Interesting Observation about BlogNetNews
15 05 2008I don’t pay a lot of attention to the rankings at BlogNetNews Missouri but today I wanted to conduct a little experiment based on the post I was making regarding President Bush’s daughter and how out of line it was for someone to use her daughter in another Iraq war rant. That’s why I made it clear in the post that I wasn’t pro-Bush or pro-war. I wanted to A) bring up the point but also B) see if I would solicit a bunch of knee-jerk reactions. My regular commenters made their usual excellent remarks that were anything but knee-jerk.
However…since posting that particular blog entry has had a upturn of 500+ hits with a bulk coming from BlogNetNews Missouri. Strangely, my rating there fell from over 8 to around 4.7 since it was posted. Obviously, some people are deciding to give a 1 rating to a post that thinks the wedding of the daughter of a political leader shouldn’t be exploited for a political motive when the child of the candidate or the candidate is not using that wedding for political gain.
My gut reaction is that some of you hate President Bush so much that you have no qualms going after his children. I also think you would likely have a fit should the same treatment be given to Chelsea Clinton or any of Obama’s children by Republicans.
So I’m putting out the challenge to the anonymous folks at BlogNetNews who voted a one for that. What is your justification for thinking it’s perfectly acceptable to go after Jenna Bush who has done nothing to institute the policies of the Iraq war, continue those policies nor did anything with her wedding to make it a political issue? If you think I’m so horribly wrong then please step up and present your case as to why it’s an acceptable thing to do. Please, though, do address whether you would think it’s acceptable for the same thing to be done by Republicans to Senator Clinton or Senator Obama’s children if the same circumstance should arise.
I really want to see your logic on this.
Bah. Dont sweat it. My blog isnt even listed - even when I did it on a daily basis (when I had time).
Just keep up the good work man.
When I made daily posts about gays earlier this Spring, my ratings went through the roof. But it can be nice to know that someone thinks you are number 1, other than the family.
I tell anyone who mentions it to me, “that if I rank number so and so in the list of the most influential political blogs in the state, the pond is awful shallow, the well ain’t too deep and the turnip truck ain’t half full.”
That is usually good for a laugh.
Who really cares? I’m almost never on there, and when I posted about gun laws for college campuses, I was on the top 10 for politically influential. I never look at my BNN daily rating. In fact, am I even on BNN anymore, now that I almost never post?
Good luck finding out the answer to your question. It could be interesting, I guess.
Yeah, I’m just tired of it being open season on someone’s family just because you disagree with the political position or decisions of someone. If they’re doing political activity, that’s one thing. If they’re just doing their own thing, to me it’s another.