Kossacks, we need your help. (I apologize about the loud title).
Yesterday I posted a diary about a blog poll at Time online. Dailykos was being freeped by someone and had only a 6 out of 10 rating. We pushed it up to 7 out of 10 and seventh on the list out of 25. However, it has fallen back to 6 out of 10 and number fifteen on the list.
Sitting at the top spot with 4772 16,720 (changed from last night) votes and an eight out of 10 rating is the derisive conservative site Ace of Spades HQ. Ace of Spades recently got its 10 millionth hit being online since 2006. Dailykos does that in about two weeks. So how is it that a second tier blog gets the top spot at Time? A couple of well-designed freep campaigns.
So, why is this important? Raising DailyKos up and replacing Ace of Spades is vital for these reasons.
First, with DailyKos in the number one spot, it will bring to DailyKos people who are politically and MSM aware, but may not be aware of the blogosphere. That builds the netroots base and helps us elect more, better Democrats.
Second, it removes a conservative blog from a position of prominence. They don't need any more publicity than they already have to spread their filth and lies. What meaning hath the Ace of Spades, anyway? Just that it was left on dead Vietcong by American soldiers during the Vietnam war falsely thinking that the Vietnamese interpreted the spade symbol to mean death and bad fortune. Bad fortune, death, and misunderstanding? Sound familiar?
Third. Okay, reason number three. Are you kidding me?!? We can't do better than number 16 out of 25 at Time.com?
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Okay, here's what to do. (Sorry, no live links or Time.com will track the referrer URL and know we're up to something.)
Action Item One, open a new browser.
Then, cut and paste this URL into the browser address field at the top to go vote for DailyKos. I humbly suggest a 10 out of 10, if you, as I do, find DailyKos "indispensable" (Time's own description for a "10" rating).
www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725323_1725329_1725345,00.html
Now, open a second browser window.
Action Item Two, cut and paste this URL in to the browser address field at the top of the browser and go let Ace of Spades HQ know what you think of them.
www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725323_1725329_1725346,00.html
Need some motivation?
{latexgloves} Choice quotes from "Ace"
When Obama misspeaks, it's an "Oboner":
The Obama boner -- or "Oboner," as I will so cleverly term his latest in a long line of miscues in contemporaneous speaking
About blogger overwork and being too tired and stressed out:
Eh. That's what crystal meth is for.
And Democratic whore scandals.
About Palestinian fishermen killing an endangered turtle:
I don't really care if some fishermen killed a valuable turtle they had caught. I probably would have killed it. I mean, how often do you get to whack an endgagered animal? Not often. I guess that's what makes them endangered.
Oh, and he links to Malkin's Hot Air and Instapundit all the time. Lovely.
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