Wonkette: Cowards
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FLASH: Wonkette BLINKS and scrubs its site of any reference to Country Above Self: Following the publication of When Liberals Can’t Control The Vote, providing reference links, and quotes from the pages of Wonkette; that cowardly website scrubbed its content. They deleted the page where heathen’ posted: “Wonkette Power! yeah! and that’s why I heart wonkette! also nice work getting paid to hack their election all those of you who voted during work!”; (see Google); and they deleted the page where ‘AngryBlakGuy’ responded, “…if these are the “Patriots” then in the immortal words Rev. Wright ‘GOD DAMN AMERICA!!!’” (see Google); Wonkette sent literally thousands of people to visit this site, they took credit for mangling the vote totals (three known hacks of the vote database) and now they cowardly run from admission. Their own members nominated Wonkette as a Traitor, three times. We denied them all. Now they admit it. The big and powerful Wonkette, lost to Patriotism. Vote for them.
See the icon, second from the left, as one of their top stories for nearly a week. Now it is scrubbed from their site.
Cowards
UPDATE: After publication of this notice in a few locations (RedState primarily) two people from Wonkette, used the chat service of Campfirenow to talk about it. Immediately after that 'chat,' Wonkette returns. It's nice to have them so afraid they have to return content with '[Hey comical idiots, we'd never take this post down!]'. Welcome back Wonkettes. Now you can vote yourself as high as you'd like. Its amazing what power a little Patriotic website has over the big bad Wonkette. Whoa... we're scared. NOT.
Celebrating Patriots and Exposing Traitors At http://www.countryaboveself.com. Wonkette Blinked. Viva Liberal Slayer.
Wonkette moved servers and changed CMS. I take no sides in this dispute, but I can speak from personal experience when I say that it's a troublesome task to move a site from Movable Type to WordPress, and that the size of the site only increases the difficulty. I find it completely believable that the move left the tagging system unworkable until after manual repairs and tweaks.
That would be my guess too. Movable type to Wordpress is a pain, especially with a blog that size, a complex tagging system, and thousands of comments. I've moved smaller blogs from MT to WP and seen the disaster first hand.