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April 10, 2008
Dobson responds

Laurie Dobson is furious because of a brief report at PoliticalExtra on Wednesday that Gerald Weinand, the administrator of the liberal blog Turn Maine Blue, had banned her from the site.

To be fair, for those readers that might care, here's what Dobson wrote in full.
Click here.

One thing I'd like to do at the blog is pull back the curtain a bit on interaction between reporters and sources. Dobson complained that I didn't call her for comment or post her side of the story. If this were a full-blown story, I definitely would have called her. In a very small world - such as this blog -Weinand not giving Dobson a chance to blog at TMB is news. But it is not news in the big scheme of things.

Posted at 11:01 AM

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If "not giving Dobson a chance to blog at TMB is news",then THIS is definitely news: http://www.asmainegoes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54519

Posted by willal11
April 10, 2008 01:45 PM

Still no traffic (comments) on Dobson's blog.

Highly amusing, and thanks for cleaning up Gerald's unrelenting typos....

He's the admin. during Burnham's prolonged absence; and can do as he pleases in that regard (trolls upticking portal stats, nonwithstanding).

TMB is focused upon electing (hopefully progressive) Dems, vs. Independents.

http://tinyurl.com/5bn5rp

http://tinyurl.com/629cv4

3 yrs. to present--i.e., Dobson's comments search on DKos (not "news," I concur):

http://tinyurl.com/3fwk4m

Yes, Google's cache can be quite revealing for anyone's campaign--i.e., Allen YouTube staffer disclaimer kerfluffle (although, nine days has elapsed).

Sorta late on that one, as it's the equivalent of two months in blogland.

Posted by mainefem
April 10, 2008 10:47 PM

Does anyone in the D.C. Beltway actually *work* for a living?

The TMB stats page is my favorite.

Let's ping IP addresses for kicks.

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VISITOR ANALYSIS
Referring Link No referring link
Host Name
IP Address 156.33.157.115
Country United States
Region District Of Columbia
City Washington
ISP U.S. Senate Sergeant At Arms
Returning Visits 0
Visit Length 0 seconds
VISITOR SYSTEM SPECS
Browser
Operating System
Resolution Unknown
Javascript Enabled

Navigation PathDate Time WebPage
11th April 2008 00:04:44 No referring link
Turn Maine Blue:: Tom Allen to host mortgage forum Saturday

Posted by mainefem
April 11, 2008 01:01 AM

It is of amusing, mainefem, that members of Congress are more interested in what I write, not the grammatical errors. That you continue to visit Turn Maine Blue, and even use our stats to help your arguments, means that you are more interested in the content to.

So why do you continue to attack me about grammatical errors? At least I post under my given name, not an alias like you do. It is so easy to ridicule when you know that your identity will not be uncovered.

You were also banned from Turn Maine Blue, mainefem, for the same sort of attacks that you continue to lob here and elsewhere. Perhaps you and Ms. Dobson should do lunch, as you seem to have one thing in common.

Posted by
April 11, 2008 08:14 PM

Authoritarian-sounding, aren't we?

Oh, my.

After nearly one and a half yrs., TMB's content (quality & quantity) & traffic stats (lack of outreach) are beyond dismal (as is your ongoing inferior "writing").

Lurkers hitting refresh repeatedly on the front page hardly constitutes legitimate Congressional "traffic."

However, the D.C. Beltway lurkers are indeed noteworthy ("tax dollars at work," so to speak).

Great paid gig....

Use the *edit* diary feature more often (it's painful, as well as humorous to count 'em); and beef up the ongoing lack of correct punctuation (esp. apostrophes) & overall absence of grammatical efficacy.

Edwin Newman is rolling over in his grave.

Unless there are $$$ involved, I could honestly care less about driving any blog's traffic stats (or of "being banned").

Alias? *double yawn*

Start heavily recruiting CD#2 bloggers and/or trolls (or prepare yourself for numerous lengthy road trips through Nov.).

Ciao.

Posted by mainefem
April 14, 2008 11:36 PM

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