So-Called “Blogs” Exposed: The Secret’s Out

Down in the seedy bowels of the underqround Internet . . .

Republicans have accused Democratic U.S. House candidate Stephanie Herseth of maintaining a secret Web page to receive campaign donations raised from ads on liberal groups’ Internet sites.
But a Herseth campaign official scoffed at the charge, saying the Web page is not secret and can be found easily with a standard search of the Internet.
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Jason Glodt, executive director of the South Dakota Republican Party, said the Herseth campaign arranged the special Internet donation site to prevent most South Dakotans from knowing about Herseth’s relationship with such liberal groups.
The Herseth Web page takes campaign donations from people directed there from Internet sites called “blogs,” which are online bulletin boards that feature journals, opinionated articles and messages.
“There’s a reason she’s got that secret site. She doesn’t want to advertise the fact she’s doing this,” Glodt said Thursday.
“I think the real point is you judge a person by the friends they keep, and look where she’s focusing her fund-raising efforts,” Glodt said. “Anybody can look at these blogs and the content, and realize the values they are promoting are completely contradictory to the South Dakota values she purports to represent.”
However, Herseth campaign spokesman Russ Levsen said that particular Internet page merely takes donations from people who find out about the campaign when they visit political blogs that feature Herseth ads.
“I would dispute the premise that it’s secret because it’s an open site on the Internet that anybody can get to,” Levsen said.
The supposedly secret Web site is one of the first results when an Internet user does a standard search for the terms “blog” and “Herseth” on the Google search engine, Levsen said.
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People who click on those blog ads are taken to a separate page on Herseth’s Internet site, where they can donate to her campaign. There is no link on Herseth’s main campaign site to take Internet users to the blog-related page.

Via Talking Points Memo.
UPDATE: Ringleader Kos reveals the secret passage.
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