Today, one of our authors, Adrienne Ross came under attack by two hate blogs (“Bree Palin” and “Palingates”), because the intent of her metaphorical language in an article pertaining to Levi Johnston was twisted and distorted. In “Levi: When Lying Dogs Won’t Sleep; Updated,” Ms. Ross said,
“I believe there’s hope for Levi; I really do. And I hope he grabs a hold of it soon because he’s treading on very thin Alaska ice. Like I said at the start, there’s something to be said for letting sleeping dogs lie. But when a lying dog refuses to put his rabid mouth to sleep, sometimes you just have to put that dog down.”
The original story was posted at Ms. Ross’ blog: Motivation Truth.
By “put that dog down,” Ms. Ross meant “put the dog in its place,” not the literal translation of “euthanize.” The hate bloggers intentionally misinterpreted Ms. Ross’ sentence to suggest that she was advocating the murder of Levi Johnston. The hate bloggers initiated a harassment campaign against her, digging into her job information and threatening her with the FBI. No reasonable person who reads this article would believe that Ms. Ross was making a threat or advocating for violence against Levi Johnston, for the entire article used metaphor. It makes no sense that she would wish for Levi Johnston’s demise after expressing hope that he would change his ways.
Adrienne Ross is a well-known supporter of Governor Palin’s. She is the editor and publisher of Motivation: Truth and a Board Member, Media Director, and NY State Organizer for the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee. Ms. Ross met Governor Palin in Auburn, NY in early June, 2009 as part of celebrating Alaska’s 50th Year of Statehood. She met Governor Palin a second time during a month-long trip to Alaska. Ms. Ross is also an author on Sarah Palin Information Blog, Sarah Palin Web Brigade, C4P, and SarahNet, and a regular guest on the Eddie Burke Show, April-Liesel Binapri’s People Power Hour, among other venues. Ms. Ross served at Governor Palin’s side at her book signing stop in Rochester, NY.
She is a responsible and dedicated author and an absolute asset to the US for Palin team.
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Bree Palin is a whack job site that has been lying relentlessly about Trig not being Sarah Palin's son. Palingates has been spouting off about one Palin scandal after another. Both sites are like really bad rolls of tape. They don't stick. Palingates seems to have found what they think is the "holy grail" in none other than Levi Johnston. Unfortunately, it's just a plastic cup. Levi Johnston is about as credible as a fly in the grand scheme of media requirements for credibility – even by liberal media standards.
We're well aware of the politics of personal destruction and the smear tactics these deeply troubled, and may I loosely say "possessed" souls, use in the absence of legitimate arguments against a person's policy positions or rights to pursue success. Without going into a long theological / psychological explanation on "possession," let's just leave it at this: those with self loathing, eat themselves so deeply down within that their hatred has to find an outlet. That outlet occurs when in the course of preserving self image, a miserable sack, unable to self improve themselves, resorts to the tearing down of others more successful than they are in order to bring themselves more closely in line with their world view.
In other words, misery loves company. If you believe there is a devil, this is one of his tactics. If you don't, it's still a pyshologically sound argument which explains the manifestation of their inner torture. Either way, these people are pure evil. We must keep our distance from evil at all times. But when attacked, overwhelming force is required (no violence, though, use the pen and keyboard folks).
First of all, everyone that knows Adrienne knows that she stands for nothing but good, and a comment about putting a dog down is simply a rhetorical statement, not a threat or advocacy of violence. Bree Palin and Palingates are just loons looking for any reason to start trouble. They may be reconsidering that now that they hear the sound of an unexpectedly high number of rhetorical swords being unsheathed across the blogosphere. The Palin army is bigger than they are and bigger than they think. If they want to bring down Palin, they will have to go through us. And as in Adrienne's case, we got each others' backs.
I call on all of Adrienne's friends and allies in the blogosphere to keep an eye on these loose lugnuts and encourage the wheels to fall off. Use their own words and lies to expose them. Their manifestation of hate can be turned back onto themselves. Eventually, they will fall because of their own evil thoughts. But it doesn't mean we can't bond together, fight their smears and enjoy the wreck when it happens.
-cross posted at Unsheathed
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