin would bow to the power of hashtag and leave Ukraine), it shows how far up the creek and away from a paddle we are.

I know the reply: the hashtag deal increases awareness of the issue. So it gets "retweeted" or whatever by millions of twitterpeople...and then what?

[demshateGod]

Then the president of the US sends some people to negotiate their release. When they’re released 0 will say, “Michelle was telling me I needed to do something. Rush Limbaugh told me to do nothing.”