A funny observation on DU's growing pains lately

[Wonk]

Someone (I'm not naming names here) with nearly 300 posts so far on DU just asked William Pitt "who are you?".

[whalerider55]

1. funny...

i remember joining DU last summer and being flabbergasted that Pitt, whose work i idolize was actually posting here...

whalerider55

[Angry Girl]

2. So? A lot of people are getting political for the first time...

They may have only recently heard about election fraud. Thank goodness they heard about DU, which they probably view as an oasis in a storm. Be nice! :-)

[WMliberal]

3. seriously. first time i saw the name, I assumed it was a fan or something

until a couple of nights later he linked to something he wrote and referred to it as his &c.

Makes you wonder who else is a DUer, but prefers anonymity.

[CornField]

7. I thought the same -- it was a fan

It was a pleasant surprise to learn otherwise.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Maybe you should go find the WE ARE ALL WILL PITT thread

[RagingInMiami]

5. you never know

maybe Brad Pitt is posting here

[SueZhope]

10. here you go

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x131353

[MuseRider]

6. I saw that

and it made me chuckle then I thought about how cool that is that people who do not know the well known among us are here anyway. I heard about DU or came to DU because of reading Will on truthout.org. Without him I might not have found this place.

[Cadence]

8. Was he at the hearings in Ohio today?

[SueZhope]

12. yes he gave us live reports today

http://www.truthout.org/cblog.shtml

[Cadence]

13. What I should have asked was ..I thought I saw him

on the cspan coverage..did anyone else? Maybe it wasn't him.

[Djinn]

9. outside the DU enclave he's not that well known

particularly if the posters not American - not knowing who he is doesn't strike me as that unusual :shrug:

[Placebo]

11. I agree.

[Wonk]

14. Lord Palmerston!!!

:silly: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F13.html

[drhilarius]

15. "Pitt the Elder!!!"