In politics, when you have been ignored it means that either your ideas are really worthless, or that it is better not to bring you to the attention of others that my not have noticed. To be mentioned means that you have hit a chord that can no longer be ignored.
The National Review has mentioned DailyKos.
In a piece by Byron York, the "power" of DailyKos to change a Senate hearing is made known to demonstrate...well, I'm not actually sure as to why.
When Melody Townsel, the Texas woman who claims that U.N.-ambassador nominee John Bolton chased her through a Moscow hotel, throwing things at her and "behaving like a madman," first tried to tell her story to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the committee showed no interest. It was only after she turned to the influential far-Left website DailyKos that Democrats on the committee realized Townsel might be a powerful weapon in their campaign to defeat the Bolton nomination.
More on the flip:
What I find to be of interest is how Mr. York's piece indicts
both parties for their lack of interest in Mr. Bolton's character. And really, isn't this how self-governence is supposed to work: when a constituent uses whatever means to get her representatives in Congress to do their jobs?
And in another shameless attempt by the Right to shoot the messenger, nowhere in Mr. York's piece does he refute Ms. Townsel's claim, nor does he cite any defense provided by Mr. Bolton or the White House.
That the SCLM didn't pickup on the story until it was well along shold come as no surprise to anyone. If only they were as "influential" and "far-left" as dKos.