(Freshly cross-posted here, on Phillybits due to a pick-up here, on AllSpinZone. I recently commented in the Open Thread that if you decide to link, post, or comment about this topic on your own blog, to include the list of participating blogs and add yours to the bottom so as it continues, we can see how it grows. Thanks!)
Recent searches by tags reveal four diaries on the story about the White House going after The Onion for posting the Presidential Seal on their website with regards to their parody Presidential Speeches.
Previous diaries
BREAKING WIND! White House Sez the Onion Stinks!
White House goes after The Onion
White House Sends Threatening Letter to...THE ONION
Bush to The Onion: "Leave me the $#@! alone!"
This one's slightly different. Follow...
I first heard about this over
here, at
AllSpinZone. From
SpinDentist:
I think everyone on the reality section of the internets should post the Presidential Seal today in solidarity with the Administration's stance on law and order. Perhaps they should even link to www.whitehouse.gov in every post to show the White House web statisticians just how much we care about OUR seal. No, it isn't Bush's seal.
The first thing I did after that was leave a comment saying I was, and then I did it.
Here, take a look.
I then did a Google search of my blog, Phillybits and noticed something interesting. I was listed on here, on The Poor Man's Institute, a blog I'd never seen. The article linked was also about the Onion story but apparently there's a trend growing in terms of posting the Presidential Seal as a protest to the White House's ridiculous actions against The Onion.
This is where it gets interesting, though. It's catching on.
MyopicZeal posts on Poor Man's:
[...] eal on their blogs. Participants so far: Pandagon, All Spin Zone, PhillyBits, Jesus General, The Poor Man Institute, Majikthise Ablogistan (hah!), Three Bulls Ken Ashford Watching Was [...]
A little more digging finds
Myopic Zeal's website
and post on the same topic. The result? More people protesting this story.
Participants so far:
Pandagon
All Spin Zone
PhillyBits
Jesus General
The Poor Man Institute
Majikthise
Ablogistan (hah!)
Three Bulls
Ken Ashford
Watching Washington
Dommynicius
Others commenting:
Chaos Digest
Praxxus
KAILiPuGos
So here's the call. Care to protest this ridiculous story by hosting the presidential seal,
our seal, on your website?
Here's the image if you'd like to include yourself.