Posted on 08/14/2009 6:01:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
Conservatives take on liberals in blogosphere
DAN NEPHIN
Aug. 14
PITTSBURGH -- Call this city blogger central. Two grassroots groups - one left leaning, the other right leaning - are holding their annual conferences here and teaching members how to wield clout online.
On the left is Netroots Nation, which has been credited in part with helping usher President Barack Obama into office. On the right is RightOnline, a project of the conservative Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
The Netroots Nation conference is much larger, at about 1,800 people, and lasts four days. RightOnline has about 700 people and lasts two days.
Erik Telford, executive director of RightOnline, concedes the left has been better about using blogging and social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
"I think for the past few years, they (the left) have had an advantage, but the tables are turning and rapidly so," he said. "The Internet is a great place for people to turn when they want to get involved. And people really want to get involved when they're locked out of power."
Telford pointed to the right's activism on "Tea Party" demonstrations across the country against stimulus spending and town hall meetings on health care as examples.
Conservative leaders were slow to embrace online activism, he said.
"But the fact of the matter is, the paradigm has flipped completely upside down. And we can either embrace it and succeed, or we can remain in denial about it at our own peril," Telford said.
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Forget the Blogosphere. I have personally asked God to stop Obama. He will.
RightOnline ???
OK, I wish them well...but I’m an activist and have never heard of them....
I am praying frequently, but God helps he who helps himself. We need both prayer, and lots of it, and we must take action to refute the left.
I have never been failed by him and he will put down this President??? Who uses a book..Rules for Radicals..Dedicated to LUCIFER. Hey..Have faith.
hasnt Pittsburgh suffered enough? We have the G20 summit coming here, bringing with it thousands of unwashed protesters throwing urine filled pop bottles at police and attacking starbucks. And to add insult to injury, we have the Pirates who got thier gonads kicked by the cubs. But it was a squeaker, with the Cubs winning 17 to 2.
will the pain ever end??????
It will work. Watch and learn.
A few weeks later the publisher of the Bee at the time, Ms Heaphy, was booed off the stage at a local university as she assailed the Bush Administration for being mean to accused terrorists. That led to the Bee's daily attacks on certain members of the public (Bush supporters) for being too uneducated to understand complex issues.
If it's the same Bee the employee will find plenty of reasons to fault the visitors to the conservative web page.
“I have personally asked God to stop Obama”
Me too.. except that I’ve also been asking that Barry be exposed, to his base, for who he truely is.
You have got it. Have faith. His base is not worth your prayer except for forgivnness or awareness. God will not fail us. He never will .
Take confort, both the Steelers and the Pengruns won their respected championships.
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