Posted on 03/28/2009 3:19:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An Alaskan state legislator revealed in his constituent e-newsletter Friday the identity of an anonymous local blogger who was made famous by her criticisms of Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign season.
Mudflats blogger "Alaska Muckraker" (AKM) rose to blogger fame almost instantaneously when Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin was tapped to be John McCain's running mate, and the then anonymous blogger wrote "What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan's Perspective" under the penname AKM. Little was known about Palin in the lower 48, and AKM provided a much-needed window throughout the campaign season into Palin's performance as governor of Alaska from a progressive viewpoint.
AKM earned the ire of Alaska Representative Mike Doogan (LD-25) of Anchorage (who happens to be a writer by trade) when AKM wrote a blog post about a rude email that Doogan sent to his constituents. He had saved up all of the emails from constituents on the Troopergate issue, and in December he responded to all of them at once, CC'ing a list of about thirty perfect strangers together in one email, telling them,
Are you people nuts? You send me -- and everybody else in the legislature, from the looks of things -- Spam and then lecture me on email etiquette -- as if there were such a thing? Here's an etiquette suggestion: Abandon your phony names, do your own thinking and don't expect everybody to share your obsessions. [Yes, that is the actual response that Doogan sent to his constituents.]
AKM posted Doogan's own words on the Mudflats blog along with an enumerated list of the basic rules of netiquette.
In the same email, just above the entry broadcasting AKM's identity, Doogan (who was a print columnist for 14 years and currently writes mystery novels) inveighed against the Alaska Press Club giving an award to the author of a widely read email and then fulminated against newspapers cutting the jobs of real newsmen. Then, with one short paragraph, Doogan brought AKM and her family into the public eye,
Amazing when the left gets a taste of their own medicine.
while screaming Violation of Separation of Church and State if Christians do even the tiniest bit of moralizing.
New York Times v Sullivan
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=376&invol=254
Why else would the chicken hide? She is guilty of malice because her whole “INTENT” was to defame Governor Palin and her family, whether factual or not. Governor Palin could sue her and win.
Most of all, the woman is a coward and made up everything as she went along. There is not any doubt she is a true “OBAMANITE”.
On a personal note, Governor Palin and others should sue these anti-American guttersnipes. After a few million dollar settlements, many of them would stop blogging and starting malicious lies defaming others they do not agree with without solid proof before posting anything about another they do not agree with Ideologically.
I hope if they are up to no good like this that they are very worried about them being outed. There is no anoymous identities online, if someone wants to know who you are and you are actively using your own ISP number you are not anoymous.Hopefully Sarah will be able to sue her for slander and get back some of that $500,000 she’s had to spend defending herself. Anchorage isn’t that big of a town and this person’s buisness life is over.
Hopefully Sarah will be able to sue her for slander...”
I think the only way she could do that is to be out of office. Then the media hyenas would make sure Sarah’s political life was over.
I understand.
thank you very much.
:)
Throw in that they're closed minded bigots and I'm in total agreement with you.
The internet is not anonymouse unless you know how to hack into wireless networks and know when to move onto the next one to hack.
“HufPo, KOS and DU is having a cow over this! LOL!”
Yes, they are!!
And check out the front-page rant from a lib moron on KOS, who believes she has a RIGHT to remain anonymous, and that exposing this woman is a violation of her first amendment rights!!
Good info, thanks.
Mike Doogans site and his comments on this situation:
http://www.akdemocrats.org/doogan/032709_2_doogan_in_juneau.htm
LOL, I am glad yo posted this.... I was out surfing for this exact info earlier.
Yes, the blogger’s name is Jeanne Devon. There is so much whining and crying on the part of the liberals, you’d think Jerry Garcia died (again) about this. They are brokenhearted that their “leader” was outed.
Where was the outrage when Gov. Palin’s e-mail was hacked?
I must say I am proud of the Dem. Alaska Rep., Doogan, for outing this rabid &%^#$@?
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