Today I posted to my blog about Joe the Plumber. I called him an asshole, and the hit counter started spinning within minutes. That's not entirely unusual. What is unusual is comments. For whatever reason, people seldom comment over at my place, which is generally OK with me.
Today was different, though. Comments started coming in left and right, most about socialism and whatever. You know, the old, "Don't take people's money" blah blah. So, being the open-minded guy I am, I start approving the comments and responding to them. Finally, I stopped accepting comments because they were all pretty much the same ignorant claptrap.
"What the hell happened there?"
So I look into the logs. Sure enough, some right-wing site that I will not dignify with a link had linked to my post. People surf over from Kos all the time through my signature. Kossacks never comment, I figure, because they're having too much fun over here. Fine. That's totally cool by me.
Anyway, it was weird and I just wanted to share it with you. If you are inflammatory on your blog, you will get flamed back. Ain't democracy and free speech great!
Just out of curiosity, do you think I was wrong to call Joe the Plumber an asshole?