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  • Big Media's High-Water Mark [Deep Throat Revives Memories of the Liberals' Heyday]

    06/02/2005 2:59:07 PM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 27 replies · 837+ views
    Newsday ^ | June 2, 2005 | James P. Pinkerton
    For the major media, Watergate was the "good war," in which purely heroic reporters brought down the thoroughly villainous Richard Nixon. So the belated revelation that W. Mark Felt was Deep Throat is being cheered by the press establishment - even if those cheers sound a bit like last gasps. Not surprisingly, The Washington Post ran seven self-back-patting articles yesterday, including two on the front page. But others in the Old Media joined in, too: Felt-is-"Throat" led all three nightly broadcast news shows and filled up countless other news holes. For the mostly liberal MSM - mainstream media - the...
  • FEC treads into sticky web of political blogs

    05/31/2005 9:25:27 AM PDT · by conservativecorner · 32 replies · 723+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | May 31, 2005 | Dawn Withers
    <p>Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online fundraising and political ads, though bloggers who don't take money from political groups would not be affected.</p> <p>Draft rules from the Federal Election Commission, which enforces campaign finance laws, would require that paid political advertisements on the Internet declare who funded the ad, as television spots do.</p>
  • Bless Me, Blog, for I've Sinned

    05/30/2005 7:47:17 PM PDT · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 3 replies · 269+ views
    NY Times ^ | 5/31/05 | Sarah Boxer
    Online confessors are like flashers. They exhibit themselves anonymously and publicly, with little consideration for you, the audience. Browse some of the confessionals on the Web: grouphug.us (a simple log), notproud.com (organized by deadly sin) or dailyconfession.com (where you can barely find the confessions for all the promotional stuff). You can see for yourself. One online confessional, though, breaks the mold. At PostSecret, found at postsecret.blogspot.com, the confessions are consistently engaging, original and well told. How come? The Web site gives people simple instructions. Mail your secret anonymously on one side of a 4-by-6-inch postcard that you make yourself. That...
  • Blog Entry Leads Police To Killer

    05/25/2005 6:41:42 PM PDT · by jsk10 · 2 replies · 260+ views
    nydailynews ^ | John K.
    A doomed Queens man's chilling computer entry led cops to a suspect who allegedly robbed and killed the victim and his sister to finance a return to China, police said yesterday. Jin Lin, 23, was charged with first-degree murder yesterday in the bloody slayings of Sharon and Simon Ng in their Kew Gardens Hills apartment Thursday, officials said. Cops zeroed in on Lin, who once dated the woman, because Ng typed a journal entry into his computer fingering his sister's ex-boyfriend as the suspect, police said. "He wrote that he was wondering why Lin was there and wished he would...
  • We must take America back.

    05/25/2005 5:01:01 PM PDT · by MississippyMuddy · 21 replies · 720+ views
    MosqueWatch ^ | 5-25-05 | Jeff
    The reason this site is up and running , is because I believe in the power of the voice of the people of this great land we live in. There does come a time, when the people must act in order to preserve this great land. It is our duty as Americans to stand up to the enemies of America, be it foreign or domestic.
  • SMU blogger unmasked, unemployed

    05/15/2005 5:06:28 PM PDT · by rdb3 · 36 replies · 2,169+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | 15 MAY 2005 | COLLEEN McCAIN NELSON
    When an anonymous professor launched a brutally candid Web site, some SMU students thought the resemblance to their school was striking – and offensive. The "Phantom Professor" blog dished about epidemic eating disorders and wealthy students looking for a "Mrs." degree. The author dubbed girls in $500 sandals toting $1,500 handbags "the Ashleys" and called a handsome male colleague "Hot Pockets."
  • Dennis Prager: Campus Barbarians

    05/15/2005 12:18:20 PM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 39 replies · 1,690+ views
    Huffington Post ^ | 05.13.2005 | Dennis Prager
    Check out the accompanying article by Ajai Raj, a sophomore at the University of Texas who publicly kept yelling obscenities during Ann Coulter’s speech and then publicly asked her, “You say that you believe in the sanctity of marriage, how do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but f--- his wife up the ass?” Just about a week earlier a leftist publicly asked Justice Antonin Scalia if he engaged in anal sex with his wife (who was present). These symbolize to me one of the most profound differences between the Left and the Right. I do not...
  • Blogging, as in Slogging

    05/15/2005 1:52:10 AM PDT · by rdb3 · 7 replies · 312+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 15 MAY 2005 | DAVID GREENBERG
    May 15, 2005 Blogging, as in Slogging By DAVID GREENBERG "YOU should have a blog."Apparently I push my opinions on my friends rather aggressively, because I often hear this remark.Last week, I had my chance. My wife and I agreed to be "guest bloggers" - the online equivalent of what David Brenner used to do for Johnny Carson - for Dan Drezner, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, who runs a popular libertarian-conservative blog, DanielDrezner.com. How hard could blogging be? You roll out of bed, turn on your computer, scan the headlines, think up some clever analysis...
  • The blog that ate real journalism - (what Huffington's crash-and-burn debut really means!)

    05/12/2005 7:56:54 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 18 replies · 974+ views
    TOWNHALL.COM ^ | MAY 11, 2005 | CAL THOMAS
    The Huffington Post, an Internet blog that debuted May 9 after a campaign that would have delighted P.T. Barnum, makes me nostalgic for the good old days of journalism. It isn't that its founder, Arianna Huffington (who named it for herself in true Hollywood "enough about me, not what do YOU think about me" fashion) doesn't have every right to join the increasingly clogged blog superhighway. Rather, this blog has an agenda and speaks mostly to people who already believe what most of its writers say. In The Huffington Post, the musical genius Quincy Jones explains that Michael Jackson's problem...
  • Hugh Hewitt: A Selective Adherence to Tradition (judges, the judiciary and impeachment)

    05/12/2005 3:42:08 PM PDT · by ajolympian2004 · 1 replies · 472+ views
    World Net Daily column ^ | May 12th, 2005 | Hugh Hewitt
    A Selective Adherence to Tradition - Why is it that when it comes to the judiciary, some traditions matter more than others? by Hugh Hewitt 05/12/2005 12:00:00 AM WHEN THE WORD "IMPEACHMENT" was uttered in March and April as an option for dealing with renegade judges, the guardians of conventional wisdom were quick to denounce "ideologues," who, in the words of the New York Times editorialists, "are trying to bully judges into following their political line." The Washington Post's editors agreed: "It is essential that the judges who stood up to Congress now receive ample support--so that judges will feel...
  • Blogs' advocacy group takes lead in framing Social Security

    05/10/2005 11:37:48 PM PDT · by strategofr · 3 replies · 154+ views
    blogpac.org ^ | John Byrne
    ...Blogs have become an increasingly potent force in politics. Eight million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58 percent in 2004 and now stands at more than a quarter of Internet users, according to the Pew Internet research center. "We have the ability as scrappy online warriors to direct a higher percentage of our money and receive greater value for each dollar that we spend," says blogPAC architect and MyDD blogger Jerome Armstrong. To start, the group directed and placed several online video ads. While campaigns poured money into television, blogPAC ran web ads in a...
  • Arianna’s Blog Blows: Will This Failure Finally Finish Her?

    05/09/2005 2:49:25 PM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 72 replies · 2,591+ views
    LA Weekly ^ | MAY 13 - 18, 2005 | NIKKI FINKE
    Judging from today’s horrific debut of the humongously pre-hyped celebrity blog the Huffington Post, the Madonna of the mediapolitic world has gone one reinvention too many. She has now made an online ass of herself. What Arianna Huffington's bizarre guru-cult association, 180-degree conservative-to-liberal conversion, and failed run in the California gubernatorial-recall race couldn’t accomplish, her blog has now done: She is finally played out publicly. This Web-site venture is the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable, because of all the advance publicity touting its success as inevitable. Her blog is such a bomb that it’s the box-office equivalent of...
  • Does Wal Mart Mislead On What It Imports From China?

    05/07/2005 7:55:52 AM PDT · by superiorslots · 603 replies · 8,387+ views
    5-07-05 | Superiorslots
    Wal Mart says it imported about $18 billion in goods from China in 2003. The annual sales for that year by Wal Mart was approximately $250 billion dollars. However, when you walk through your local Wal Mart and look on the label of products in the store the majority of products say "Made in China". I went through my local Wal mart the other day and was surprised on what I found. Just about all the Black & Decker and Stanley tools were made in China. GE toasters, microwaves, and vacuum cleaners were all made in China. I looked at...
  • The Daily Iraqi Cheese Grader

    05/05/2005 12:39:18 PM PDT · by Responsibility1st · 4 replies · 231+ views
    From The Desk of Ted Mathis ^ | 05/05/2005 | Ted Mathis
    Are you sick and tired of reading about the Runaway Bride? And if you read about one more child being raped and muredered, are you gonna lose it? Well then, I have found what you've been looking for. Ted Mathis has had a few occasional glimpses of insight into a world that few Americans know about. Certainly the MSM will not report on this; but every once in awhile I read excerpts of what our soldiers are doing in Iraq and I stand amazed! OK, I'm not literally standing, but you know what I mean. In any event, I have...
  • Michelle Malkin: The Wonkette-ization of Laura Bush

    05/03/2005 2:10:11 PM PDT · by EveningStar · 1,200 replies · 18,613+ views
    Michelle Malkin ^ | May 3, 2005 | Michelle Malkin
    Most of Mrs. Bush's humor at the correspondents' dinner was just right: Edgy but not over the edge. But I think the stripper and horse jokes were totally beneath her. Just put it to the other-shoe test: If it were Teresa Heinz Kerry standing up on the dais telling the same jokes, the conservative commentariat would be buzzing for the rest of the year about what a tasteless skank she is.
  • Michelle Malkin: I'm No South Park Conservative

    05/03/2005 10:06:52 PM PDT · by Coastal · 234 replies · 4,139+ views
    The National Ledger ^ | May 4, 2005 | Michelle Malkin
    I'll get to First Lady Laura Bush's bawdy stand-up routine in a minute. But I want to highlight a related new book out about how young conservatives are shaking up the dominant liberal media culture. It's called "South Park Conservatives." My name is listed on the cover along with many other (mostly) right-leaning pundits, websites, and bloggers, but I must confess to having mixed feelings about the honor. The best-selling book's author, Brian C. Anderson of the Manhattan Institute, writes a fun, breezy survey documenting the rise of talk radio, FOX News, the Internet, conservative publishing, and college Republican activism....
  • The Hillary Clinton Accountablity Project (by Michelle Malkin)

    05/03/2005 9:43:13 PM PDT · by ajolympian2004 · 19 replies · 551+ views
    Michelle Malkin's blog ^ | May 3rd, 2005 | Michelle Malkin
    THE HILLARY CLINTON ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT By Michelle Malkin   ·   May 03, 2005 08:38 AM Peter Paul, the businessman whose allegations spurred a four-year FBI probe into an August 2000 celebrity fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton's first Senate campaign, is launching a new project today. Here's an e-mail I received about it last night, in which Paul expressed displeasure regarding this post, where I discussed all of Hillary's bagmen: Yes, I was coerced to become her biggest contributor by far, but when I discovered she didnt report my contribution in February, 2001, I immediately approached the FBI and the Justice Dept with...
  • (Vanity) Can you help out the conservative punk band "Attila and the Huns"?

    05/01/2005 11:16:41 PM PDT · by jeffo · 8 replies · 362+ views
    Hi, I am the Dad of "Attila and the Huns", a rock/punk band that has had numerous songs debut here on Free Republic (for instance, the Michael Moore skewering Hateful Lies and the post-election "nyah nyah" The Better Man Won. The band is one of 28 in the Orlando region picked to compete in a competition sponsored by Zippo Lighters... first prize includes an actual tour. Friends, if you have enjoyed these kids' work in the past, please go to their site (www.aath.net) and click on the banner for the Zippo Hot Tour. You'll have to register, but once you...
  • Huffington Invites Celebs to Join Blog [Huffington Alert]

    04/26/2005 2:48:01 PM PDT · by Zuben Elgenubi · 21 replies · 569+ views
    AP ^ | April 26, 2005 | Gary Gentile
    Apr 26, 10:14 AM EDTHuffington Invites Celebs to Join Blog By GARY GENTILEAP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Political commentator Arianna Huffington will launch a news and opinion Web site next month including blogs written by more than 200 celebrities and leaders such as retired journalist Walter Cronkite, writer David Mamet and billionaire Barry Diller, CEO of IAC InterActive Corp. "The two most interesting things happening online are the news and the blogosphere and what we're doing here is bringing them together," Huffington, a one-time candidate for California governor, told The Associated Press Monday.One feature of the site, called...
  • NYT: A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her ['The Huffington Post']

    04/24/2005 5:06:56 PM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 60 replies · 8,063+ views
    New York Times ^ | April 25, 2005 | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
    Get ready for the next level in the blogosphere. Arianna Huffington, the columnist and onetime candidate for governor of California, is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity collective. She has lined up more than 250 of what she calls "the most creative minds" in the country to write a group blog that will range over topics from politics and entertainment to sports and religion. It is essentially a nonstop virtual talk show that will be part of a Web site that will also serve up breaking news around the...