Who says conservative bloggers don’t do reporting?
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Before we fully launch into the action-packed first week of 2009, I want to provide you with a year-end wrap-up of original blog reporting on this site and across the conservative blogosphere. Why? Well, over the weekend, a few bloggers on both the left and right perpetuated an ill-informed and self-serving myth that demands debunking. The myth is that conservative bloggers don’t do reporting.
Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard complained on Friday that there aren’t enough conservatives engaged in “online partisan reporting” and holds up left-wing blogger Greg Sargent (formerly of TPM, now headed to the Washington Post) as a model Internet journalist for constantly bombarding the McCain camp with phone calls.
Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress piled on with this smug assertion: “What the right lacks are people with the skill to do the job.”
Bullcrap.
For various reasons, the incredible amount of investigative online reporting published on conservative blogs in just the last year alone has gone largely uncredited. Let’s fix that here and now:
Patterico’s Pontifications, run by L.A. County prosecutor Patrick Frey, racked up several scoops in 2008 and published a wide and deep variety of original news reports — ranging from an exclusive on William Jefferson’s bribery charges to several posts investigating the 9th Circuit Justice Alex Kozinski online obscenity controversy (see here here here and here) to extensive investigations of the questionable ethical conduct of L.A. Times writer Chuck Philips (see here and here). Frey and his guest bloggers are not backed by any deep pockets and have no journalistic “training,” but they have consistently broken stories, dug up documents, and pursued leads on legal, crime, journalistic malpractice, and entertainment stories the MSM has ignored.
Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer continues to do ahead-of-the-curve investigative work on his solo blog. You’ll recall that we teamed up to report on Air America’s financial shenanigans in 2005 — reporting that was resurrected in the Coleman/Franken race this fall. This year, Maloney broke several radio/media industry stories, many of which were picked up by Drudge or the rest of the MSM without attribution or hat tips. A sample: Maloney’s story on KGO nut Charles Karel Bouley threatening Joe The Plumber; financial turmoil at Citadel Radio; exclusives on Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes; reports on the unhinged rants of Randi Rhodes and Roseanne Barr; and a whistle-blowing post on Democrat Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s Fairness Doctrine push.
Speaking of Franken, conservative blogger Michael Brodkorb of Minnesota Democrats Exposed scooped the national media on the comedian’s tax troubles so many times (examples here and here) that even the NYTimes had to acknowledge him.
Ditto Jane Novak of Armies of Liberation and the Jawa Report, who was profiled by the fishwrap of record for her investigative work on human rights violations in Yemen.
Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee/Pajamas Media published several original reports and scoops — including the op-ed the NYTimes refused to run and an interview with FBI informant/Weather Underground insider Larry Grathwohl, and early in the year, the results of a massive FOIA request related to the Beauchamp controversy.
Robert Stacy McCain, a two-decade newspaper reporter/editor-turned-blogger, provided campaign reporting on the road from Hillary in Harrisburg, Pa., and in Shepherdstown, W.Va., to the Libertarian convention in Denver, to John McCain in Pennsylvania, back to Denver for the DNC, and in Ohio and Pennsylvania for Sarah Palin.
Internet journalist/blogger and Little Green Footballs regular Zombie (not “conservative” per se, but rather anti-sharia/anti-jihad/anti-anti-American/anti-extremist Left) did extraordinary work digging up documents related to Barack Obama and left-wing terrorist Bill Ayer’s relationship — most notably, unearthing the Weather Underground manifesto Prairie Fire and Obama’s review of Ayer’s book on the juvenile court system. Zombie’s comprehensive rally coverage in the Bay Area included:
Obama Visits Billionaires Row — San Francisco, April 6, 2008
McCain in San Francisco: Fundraiser Rally — San Francisco, July 28, 2008
Kennedy Campaigns for Obama — Oakland, February 2, 2008
Operation First Casualty anti-war protest — San Francisco, November 28, 2008
Berkeley Tree-Sit Finally Ends — Berkeley, September 9, 2008
Up Your Alley Fair — San Francisco, July 27, 2008
Marines Recruiting Office Protest and Counter-Protest — Berkeley, June 21, 2008
Israel in the Gardens 2008 — San Francisco, June 1, 2008
Nakba-60 Palestinian Festival — San Francisco, May 10, 2008
Palestinian Checkpoint on the U.C. Berkeley Campus — Berkeley, May 7, 2008
Olympic Torch Relay — San Francisco, April 9, 2008
Pro-Troops Rally at Marines Recruiting Office — Berkeley, March 22, 2008
Iraq War Fifth Anniversary Protest — San Francisco, March 19, 2008
Iraq: 5 Years Too Many — San Francisco, March 16, 2008
Berkeley Marines Protest — Berkeley, February 12, 2008
Berkeley’s Marine Corps Recruiting Center Controversy — Berkeley, February 2, 2008
Just visit Zombie’s site and you’ll see a mountain of original reporting too extensive to link individually here.
LGF, famed for exposing the bogus Dan Rather/National Guard memos, published numerous original reports this year exposing anti-Semitism at Barack Obama’s official community blog sites (here, here, here, here, and here.) LGF also continued original protest coverage (here here, here, here, here,, and here, for example). And in July, Charles Johnson once again exposed fauxtography in the form of a Photoshopped Iranian missile launch disseminated by the Agence France Press:
Both Fox News and the New York Times failed to credit LGF for debunking the photo.
Something similar happened to enterprising blogger Tom Blumer at Bizzy Blog, who dug up a treasure trove of Jeremiah Wright’s revealing church bulletins. (See also here here and here.) Blumer’s investigative work was picked up by conservative talk radio and Jake Tapper at ABC News — which hot-linked his images and somehow neglected to link to his original post until he asked.
Greg Ransom at Presto Pundit had yet another similar experience after taking the initiative to dig up an academic paper at UCLA written by Barack Obama’s father. The Politico then e-mailed Ransom requesting that he send them the full document — after which, it promoted a front-page story on its website touting the find while trashing Ransom. The thanks you get.
Veteran investigative reporter Ken Timmerman did yeomen’s work on Barack Obama’s credit card donation fraud.
Ace of Spades, 24Ahead, Power Line, and Mark Steyn (more) followed up with more original reporting on the issue.
NRO’s Stanley Kurtz was a one-man reporting machine on all things Obama, Ayers, ACORN, and Annenberg. Just a small sample: here, here, and here. Kurtz’s full NRO archive is here.
NRO’s Byron York also did extensive original campaign reporting, including this excellent piece exposing the truth about Obama’s sex-ed bill and fact-checking the liberal fact-checkers.
Several blogs did enterprising work on Obama’s proposal to ban guns within 5 miles of schools: Arms and the Law, Volokh Conspiracy and Outrageous Malfunction (here and here) broke the story.
Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek published numerous investigative reports on Obama’s abortion extremism in the Illinois legislature — providing the scrutiny and coverage the rest of the MSM wouldn’t provide. See here and here and here, for a sample. Stanek also provided first-hand background about race-baiting Rev. Michael Pfleger and Obama’s disingenuous claim of surprise at his rhetoric.
Another pro-life journalist and young new media pioneer, Lila Rose with Live Action Films, exposed several cases of Planned Parenthood predation this year — leading to suspensions and raised public awareness of the bigoted, money-grubbers in the abortion industry funded with your tax dollars.
More young new media pioneers at Palestra.net, a partner with Fox News, did top-notch investigative work on voter fraud in Ohio and across the country, leading to government action. And, of course, we are forever grateful to Palestra’s Shelby Holliday for introducing us to the unforgettable and eternally useful phrase, “thug thizzle.”
NakedEmperorNews provided archival video research on YouTube spotlighting Obama’s statements on redistributing wealth and bankrupting the coal industry, as well as a damning clip reel of Democrats covering the fannies of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Bill Collier at #dontgo reported on the Big Wind ties between Nancy Pelosi and T. Boone Pickens.
The invaluable Babalu blog and other Cuban freedom bloggers spread the word about Castro’s crushing of Internet dissent.
My colleague Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, whose original reporting on the Canadian Adscam scandal brought down the liberal government in 2005, provided original investigative coverage of the Minnesota recount (see here and here); on-the-ground coverage from the RNCC; and numerous interviews with newsmakers like this one with Afghan ambassador Said Jawad. Hot Air’s Allahpundit was ahead of the curve on countless stories, including Geert Wilders’ Fitna (see here, here and here ).
At this site, I provided readers with many original reports and exclusives, including:
*The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking;
*A special report on the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters and a related Document drop: Unclassified memo warns military personnel of anti-war threats to recruiters, Army installations/facilities;
*The rest of the story behind the DHS decision to lay off Obama’s illegal alien auntie;
*Presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill’s journalistic conflict of interest;
*Reports and documents illuminating Barack Obama’s bully tactics (here) and related left-wing efforts by a Move On spin-off, Accountable America, to intimidate GOP donors (here , here, and here);
*A special report on the left-wing mortgage counseling racket and ongoing coverage of open borders and the mortgage mess;
*The story behind Change.gov;
*The story behind the heckling of AG Michael Mukasey;
*Investigations of John McCain’s open-borders adviser Juan Hernandez (see also this video compilation by Digger’s Realm) and his open-borders, eco-radical billionaire campaign co-chair Jerry Perenchio;
*And the UAW’s gold-plated golf course and bottomless money pit.
This is by no means a comprehensive list. I did not, for example, include the priceless work of milbloggers, many of whom are conservative, but who prefer not to define themselves along partisan lines. I hope other conservative bloggers who have published original reporting will e-mail me with other examples (which I’ll add to this post) or track back with links to their own work over the past year. But these should be enough to dispel the persistent myth that the right doesn’t “do journalism.” Not every post is front-page news. Neither is much of the “news” that gets published in the dead-tree media or on the left side of the blogosphere.
The “skills” that some clueless critics believe are lacking on the right are, in fact, plentiful. And as this post shows, the investigative work of conservative bloggers has been high-quality enough for MSM outlets to grudgingly cite, recycle, or appropriate without acknowledgment.
A full and fair accounting of conservative blog journalism, you see, doesn’t fit the narrative.
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More for the list:
MM.com friend and guest-blogger See-Dubya’s January 2008 post: More on the Gitmo lawyers’ shady Wahhabist backers. And more Gitmo lawyer research here and here.
More Obama donor credit card fraud from Pajamas Media and Pamela Geller.
Commenter Mookie points to Debbie Schlussel’s investigative work on ICE official Sandy Todaro.
Steve Gilbert at Sweetness & Light was ahead of the curve on Jeremiah Wright and Obama’s empathy for 9/11 terrorists.
Founding Bloggers Andrew Marcus and Jim Hoft did tons of on-the-ground reporting including convention blog coverage and video reporting. Jim also moved the story of the LA Times and the Khalid Rashidi tape.
And more:
The Jawa Report, which I mentioned above, also led an excellent collaborative effort to unmask an Obama Astroturfer on YouTube who spread lies about Sarah Palin’s purported ties to the Alaska Independence Party.
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Update: As I expected, the liberal response has been to cherry-pick a single example with which they disagree and ignore the copious examples I’ve compiled.
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Without conservative blog posting there would have been no critical, investigating reporting of Obama. None. That achievement alone makes their work valuable beyond words but as MM notes, it is only a small part of their contributions.
The best of the conservative bloggers are the greatest of our hopes for a return to the Republic.
The problem with the mainstream media is that they follow the dictum of “If a tree (news story) fell (was reported on) in a forest (the blogosphere) would there be anyone (a member of the MSM) to hear it?”.
The MSM, including Fox News, are in most places more like snobs/propagandists than they are reporters.
Thank you, Michelle, for this enumeration … had Michael and/or Matthew been as attuned to the blogosphere as they would have us believe – it’s clear that they wouldn’t have made such accusation – but tis the way the ball bounces.
Funny, we can’t bring ourselves to criticize or even deal with Liberals as they should be dealt with because we want to take the high road. However, when it comes to dealing with those on our own side – we do so in such a careless, uneducated manner. We’ve got a lot of work to do; conservatives attacking fellow conservatives is not going to get the job done.
Debbie Schlussel has done some amazing work this year, especially regarding Sandy Todaro.
Sounds like Mr Goldfarb is tiptoeing past the graveyard while whistling in the dark.
Matthew Yglesias? He’s a talentless partisan hack! Who gives a crap what someone like him thinks?
Just another way to discredit the work they are unwilling or unable to do….c’mon, did any of the people you cited actually go to Columbia??? I thought so…hardly a “real” journalist in the bunch……
Who gives a crap what
someone like himhe thinks?No offense, MM, But I don’t read your ite as much for your opinion as I do for the scoops.
HOwever, with tongue in cheek, I must say that unless the right can come up with stories like Palin’s baby/grandbaby and Joe-The-Plumber’s deal relative in Cincinnati, the left will never accept you and your work.
What I really want to say has two words. First word starts with an F. Second word is them. But I value my membership!
It’s almost a waste of your talent and energy to respond to such idiocy.
Great round-up, MIchelle!
I’ve bookmarked it to pull out when needed.
Amazing recap.
I would add one other blogger who has done yeoman’s work on Obama – Trevor Loudon of New Zeal.
His website is a unbelievably in-depth virtual library on Chicago pols and their far left history and associations, and I’m quite certain that he broke the Obama/New Party story.
Call it what you will – “partisan reporting” or “advocacy journalism” or “promoting your agenda by lying” – it’s all Yellow Journalism no matter which side does it.
The last thing the world needs is an increase in this dreck. What’s needed is a boost for fair and impartial reporting across the board.
I’ll be over here, not holding my breath.
Michelle is smokin’ tonight! Love the round-up of accomplishments.
The dead tree news is past tense. Only thing it’s good for is lining pet cages or rolling up to burn as logs.
The MSM is now lurking and combing websites for scoops and to discuss what people are saying out loud, and thinking to themselves. It’s funny the number of stories I’ve seen online that end up 3-4 days later being “breaking news”!!! with the ribbon at the bottom to prove it’s just in.
If either media had any sense they’d hit the tip jar on the better sights or silently contribute to keep them alive. That’s the future, and people are simply too busy to either devote a morning to having coffee and reading the newspaper, or are too busy to sit through the dinner hour watching TV for their news. The beauty of the net is that if you write something that’s totally off base/slanted/skewed/or distorted – there is going to be a gazillion others that write a rebuttal.
Good job covering a few of the high points of last year. As you say, there were many more examples of Conservative bloggers “breaking” the news on issues that matter.
The one trait of the MSM that does stand out in my mind (beside the plagiarism issues that plague them) is their ability to take legitimate news stories and just bury them or twist them to further the left’s political ambitions.
There is one other site I want to make people aware of, that does reporting and stories on the local level also called Red County.
I am a contributor to that site in interest of full disclosure.
Nice list and I am proud to say I had already seen most of those stories. More than likely because they were linked to from here or Hotair. And I just do not see how the MSM can not acknowledge or link to a source when they obviously are getting stories from blogs. I would feel so guilty.
I nominate myself for this post at JYB. Just made it under the wire.
From here at Michelle’s site, I think this was news. As was this.
The problem that I and a lot of conservative bloggers and diggers ran into is that we would break news, and nobody would care.
Thanks again Michelle for reminding me why I perfer to get my news from the fact based new media over the lies and propoganda of the dying MSM.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
I know a lefty. He thinks we are all a bunch of kooks for critizing duh1. He thinks duh1 is an honest guy. It’s just coincidence everybody around duh1 is corrupt. Besides, duh1 is better than Bush.
That’s the level duhleft operates at.
Soon we will be in one of those Commiefornia lottery “money machines”. Billions of $$$ will be swirling around in the air and it is YOUR job to grab as much as you can before the music stops.
I’m grabbing a gubberment job at a military base and am going to ride it ’till retirement in ten years. Lifetime medical after five years. You’d be a sucker to leave them taxpayers with their money.
Yee Haw!
Of course they have to say this. If they acknowledged that bloggers on the right actually are reporting the news, then they are essentially admitting that they aren’t doing their own jobs. I see this as just another episode of projecting from the left.
Great post Michelle. This page and all the corresponding links should be emailed to all the MSM outlets with the following question and request.
“How was it that you did not report on all this?”
“Please cancel my subscription post haste”
Michelle,
As far as I am concerned, your best contribution so far was the publication of the citations to the problematic portions of the proposed immigration law.
I really wanted to see some specific amendments proposed, but I suppose that was too much to ask.
Thank you Michelle for spelling it out to any doubters. I appreciate the news I get from the blogs especially since I do not have the MSM coming in via TV in our house.
Keep on doing what you do in 2009.
OK, Michelle, except for THOSE stories what have conservative blogger done!
/sarc off
I know a few…same way, they are just baffled. There are ~52 million of them I guess so we all should no more than one mb.
That actually sounds like a good plan and I wondered about it recently as well. I’m not sure they would let me though…;-)
Agreed, but your quick list helps illustrate how hollow the world of “mainstream” journalism would be if responsible bloggers (like yourself) didn’t exist.
I rely upon Michelle Malkin Dot Com for information that I know I won’t see, either chastised or conceded with, in the liberal media until days, weeks or even months later.
MM is a valuable source who provides a valuable service. My hat tips towards you my friend. Keep on keeping it up.
I would add reporting the truth about the following items and helping get them defeated and exposing the false “victims” presented by the left, especially Pelosi and Reid:
Shamnesty
DREAM Act
S-CHIP
Dodd, Franks, Fannie and Freddie
etc., etc., etc.
And 2 very important things you did personally Michelle …
1. Your trips to Iraq and the reports you filed from there … as well as all the others that have kept the truth coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan …
2. The MAF internet telethon with Melanie Morgan that raised money for care packages for the troops …
Actions … not idle words … Thanks again for all you do Michelle …
the only real news comes out of blogs anymore The MS Press does editorial as news at least we highlight when we add our own opnion.
Like this juicy tidbit http://thecitytroll.blogspot.com/2009/01/article-that-raises-few-questions.html
you can see what is purely my Opinion unlike the reporters
Great review on conservative blogging from the past to debunk the Weekly Standard; Keep up the great work Michelle; 2009 is a pivotal year for all conservatives to step up, speak out, and remain engaged; Let’s Roll, not roll over; BTW, I gave up on the Weekly Standard long ago after Kristol and Barnes revealed themselves as advocates for illegal aliens; They are traitors to the constitution and the founding fathers, no more, no less.
Michell: this is more than a little interesting.
Could it be that the same people who are denigrating Internet blogging as a viable reporting venue are also the ones who would have the Fairness Doctrine reinstalled targeting Bloggers as well as Talk Radio?
My guess is they are one and the same. I find it incredible that anyone in todays Mainstream Media can with a straight face claim journalistic superiority over any venue. The single noteworthy fact of the MSM is its unbending adherence to the “party line”
In our world we call it PC.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
Sorry MICHELLE
Speaking of Leftist “original” reporting…recall the Huffington Post credentialled Joe Biden’s former campaign staffers and then sent them to a McCain event and staged the C*&% question and then claimed it was a bystander “minister” who asked the question and then the minister was revealed as a fraud.
And speaking of “skilzzzzz to do the job”, remember when the original reporting left blogs used their mad skillz to uncover that Email Coptix conspiracy complete with Sleestak’s in the TV?
Yeah, the lefts awesome “skill to do the job.”
Michelle Malkin and other conservative internet news bloggers provided the best coverage last year. Very good information also came from “right wing” talk radio.
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The Drudge Report also provides a lot of good information.
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Yoani Sanchez of GENERACIONY provides an honest look at how communism continues to fail the Cuban people.
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The Left Wing Media (not MSM) needs to dry up and blow away–they no longer deserve to be called news organizations. They are liberal party supporting hacks. Their economic woes will soon remove them from the scene–barring bailouts.
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John Bibb
Thank you, Michelle, for the listing of stories we never would have seen reported if it were not for the conservative bloggers.
This is as much a recognition of the conservative bloggers as it is an indictment of the liberal MSM and bloggers.
And the NYTimes wonders why it’s stock is dropping like a lead balloon?
Whuf! As a blogger who recently composed his own best of the year of 2008, I want to congratulate you on a tough post to assemble.
And last year was a great year for blogging on the right, and thanks to you Michelle for bringing great stories to our attention!
Michelle — it occurs to me that you might want to remind master Matthew of that fabulous original reporting from a multitude of blogs lefty Huffpo outright STOLD.
Is this the left skills he speaks of? Plagiarism?
I had to think back and count the months since I watched TV to get the news. I believe it stopped early last fall, right after the conventions. I couldn’t stomach the blatant bias anymore. Other than skimming my (very) local paper for the obits and letters, I get all my breaking news from the internet; mainly blogs.
Keep up the good work, everybody! As the former wife of a newspaperman, it saddens me to see the depths to which the fourth estate has sunk. I pray that the bailout bunch keeps the taxpayers money away from these yellow journalists. Just like the late William Randolph Hearst, the current mob have no shame.
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie!
Thank God for pointing this out !!!
Here I thought I was the only one who heard Hillary confront Barak in one of the debates telling everyone about Hamas posting sermons in the bulletins of Barak’s church.
Of course, the silence from everyone, including FNC, was deafening, even when I sent emails to Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, etc.
I am SO glad that there were bloggers who went where nobody else has the backbone to go and post what nobody wants found.
All Hail the bloggers!
All the integrity the news media lost had to go somewhere and the bloggers got it.
This is why my FIRST place for the daily news is MichelleMalkin.com, followed by HotAir.com, then NationalReviewOnline and by the time I’m done, it’s 12noon and Rush Limbaugh’s webcast.
In the evening, I turn on FOX to see if they are aware of what you bloggers are already reporting.
And then the newspapers wonder why their circulation is down.
Maybe the reporters should check the REAL sources of information listed above and get out from behind the curve.
jes’ sayin’
That’s all well and good, but…um…er…you didn’t cite Reuters or the AP!
Regards,
The MSM
It’s been a good year for conservative bloggers, but there is a long way to go yet. There are still too many people who get their news only from the nightly “news” and the 3 left-wing stations (ABC, NBC, CBS). I even know 2 people who only get their news from “The View” and Oprah. They’re lost and hopeless. MSM is interested in only pushing their own views, not the news. But that’s been true since newspapers first were printed. If they have to print a story they don’t like, it’s on page 10, in a corner. So, keep up the good work. Hopefully, in 2009, new cracks will appear in the left’s plan to control the population.
The average touchy-feely brain-dead leftist “journalist” (and even some left-leaning stooges “on the right”) considers the dissemination of fiction, hyperbole, and crazed Truffer rants as a higher calling. When conservatives (and sometimes even liberals) tell the truth, it is a serious threat to their world view, and it must be stopped.
I can’t tell you how grateful I am for your sites, Michelle, and for so many of the sites you’ve listed here.
Aw, c’mon! It’s not original or balanced if it’s the truth about liberals.
Thanks Michelle.
Good to see Debbie made the list. I bust her chops but she does one heckofva job.
We still miss ya C-W!
I have to add that the expose that Rusty Shackleford did on the Alaskan Independence party hit job on Sarah Palin over at the Jawa Report (www.mypetjawa.mu.nu)
that made E. Winner close out his you tube account and go into a sort of self exile.. (Winner was some advertising douche for Obama..)
meant to add..
Good list overall..
nice job on the compilation..
And with this one act, The Politico has ensured that they will NEVER be in on another Conservative blogger scoop for the rest of time. Or, they shouldn’t be.
Seriously, Conservative bloggers need to be much fiercer in protecting their scoops. While it’s good to be carried in the DTM (Dead Tree Media) and the MSM, it is better to both verbally and legally protect your scoops. This means that there will have to be a few defensive lawsuits or threats of lawsuits.
The MSM doesn’t have to like us, but they should be MADE to respect us.
One thing I have noticed is that Leftists are SO biased that they can’t recognize their bias. Or, if the might recognize it, they don’t care because the are “always right.”
Leftists believe Conservatives and espcially Conservative Christians are ignorant, illiterate and incapable of thought. Basically, if a Conservative or Conservative Christian says it, it MUST be wrong because of the source.
I have been in forums where I would be called an idiot for stating that the speed of light in a vacuum was 299,792,458 m/s or that Pi was 3.14159265! ANYTHING I SAID HAD TO BE WRONG BECAUSE I WAS A CONSERVATIVE.
The vast majority of Leftists take it as an article of faith that Conservatives are idiots who lack any and all skills or abilities. According to them Conservatives are racisit, bigoted, closed-minded, intolerant morons incapable of thought. And any source we quote to the contrary is unacceptable because we quote it.
Coulter’s book about arguing with Liberals was spot-on! You can’t win, you can’t break even and you can’t quit! Arguing with them is pointless.
Michelle, Your post was extremely long today; beaucoup evidence to support your contention. Unfortunately, the MSM has long held itself as the official gatekeeper of everything that is ‘truly’ important. So most of these stories didn’t get that much visibility because of their relative unimportance to things like Sarah Palin’s and Michelle Obama’s wardrobes. News has become a trendy commodity and a niche market, so you have to market it wisely if you’re going to make it in the business. But then, why is the “fishwrap of record” losing so much business? Is it because of it’s Pravda-esque coverage? Perhaps they should merge with Congressional Times Journal, along the lines of the big three automakeovers morphing into Congressional Motors (H/T Iowahawk). BTW, I go directly to your site, Hot Air, and many of the sites mentioned, for news, and everywhere else when linked.
The internet needs conservatives blogging the way American needs George Bush for a 3rd term.
This is why our constitutional republic is in dire jeopardy. The Left now controls the entire system – from public education, government, the federal judiciary, and public news/press communication. It is no wonder views, opinion and legitimate thought critical of the world Socialist dogma are virtually absent from the marketplace of ideas. And it is no wonder their infection has seeped into the Web as well. There is a protracted, concerted effort on the part of the Left to suppress all opposition and thought contrary to Socialist/”Progressive” orthodoxy.
As an aside: How ironic that the current head of the Euro Union exposes the carbon credit global warming racket for what it is. The UN can’t address Rwanda, Darfur, and Somali pirates. How is it they can save the world from global warming? Between that and Obama’s “vital” economic stimulus package he’s pimping, I’ve had all I can stand of World Socialism and their brand of social justice. Leftist blogs shill for this crap constantly and they will never apologize for being part of this gigantic mafia-style government protection racket.
Thanks for the hard work in putting together this concise compilation of conservative web sites and bloggers. This is where I primarily get my information because of the indepth work that these bloggers do. I no longer read anything in the MSM or watch television news. As is shown by the biggest troll putz (Ilovemycountry) (what a misnomer by the way for a liberal)who throws out a non-substantive comment. He ASSumes it is a worthy and important fact when it says nothing at all. Thanks for the hard work of bloggers who do their homework–we appreciate it.
I’m with Wearyman, especially when it comes to hot-linking. Bloggers are already ahead of the MSM when it comes to using new media, but they need to learn the codes that prevent others from hot-linking or lifting text.
I’ve seen the NYT site change story text and headlines after publishing to the site… they apparently have no clue how Google Cache or the Wayback Machine works. It shouldn’t be at all difficult to set up obstacles that these obsolete paper-pushers can’t overcome.
So, we are in agreement, we need Bush for a third term. Hate free speech much? Oh, only conservative views and free speech.
Please mention as well the three years of work that I have done exposing the giant Mecca oriented crescent that the Park Service wants to plant on the Flight 93 crash site.
Tom Burnett Sr. (father of Flight 93 hero Tom Jr.) and I travelled to Somerset PA in August to protest the numerous Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the crescent design. Dozens of news articles have covered out protests, but not you, which is very strange, given your central role in protesting the original Crescent of Embrace design.
The only change in the so called “redesign” was to add an extra curve of trees that, according to the Park Service’s own website, represents a broken off part of the circle. The unbroken part of the circle, what symbolically remains standing in the wake of 9/11, is still a giant Islamic shaped crescent, still pointing to Mecca.
If you protested that giant crescent when it was first unveiled in September 2005, how can you be okay with it today?
Hey Soap Box,
This isn’t about free speech – all of you folks are missing the point: no one in the world respects American conservatives.
I wish you people left the hills of West Virginia once in a while to see how thinking people view the American right wing.
She sure told you, Soap. A sweeping generalization followed closely by a stereotype (including the phrase “you people”).
The inference, apparently, is that anything that is not left wing should be silenced lest the European elites not like us.
If no one cares, then why worry about conservative blogs?
No no no no no!
The whole point is it has to be true because the MSM and the left say it is!
Only when you truly understand this basic fact can you understand that the “real reporting” from the Conservative bloggers is not really what you think it is.
Remember, it’s not whether it is true or not, it is how many people you can convince to believe it that makes it a fact.