Several Digg.com users utilize the “shout” sytem, where a user can send a link to a fellow member’s profile, but several users of the popular Internet news aggregator have increasingly abused the system to send John McCain nasty messages.

Browsing McCain’s profile, links point to stories about adult dating Web sites, an article about the city of Sacramento, Calif. keeping pornography in its libraries and perhaps the strangest shout of all is one about vaginal yeast infections that has been displayed in the Senator’s profile for over three days.

Barack Obama only displays shouts from friends, and Hillary Clinton keeps hers private.

Earlier: McCain Hides Age On Digg

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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama proudly display their ages on their Digg.com candidate profile pages, but John McCain’s profile on the popular Internet news aggregator seems to be missing something.

McCain will be 72 years old in August.

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From the NY Times:

Some Obama supporters in the blogosphere were up in arms at Ms. Fowler. They doubt that she really supports Mr. Obama, have called her a plant for Mrs. Clinton and suggested she was deceptive in getting into the fund-raiser.

Fowler told the newspaper “that she was initially reluctant to write about what Mr. Obama had said because she actually supports him — which partly explains why she was at the fund-raiser in the first place and why there was a four-day delay between the event and the publication of her post. Ultimately, she said, she decided that if she didn’t write about it, she wouldn’t be worth her salt as a journalist.”

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From an astute reader:

“Progressive” blogger Joshua Micah Marshall at Talking Points Memo continues his obsession with the “Hillary Clinton-Bosnia-Sniper” story. On Thursday, as of 21:00 ET, Marshall totally ignores the major foreign policy speech by Sen. Obama for more pressing matters: YouTube mashups!

The Clinton-Bosnia-Sniper story seems to be peaking. And there have been a lot of snippets of video swirling around YouTube with this or that part of the story. But most of them are incomplete or rapid-fire-cut or edited to make Sen. Clinton look as foolish as possible. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as Jerry Seinfeld used to say. We do those kinds of videos too. But since you’ve probably seen a lot of those, we wanted to go back and put together all the key moments in roughly chronological order — what Sen. Clinton said on different occasions, the key video from the trip, what other eyewitnesses say, what her spokespersons and aides say, etc.

Obama’s economic speech was surprisingly given zero front page coverage. The indictment of the Puerto Rico governor was also ignored. Clinton’s call for Democratic unity was also ignored.

Earlier this month, TPM fired veteran political writer Linda Hirshmann for “not making the case for Obama”: Their reason: “We’re focusing on getting our long-standing regulars and folks covering things we don’t on the blog.”

Covering things like, YouTube mashups of the Bosnia visit?

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Peter Daou, the Internet director for the Hillary Clinton campaign for president, has sent the following message to several bloggers:

I’m writing this to a group of bloggers. Some of you are Hillary supporters, some not, some neutral.

I want to address a pervasive misconception, namely, that Senator Obama hasn’t run a negative campaign against Hillary. I think it’s time to put that misconception to rest.

The truth is that for months, the Obama campaign has been attacking Hillary, impugning her character and calling into question her lifetime of public service. And now the Chicago Tribune reports that Senator Obama is preparing a “full assault” on her “over ethics and transparency.” To those who contend that Senator Obama is the clear frontrunner, I ask, to what end this “full assault” on Hillary? Read more…

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Kentucky Rep. Tim Couch has filed a bill aimed at making anonymous commenting on Web sites illegal.

“The bill would require anyone who contributes to a Web site to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site,” according to press reports. “Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.”

A Web site owner would have to pay a fine if someone posted anonymously on their site, if the bill were to become law. Under the plan a first-time offense fine would be $500, and a Web site owner would have to pay $1,000 for each subsequent offense.

Couch said he hopes to cut down online bullying.

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Update, 4 p.m. ET: N. Kafi, the managing editor of the “Geeska Afrika” publication, tells Big Head DC that the publication produced the original report on Sen. Barack Obama’s travels in Kenya, and the Clinton camp had nothing to do with the circulation. The report includes the picture Matt Drudge indicated was circulated by the Clinton campaign. The report has been in worldwide circulation since August 2006:

http://www.geeskaafrika.com/ethiopia_31aug06.htm

Original report, 12:58 p.m. ET: While the Matt Drudge Web site tried desperately early Monday to convince readers that a picture of Sen. Barack Obama dressed in traditional Somali garb has been circulated by the Sen. Hillary Clinton campaign, Big Head DC can confirm that the Clinton camp did not release the photo.

In fact, the picture has appeared on the news site “Geeska Afrika” for several months.

What may have happened is Drudge found the picture on the Geeska Afrika Web site and then knowingly launched a fake story insisting the Clinton camp was behind the circulation of the picture. There may be evidence that Drudge even fabricated e-mails from Clinton staffers referring to the photo. The Internet publisher has long been well-known for his distaste for the Clinton family.

By now, the Drudge narrative has been picked up by several conservative-leaning publications, including the Politico. And the Obama camp has released a statement denouncing the Clinton camp for its imaginary ties to the photo, which shows Obama dressed as a Somali Elder during a 2006 visit to Kenya.

Of course, Big Head DC doesn’t yet have the reach of the Drudge Report, so good luck getting this message out there.

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A writer posting on the official Sen. Barack Obama campaign for president community Web site has responded to Larry Sinclair’s allegations of drug use and a sexual encounter with Obama in 1999.

The writer, named Matte Black, says that he has started a Wikipedia “debunking” page regarding Sinclair’s allegation, in part, Black says, because “the gossip site, bigHeadDC is pumping it up routinely.”

Black, an Arlington, Va.-based Obama supporter, refers to Sinclair as a “clown,” and he insists that the Web site WhiteHouse.com is Sinclair’s sponsor.

Sources closely familiar with Sinclair’s situation take this action as a sign that the Obama campaign is becoming more worried about Sinclair’s allegations coming to light in the mainstream media.

Earlier: Obama Supporter Buys LarrySinclair.com; Bill O’Reilly Alludes to Obama-Sinclair Affair?

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Just a few hours after the scandalous Sen. John McCain affair story was published in the New York Times, there was a rash of simultaneous Google searches for “Huma Abedin.” As Big Head DC has covered previously, Abedin is a close campaign aide to Sen. Hillary Clinton.

It’s unknown at this point why so many people apparently spontaneously googled Abedin’s name at the exact same time, but there has been speculation in the past on the Internet and in a report published by a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper about the nature of her relationship with Clinton.

Five percent of the Web traffic for the searches resulted from Atlanta, according to Google. The search engine called the results “volcanic.” More people, too, were searching for her name than “Vicki Iseman,” the woman mentioned in the explosive McCain New York Times story.

Has a rival campaign put out some sort of secret release mentioning Abedin?

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Big Head DC has been alerted that YouTube, which is owned by Google, Inc., has allegedly attempted to suppress the popularity of Larry Sinclair’s online videos. Sinclair says in the videos that he used cocaine with Sen. Barack Obama and performed a sex act on him in 1999.

Suppressing the videos’ prominence would dramatically affect the number of YouTubers who actually see them. The view count of Sinclair’s main video has increased by over 100,000 in the last week, but the video is not listed in the YouTube “Most Viewed List” for this week. Also, the “Daily,” “Weekly” and “Monthly Honors” for “Most Discussed” videos on the site have not been updated in recent days. The Sinclair video has substantially more comments and views (about 350,000 as of this writing) than many other popular news and politics videos.

Google, the parent company of YouTube, has not responded to Big Head DC’s request for comment on this matter, but its founders have said publicly that they are Obama supporters.

Earlier: Larry Sinclair to Take Polygraph In Attempt to Prove Obama Drug & Sex Allegations

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