One of the real pleasures of meeting bloggers at CPAC was discovering new bloggers and sites that you never read before. Dwayne Lester of All American Blog was one of those new discoveries for me.
If you have not read him you are in for a treat.
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Datechguy’s Field guide to CPAC Bloggers: Dwayne Lester
Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in special eventsTags: blogs, cpac, ronald reagan award, short interviews, tea parties
Meanwhile back in the land of coffee parties…
Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news, techTags: bad form, coffee parties, MSM, tea parties
William Jacobson digs into the background and finds weird and wonderful things. And Stacy has fun with initials.
And as it continues the Blogfather Glenn Reynolds in addition to scooping Little Miss Attila shows that like Pepperidge Farm, the internet remembers.
I haven’t heard anyone mimic my Air America take yet, but we could always make book on it. It all depends on how much money Soros and company want to spend to keep it alive.
Can anybody tell me what’s wrong with this article…
Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: 2010 elections, abortion, feminism, little miss attila, Palin derangement syndrome, still angry left
…from the daily beast today?
Why Yes, a certain Hat and pearl wearing rule 5 shattering lady can, her final conclusion?
Linda Hirshman is right up there with Frank Rich in her insightful insightfulness.
That’s gonna leave a mark. If there is anything I would add it is the obsession on the pro life credentials. It is the same obsession that I saw on Morning Joe today, an attempt to marginalize people due to their unwillingness to make others feel comfortable about killing their inconvenient children.
Yes that is very blunt, but hey sometimes it is necessary to be blunt.
This whole article is Palin Derangement Syndrome by Proxy.
Coffee Party, Air America Redux
Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: coffee parties, instalanche, media malpractice, MSM, reality, shameless blogwhoring, tea parties
I’m sure there are more than a few tea party types who are a tad annoyed at the NYT and Washington Post coverage of the “Coffee parties”
it took the two biggest papers in America less than a week after the new site started posting in earnest to catch lefty grassroots Coffee Party fee-vah. (Their Facebook page has been up since last month.) Fancy that.
The actual Times story is here, I would suggest that we Tea Party types should be laughing very hard.
First of all, we are supposed to be upset that the New York Times and the Washington Post treat liberals differently than conservatives? They have been doing it forever. I’m certainly not going to get my knickers in an uproar over that. I’ll mention that is it media bias but all I can do is smile.
Because I remember when they gave that same coverage to Air America rollout. Every network, every morning show, every talk show it was painted as the alternative etc etc etc.
The only result of this is going to be a greater marginalization of the left wing media. It is very easy to run into someone who has attended a tea party. They are your neighbors.
When you are drawing 15 people and it is a “better turnout than expected” you are basically a modern version of the people’s front of Judea.
When they paint it as something it is not people will know it, they are much more experienced in this matter. The only way these guys are going to draw folks are to pay them.
It took less than a decade for it to fall apart. It will be fun watch that happen again.
Update: Weird and wonderful developments are happening.
Update 2: Glenn notices the Air America reference in Bill Jacobson’s comments a mere 4 hours after I made it the subject of my post. Apparently like Miss Attila and Stacy I am instalance deficient Then again I’ve already had more instalances this year then I did all of last year. And that’s still two instalances more than a certain little green blogger has managed since Aug 09.
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