Unintentional or not.
Bumped & updated below.
Blogger garners fame after 'Bittergate'.
She's now internationally famous - if only for 15 minutes. Her name is Mayhill Fowler, and she first posted her audio recording & transcript of the obamanator's now infamous 'dis of hicks' to a citizen-journalist web site published by - guess who? The Huffington Post.
Mrs. Fowler, an Obama donor invited to the reporter-free fundraiser, has been both lauded for her chutzpah and condemned for substandard ethics by online peers and mainstream press alike. She says she did not hide her recorder.Savor the irony.
Ms. Fowler joins a elite group of bloggers who've stung high profile media & politico types with 'plain sight' scoops of serious snafus.
Trent Lott, at the time a Republican senator from Mississippi, resigned as Senate majority leader in 2002 after racially charged remarks he made at a 100th birthday party for a fellow lawmaker were reported by bloggers. In 2005, Eason Jordan, then CNN's chief news executive, was snared by online scribes who reported his comment that American troops might have deliberately targeted journalists, made during a world financial summit in Davos, Switzerland. He resigned two weeks later.
Veteran CBS newsman Dan Rather also resigned that year after bloggers revealed he used falsified documents in a story claiming President Bush compromised his Vietnam-era military service.
Meanwhile, some of the dinosaur dead tree boys announced layoffs.