White Noise Insanity

My first, thought when I read about Tom Delay having a blog on AMERICAblog after someone posted a link about it, was that ole Tom has realized liberals and democrats have dominated the Internet in the political arena and these blogs were a force right up to this past election in November. Raising money for politicians was easy and AMERICAblog alone raised over $100,000 (split between many candidates). If this is why he's created a blog, then all the power to him.

I think everyone should be involved in what is happening in our nation and abroad everyday. Blogging (about state, local, national, and international events) has been a very good tool to do that, but what I'm going to be looking for on Tom's blog from this point forward is whether or not he will allow the freedom of speech by those who are responding to his posts. I say that because large conservative blogs such as Redstate.com bans anyone who does not agree with the views of the blog. After one registers to post there, Redstate takes up to 5 days to approve your submission and after they do some research (probably through Google), they won't accept you if they find you are a liberal. To me, that is not right! AMERICAblog rarely bans anyone and there are times I wished John Aravosis would do more of it, but when I sit back and think about it, all views should be expressed on any particular subject because that is what makes America...America. Banning someone for making threats or hijacking a person's screenname is legitimate.

So speaking of registering to be a part of Tom Delay's blog, first you have to fill out the application for GAIN (Grassroots, Action, and Information Network) and then second, you have to pay $52.00 a year to remain a member. What the heck is that? What I'd like to know is if Tom Delay will be using this money for his court trial at some point! Interesting that he would be charging anyone to receive his emails and other stuff. It doesn't sit right with me. I was always under the assumption that freedom of speech was free!

I encourage you to go and visit Delay's blog, because his first post has him explaining why he created the blog and the responses to this post was mainly positive in his favor. The other posts after that do have negative responses. Have these people been banned from posting in the future? Who knows. There's no way to find out. He has a 'comment moderator' in force, which means you can leave a response without having to register, but if Tom or whoever doesn't want to publish it, they don't have to. I left a response to the current post and it will be interesting if it does actually get published! I'll be checking. You know I will. ;-)