It is with a heavy heart that I remove Bree Palin from my blogroll. As many of you know Bree has closed down her site and is working on a big project that requires her full attention. She did NOT get chased off or threatened (as was the case with Audrey) so do not worry about her. Bree became one of my confidants and we e-mailed each other and shared information often. (I shared the picture of the ruffled ear baby with her at least two months before I posted it. THAT is how much I trusted her!) I will very much miss seeing her blog on the left side of my page when I log onto my computer every morning. And I am confident most of you will too. As for the second change to my blogroll the reasons are entirely different. For many months now I have been receiving complaints about one of the contributors to this site. From accusations that they were passing themselves off as an Alaskan blogger, to charges that they were harassing people, to their habit of leaving comments on other blogger’s sites in an attempt to hijack the thread, the complaints have numbered at least one or two a week for months now. Yet I have resisted taking them off my blogroll because they have done some fine work and I like having as many people working on revealing Palin’s lies as possible. But yesterday was the final straw. I learned yesterday that threats were made to one of my very best friends. The threat was not physical but it was a hurtful attempt to get undeserved credit for their hard work. For me that was it! The reason that I have received so many complaints is because there has been an assumption that I support this site and that we are working together. We are not! Developing trust on the blogosphere is very tricky indeed. There are a lot of people who say they are your friend and then stab you in the back. I have been blessed with some of the best friends that you can imagine (and yes Bree is one of them), but this person betrayed my trust a very long time ago and, though they were on my blogroll, they were never in my confidence. Now I am certainly not telling anybody WHO they should visit on the internet and I hope that you continue to give them your support if you like their work, but I will no longer be allowing any comments which link to them or talk about stories on their site to be posted in my comments section. And before this person decides on retaliation for my decision, I would remind them that I did NOT mention them by name, and that I left out a ton of details that I am sure they do not want revealed. I know this will upset and confuse a number of you and I apologize, I hope that you trust I did not make this decision lightly and that it is one which is long overdue. I will not be adding any more clarification to this post so please do not ask for it. Now that this unsavory business is behind us I need to focus on interviews for next week’s stories. Happy surfing my friends! The quest continues.
Originally posted here:
Changes to my Blogroll with a short explanation.
