authors or celebrities who will share these stories from the kind of liberal online fever swamps and they ll share them on twitter without saying i know for a fact this is true. but pass them along cred lousily. in one remarkable case, democratic senator ed markey was giving an interview on cnn and parroted something he had read own the palmer report and journalists followed up with him and he had to retract it and apologi apologize. but the fact that has no credible sourcing and has not been touched by any mainstream news organization is able to bubble up from the bowels of the internet and arrive on the desk of a u.s. senator shows how influential they blogs can be. you cite in your piece for the atlantic a buzzfeed analysis. put these on the screen. occupy democrats, the other 98% and addicting info. what did buzzfeed find about their facebook postings.