Saxby Chambliss Should've Registered saxby-chambliss.com

Instead, I got there first.

Comments

[Ursula]

It's not even in the first ten results pages on Google. How do we fix this?

[Paul Pinemarten]

It's not even in the first ten results pages on Google. How do we fix this?

fool the crawlers. Create continuous links to it from as many spots as possible and make sure it looks marked as Saxby Chambliss. As already seen the title bar has been formatted for that. The way to really strike up interest though is massive linking and clicking on the site.

[Stephen]

Links, plus if Neil just put it up it takes some time for Google to get it all sorted out.

[Neil the Ethical Werewolf]

Well, I just went public with it two hours ago. Some Daily Kos people got really excited and wanted to help me with the search engine optimization. So in a little time it should be up there...

[Jonathan]

Neil, you're an internet master! Nice work.

[Sir Charles]

You totally fucking rule!

[low-tech cyclist]

Great job, Neil!

[low-tech cyclist]

I've posted a link to Saxby-Chambliss.com from Everybody Laughs at Broder.

[Voice o' Reason]

Nice! It makes me want to move so I can vote against him.

Except for that whole part where I'd have to live in Georgia, and I'm not sure I'm temperamentally suited for it.

Or "temperature-mentally" suited, either. (Can't stand that icky sticky summer thing.)

I do like pie, however. (She said in an effort to get even further off-topic.)

[litbrit]

I sent this to TRex, who hails from Athens, GA, home of R.E.M. as well. *Hi, TRex!*

After the despicable smear campaign Chambliss pulled off against Max Cleland last time, I'd like nothing more than to see him defeated in a huge way.

[bigbadwolf]

neil, this is wonderful, and, i think, very effective. subversion and laughter are, in my estimation, the most effective tools against silly, though dangerous, people in power. i acknowledge that this is my bias, a result, i suspect, of being of irish descent personally (mockers all) and a low-rent (i.e, free) lawyer professionally. railing, which i do often, never seems to work as well as subversion and mocking; neither, though i wish it did, does the clear light of, as i see it, plain reason.

this is why, with all respect to the impeccable deborah and in perfect understanding of the wish of sir charles---whom i hold in the absolute highest esteem and with whom i share the desire--- to crush the wingers, i think moves like yours are much more likely to be effective than the endlessly ponderous and self-important commentary of keith olbermann. putting aside the differences as i, a child of the post-murrow age, understand them, between murrow and KO---one's commentaries resting on years of serious reportage and exposure to personal danger, the other's resting upon years of sports wit (which i found vastly amusing) and attendance at fancy parties (which i found even on sports center vastly annoying)---KO is simply too self-importantly "special." his need to issue "special" commentaries througout the next two weeks puts me in mind of a cross-examination relayed to every defense attorney, though possibly apocryphal: Q: [FBI] Special Agent [Jones]. It is Special Agent, isn't it? A: Yes. Q: Now, are all FBI agents Special Agents? A: Yes. Q: So, you're not really that special, are you? No further questions.

Now, that's the paradigm for hitting power in a bad situation and making the paladins of the beseiged (;-)) feel better, but i think there is a lesson in there for KO. it's about us, not you. go knock on some doors or make some calls and stop grandstanding. better yet. be as clever as neil, who earns a small fraction of your salary.

thanks neil

[Sir Charles]

bbw,

I was (mostly) just busting on Mr. Across the Aisle. I'm a pretty big believer in ridicule too. And although I love and appreciate Keith, I am really impressed with how well Rachel Maddow does the same thing with utter charm and great good humor.

Neil really is a genius too.

[bigbadwolf]

SC, i know that, about you and about neil. mostly my point was just that neil and you and deborah do a more effective job than KO, and i don't undertand why we on the left celebrate KO (if we want to celebrate a mainstream figue, let's celebrate krugman, who was right and detailed years before KO). i think KO's a self-aggrandizing blowhard, although on our side. we'd call him rush or glenn or dumbfuck, if he were on the other side with his tropes and treacle.

maddow is great. so, in his more moderate than us way at his much high level of importance is obama. his digs at the bad guys are good and effective at showing they have no clothes, and yet his sincerity never overpowers. i still don't know what exactly we are getting, but, especially given the mess we're in maybe we end up with the domestic LBJ or even FDR (for all my riducle, i'm a hopeless/hopeful 60s issue). at worse, we get a democrat.

[nimh]

Clever, Neil! And Bigbadwolf, amen on that screen about Olbermann.

[MR Bill]

Dudes I love waking up and finding this sort of thing in the Intertubes..I have added many bookmarks in the past six months....
I know Saxby's voting record since his election, but have really been unaware of his backstory or really any of his history since he beat Max (whom I had met several times, a real class act and NICE man to talk to) Cleland. I just work up to find Cleland defeated, and this guy there, another bad post election morning. (Although I seem to remember it took a few days for Chambliss' victory to be clear..)

And re: Maddow, Olberman et al: for years I've thought another budding Ted Turner might look past the reflexive conservatism and build a Progressive cable news/opinion operation. These has clearly been an unserved market waiting to hear another viewpoint in the news. The conventional wisdom seemed to be that 1) the Media is already liberal; 2) NPR and outfits pushed to the fringe like Pacifica (do they still exist? he asked, not looking on-line) took care of this perceived to be small demographic; and 3) the 9-11 push by the Right to marginalize opposition as 'unAmerican' had the MSM in a real herd mentality that simply wasn't going to have dissenting voices. I suppose it takes an economic moment like this one for it to be obvious that there is money to be made on the left, and not chump change...

[MR Bill]

And I don't get MSNBC in my wretched cable package, so I just see Olberman and Maddow on youtube, and not really enough to have a great sense how the shows function apart from the generally great bits and pieces I see.

[litbrit]

bbw, thank you for the kind words, and while I'm not as put off by KO's bluster as many are, being a bit older, I get the historical references he invokes--both verbally and symbolically--in a huge way. And I tip my metaphorical hat to him every night because he was really the trailblazer in this regard--he said what needed to be said, and he said it forcefully, eloquently, and often with great humor, at a time when no-one else was saying it. Without KO, we probably wouldn't have Rachel, whom I adore and admire. (Yes, Tucker Carlson was the first to bring her out of radio and onto the small screen, but it was KO who had her on his show regularly and it was KO who first handed her the keys to host the entire thing, which she did, to rave reviews.)

The electorate, and indeed, its liberal faction, is heterogeneous, and we need all kinds of wit and good writing and delivery, methinks. Personal preferences and style may elevate some figures above others, to one mind, while others (like me) enjoy and appreciate--and see the need for--them all. As I do Neil. And KO. And Rachel.

Go, gang!

[Neil the Ethical Werewolf]

So many wonderful compliments, not the least of which is being mentioned two breaths away from Rachel Maddow :)

In 2010, I'll start earlier and see if I can do this on a much wider scale.

[Corvus]

Neil, this sight is awesome.

bbw, I think are the quips and asides throughout the rest of Countdown are the normal comments. Special Comments are just the long, thought-out, edited ones.

Also, I agree with litbrit about Olbermann's importance as a trailblazer. He opened the space for broadcast liberals, and probably was the single most instrumental figure in Maddow getting a show. Matters of affect aside—yeah, he is a bit of a blowhard—he has been incredibly influential in simply getting that voice out there. He may not have burned down the city, but he did open the gates.