Mini-whine: Well, I was out last nite acquiring another interview and will start processing that video tonite. And I just completed an audio interview a little bit ago this evening, so I have that to do. The whine? Steve beat me to the post I wanted to do on the Bristol Palin post (good on him!) – but I found it via another source: The Corner and David French, whose wife runs the Patheos website Steve quoted. David relays a bit of the back story – showing the power of social media as well as the Palin name:
Last week she added a young, single-mother blogger to the site, a person who could reach a wide audience and was experiencing life as a mother in the glare of unusually harsh publicity: Bristol Palin.
As an editor, Nancy often lives in the more mundane world of Internet punditry — posting blogs, correcting typos, monitoring traffic, and managing a group of talented and eclectic writers. But some days are less mundane than others.
Over the weekend, Bristol wrote a post that asked a simple question: “Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?” Noting that President Obama had called Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh’s now-famous insult, Bristol reminds the President that she’s been the target of much worse:
And he quotes what Bristol wrote, replicated in part by Steve’s post (yes, go read his and the actual post). Then he adds this:
…After Bristol sent the post in, Nancy put it up shortly after midnight on Sunday night.
Nancy tweeted it to her few hundred followers (she and I have a rather pathetic contest for twitter followers; right now I’m barely in the lead with a whopping 776), and Bristol facebooked it. Within hours, it had been shared 8,000 times. Already it was taking off.
And then it exploded (emphasis mine):
Then Sarah Palin tweeted.