Blogger Backpedaling? A Jenna Video?
An odd collection of personalities are getting traction this week among BlogPulse's key people. Among them:
• Sen. Mel Martinez (up from No. 37 to No. 8 on today's key people list) and his recently resigned legal counsel, Brian Darling, (today's burstiest person). Darling resigned this week after admitting that he wrote a "talking points memo" outlining how Republicans could make hay from the Terri Schiavo case.
• Conservative and liberal bloggers are chiming in on the issue. Conservative bloggers who thought they would "out" the memo as a Democratic party fake are now eating their words, and liberal bloggers are making sure it's a tasty treat.
• First daughter Jenna Bush has jumped to No. 4 among Bursty people, too, mostly for New York Post gossip about a video of her, shall we say, "animated" dancing at a New York night club last weekend.
• Activist legislators are at it again, including Reps. Ed Markey and Fred Upton, who want to extend daylight savings from March to November to save on energy costs (those pesky energy-guzzling light bulbs!), and Florida lawmakers, who obviously like guns a whole lot more than anyone thought.
• And there's the tale of Everyconsumer Mike Bolesta, who got arrested by paying Best Buy in $2 bills. Honest.
BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Remember all those issues that voters were debating last November? The hunt for Osama? Gay marriage? WMDs? Post-election threats to move to Canada? Where are those issues now?
Posted by Sue MacDonald at April 8, 2005 04:33 PM
