During the long primary season, many here at Daily Kos came to appreciate (and link to) posts by Al Giordano, driving force in the "Authentic Journalism" movement, over at The Field. For much of that primary season, these posts were hosted at RuralVotes.com
But at the end of last week, Giordano and the hosts of Rural Votes parted ways, apparently due to a dispute over censorship. Giordano has indicated that one of his missives which discussed what the Obama campaign learned from legendary activist and organizer Saul Alinsky was taken down by Rural Votes, for reasons which still are unclear. (The presumption by many is that Rural Votes wrongly feared, in a concern-trollish way, that the association with Alinsky would somehow be used to smear Obama).
In any case, fans of The Field have been wondering (a) what is going to happen to their donations (approximately $5,000) to send Giordano to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and (b) what is going to happen to the extensive archive of stellar Field content (and comments), which are no longer accessible at Rural Votes.
There is, however, a way around Rural Votes' embargo: Namely, pages cached by Google. Try this link: