Did you know there are roughly 700 USA bloggers doing the Lord’s work?

I didn’t. Mick Huckabee does. 

He said the bloggers, whom he called his “secret weapon,” spent their days “pounding their keyboards and hitting ‘send’ in the middle of the night.” Ed Rollins, his campaign consultant, said none of the bloggers were on Mr. Huckabee’s payroll, chuckling at the idea of a payroll.

At one point, Chuck Norris, Mr. Huckabee’s most famous supporter, wandered into the small meeting room where the event was being held. Mr. Norris, the martial artist and action actor, confessed to being “computer illiterate” himself, but thanked the bloggers for getting him and Mr. Huckabee together.
Mr. Norris proposed holding a fundraiser for Mr. Huckabee with a “virtual barbeque” at his Texas ranch on Jan. 20. He said he would take the blogosphere on a virtual tour of the ranch, including his 2,000-square-foot gym, and perhaps Mr. Huckabee would sing with his band. One blogger proposed that all bloggers hold actual barbeques in their home towns at the same time to raise money. The bloggers applauded their approval. 

Now, these roughly 700 thanked bloggers (how come there aren’t 666 or 742?) have new marching orders:

Mr. Huckabee had a rough time yesterday at the hands of the media when he announced he was canceling a negative ad against Mitt Romney and then showed the ad to the assembled reporters, who burst out laughing. Today, he turned the tables. He noted that the mainstream media might be “filing a bad story” right now, and if the bloggers were relying on the same wireless system at the hotel, they might be “clogging up the lines” and preventing them from filing.

If that’s the case, “thank you,” he said. “You’re doing the Lord’s work.”

Oh.

There were a dozen bloggers in the room when Mr. Huckabee said thanks.
Journalists weren’t allowed to speak.

I counted 594 blogs on the Mike Huckabee blogroll, give or take a few repeats and my ability to count past 100. I counted 131 on Fred Thompson’s blogroll, a few that were also on Mr. Huckabees. I picked it for contrast because it was easy to find. Hundreds of blogs spring up during elections. 
By Huckabees logic they and any other blogger supporting any other candidate must really be disappointing Jesus. Repent you sinners, repent!

It would be interesting to know how many traditional media stories have been published or aired featuring Mr. Huckabee.  Someone with Lexis/Nexis could find out easily enough. 

Dear God, it’s going to be a looong year.  Do I hear an amen?

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