Not Your Sweetie

americanstranger (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-04-04 06:45 PM
Response to Reply #39
40. The Short version:
Daily Kos posted about mercenaries killed in Fallujah last week. He ended his post with the phrase 'Screw 'em.'
Wingers took offense. a couple of rightard blogs started a targeted email campaign to get ads pulled off of Kos' site.
Kerry relented and pulled ads and de-linked the site - despite Kos being one of the heaviest hitters on the web in terms of raising campaign cash for Kerry.
Which I think is about the stupidest thing they could have done. They've set a precedent that if the Right whines loudly enough, they'll cut whoever they're whining about loose.
Hope this explains some of it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1342343&mesg_id=1343320&page=