I have a question.

Why would it matter if Jet Blue takes it’s advertising off the blogger YearlyKos convention webpage?

I am aware Bill O’Reilly made quite the stink, and Jet Blue pulled it’s endorsement, but it doesn’t look like this convention is hurting for sponsorship when I look at the right hand side of the front page.

According to this article in The San Francisco Chronicle, Jet Blue got about 1 thousand emails after The O’Reilly Factor went after Daily Kos (which is not YearlyKos). So JetBlue got corporate jitters, why would it matter to a convention this size?

While that may have quieted O’Reilly’s supporters, it riled up the netroots who bombarded JetBlue for backing down.

“We are the only people in the world who united the left and the right,” joked JetBlue spokeswoman Jenny Devlin, who noted that the 1,000 e-mails the airline has received are split roughly between partisans from the left and right. She regrets that “Mr. O’Reilly totally misrepresented and misinformed the public as to what we did.”

It was a lesson in how the political blogosphere works, even for a company that cultivates a hip, irreverent image.

“We wanted to get JetBlue’s logo in front of 1,400 really connected, influential people who know how to build a community in the online world,” she said. “This wasn’t about taking political sides. But we learned a lesson here. This is new territory for us. There are a lot of passionate people online.”