The Many Happenings

Today Kevin Bryant, a Republican senator from South Carolina, posted a very offensive and immature image on his blog that contained Senator Obama alongside Bin Laden. Bryant has just recently taken down the image for unknown reasons, but you can still see it here:

Despite my personal beliefs of the image, Bryant had full freedom to post the image. Shortly after, many news sites reported about his controversial post, and that is exactly what he wanted. I found about this through this Digg post, and decided to add my comment amongst the other’s on Bryant’s blog.

According to Alexa, KevinBryant.com is currently ranked 2,156,617 - that is horrible. His blog gets absolutely no traffic, so the senator obviously posted the image to get some free publicity. I decided to post this:

Idiots like Bryant post this stuff on their blogs for attention. If you noticed, this site is ranked in the millions on Alexa.com, which basically means that it gets NO traffic. Posting something stupid and thus annoying at this point in politics is just a cheap way to get some extra visitors to his site.

Besides my claim of him being an “idiot”, something that is commonly used nowadays to describe a Republican in office, my comment portrayed absolutely no harm. Most of his readers probably don’t even know what Alexa is, and for the ones that do, then they will have something to agree with when reading the 30+ comments that his post generated.

Senator Kevin Bryant had full right to post the image that he did, and in return, I had full right to post the comment that I did. But shortly after I submitted it, the “pending” turned to “deleted” and it vanished from existence. Where’s my free speech?

Technorati Tags: Kevin Bryant, Senator, Republican, Politics, South Carolina, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Bush