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Text messages between friends or co-workers is one thing, but what you post on the various blogs and websites might be more revealing. For example, you can get a pretty clear idea of a person's political persuasion even on Free Republic by reading the postings. We also know now that Facebook can determine your politics as well. I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE ASK PETER STRZOK AND THE OTHERS FOR THE VARIOUS BLOGS AND WEBSITES THAT THEY FREQUENT AND THEIR POSTS POSTED DURING COMPANY TIME. IT MIGHT BE MORE REVEALING THAN THEIR TEXTS MESSAGES. Anyone else have an opinion on this?

Adrienne Ross came under attack by two hate blogs (“Bree Palin” and “Palingates”), because the intent of her metaphorical language in an article pertaining to Levi Johnston was twisted and distorted. In “Levi: When Lying Dogs Won’t Sleep; Updated,” Ms. Ross said, “I believe there’s hope for Levi; I really do. And I hope he grabs a hold of it soon because he’s treading on very thin Alaska ice. Like I said at the start, there’s something to be said for letting sleeping dogs lie. But when a lying dog refuses to put his rabid mouth to sleep, sometimes you...

Network news executives said they are preparing for an unusual Election Night challenge: How to be honest with the audience, and still keep them tuned in, if the race between John McCain and Barack Obama is effectively decided before most Americans have finished dinner. -------------------------------------------------------- Politico has really gone down the toilet in the last month or so..

Dramatic readings from the blogs of the angry left, courtesy of John Gibson and Olbermann Watch. Here's another installment of John Gibson's world-famous Blue Blog Dramatizations. It's hysterical. You'll have to follow the link to see the embedded video unless someone knows how to link it here. I think it should be widely shared.

Howard Kurtz on CNN's "Reliable Sources" [http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/reliable.sources/] Nov. 04 07 9:20 AM: I saw some posting on your 'Going off the bus' blog, it tries very hard to refute the claim that Obama is not experienced [as Hillary is], so, Is it not a [very] liberal blog? Jay Rosen, 'I am sorry, I couldn't understand your question"... It's also a "schtick"-trick in order to buy some time before answering an off guard question.

Grassroots Democrats weighing in on several popular liberal web sites Thursday morning said that they were troubled by reports that al Qaeda's top operational terrorist, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, had been killed in a U.S. air strike. Reacting to the news, one visitor to the Daily Kos complained that using military force to kill Zarqawi "violates everything my America stands for." "It violates the rule of law and invokes the rule of force in what should be a criminal, not a military, matter." Another Daily Kos'er was irked because he thought the news would benefit President Bush: "No doubt Karl...

Jimmy VandeHei is a quick study. In an Op Ed in the Washington Post this Saturday ( Blogs Attack From Left) he has reached the astonishing conclusion that "liberal Web logs" and the Internet have become "a powerful political force" with the Democratic Party these days. Where has Mr. VandeHei been? Here is the laugh line from VandeHei's Op Ed: "Democrats are getting an early glimpse of an intraparty rift that could complicate efforts to win back the White House: fiery liberals raising their voices on Web sites and in interest groups vs. elected officials trying to appeal to a...

NOTHING BRINGS OUT RACIST slurs like an ambitious black man who doesn't know his ''place." So when Maryland's lieutenant governor, Michael Steele, announced his candidacy for the US Senate recently, the bigots reared up. On one popular website, The News Blog, Steele's picture was grotesquely doctored, making him look like a minstrel-show caricature. ''I's Simple Sambo and I's Running for the Big House," read the insulting headline accompanying the picture. This wasn't some white supremacist slime from the right-wing fringe. The News Blog is a liberal site, and the reason for its racist attack on Steele, a former chairman of...

Suppose a Democratic strategist wrote an open letter to colleagues and clients analyzing this week’s election returns. “Republicans have very little to cheer about this election,” he said with some satisfaction. “But off-year elections are rarely harbingers of future performance. Democrats actually did quite well in 2003, to little effect in 2004.” Suppose further that the Democratic strategist signed his name to the letter and distributed it widely.And then suppose one more thing: that the Democratic strategist had not actually written those words but had lifted them wholesale from a liberal blog. (In fact, those words do come from such...