The turn of events only emphasizes the influence of the Internet on the operation of a president-elect whose campaign was powered in large part by the Web.
“Blogs do have significant influence,” said blogger Glenn Greenwald, one of those critical of Brennan. “I think the Obama team would be foolish if they just ignored what happened on blogs, and I know for a fact that there are people high up in the Obama campaign and now the transition team who read blogs regularly.”
As a result, say knowledgeable sources, the Obama transition team pushed Brennan to withdraw his name. “Their knees buckled,” one intelligence veteran said. Read more here
I guess Barack will not listen to The American people unless they are bloggers on the internet. We shall see if he listening later as many start will start disagreeing with him on the issues!
I can’t say I feel bad for Brennan. The CIA has been conducting its own more or less seditious anti-Bush campaign. When one of the intel mandarins is vetoed by the moonbat lobby, it’s kind of satisfying.
At least we know they are reading the blogs even if they don’t listen to us! LOL