Daily Kos Targets Conservative Blogger Anne Sorock

I commented at Anne Sorock's post yesterday, at Legal Insurrection: "Netroots Indian speakers defend Elizabeth Warren even if not really Cherokee."

There's video at the link.

Anne reported how the Daily Kos netroots nuts came after her like a swift plague. And now blog publisher William Jacobson updates, "Breitbart lives in the heads of Netroots Nation protectors of Elizabeth Warren":

Read the comments to the Kos article — it’s pretty much what you would expect and then some.  There were demands to ruin Anne’s career, calls to confront her if she reappeared at Netroots Nation, information about her including links to her non-profit research entity, and threats to use “black bloc” tactics on her.

But it didn’t stop there, another author at Kos posted another entry posting more information about Anne, and suggesting that she is racist.  Is also included this request for Kos readers to try to manipulate Google search algorithms:

May I ask that each individual who feels compelled to respond to this diary to be sure and spell out Anne Sorock’s name when referring to her inane behavior. This will allow the diary to better “brand” her ridiculous actions when individuals use the net to try to find out what sort of individual she truly is. Thank you.

As if that were not enough, yet a third Kos author posted about Anne:

The technique comes to attention as breitbarting moves beyond Breitbart’s own “Big” websites and O’Keefe’s antics, this time at the Netroot Nation conference in Providence, RI. Someone named Anne Sorock attended a panel with the express purpose of embarrassing Native American panelists with a question concerning Elizabeth Warren’s ancestry. She was exposed in the midst of her attempt, but posted her story anyway. As usual with breitbarters, she manipulated the event she wrote about both in words and in selective editing.

Why are the Kos folks so upset?  All Anne did was ask a question which they should be asking, why won’t Elizabeth Warren apologize for falsely claiming to be Cherokee?

These are typically Alynsky tactics — try to isolate the person and personalize the attacks.  Rather than address the progressive failure to confront Warren, they try to change the topic and make it all about Anne.

According to each of the Kos authors and many of the commenters,  what Anne did constituted “Breitbarting.”  Indeed, if you read the posts and comments, they are obessessed with “Breitbarting”...

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Amazing.

And I'll add that it takes a lot of guts to go behind enemy lines like that for some first hand reporting. Kudos to Anne Sorock!

ADDED: At Big Government, "Netroots Call Cherokee Advocate Sorock, Not Exploiter Warren, Racist."