1:10 PM Introduction. I will summarize: Blogs are good. Bush is bad. (Starting to wonder if people know he’s not running this time.) 1:11 PM Matt Bai. “Not used to so much appreciation from the blogs.” Applause, laughter: “He’s right, we’re totally hysterical, insecure, finicky rage-aholics! Funny! Ha-ha!” 1:12 PM Applause for Gravel, then so [...]
Yesterday I was on a panel at the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago entitled “Blogs and the MSM: From Clash to Civilization”. Also on the panel were Glen Greenwald of Unclaimed Territory/Salon.com, Mike Allen of Politico and Jill Filipovic of Feministe. Ari Melber of The Nation and Huffington Post moderated the panel. I thought it was [...]
12:11 PM They’ve been checking the mics for thirty minutes. Totally packed room and am personally in desperate need of Diet Coke. If you are here, and have Diet Coke, please find me. 12:12 PM Blog “grand poobah” Peter Daou announces that when HRC “found out about the mix-up” she “immediately told her staff: Rearrange [...]
This is a terrific story in the Washington Post about the difficulties of the U.S. military’s new tribal strategy. One sheik says he wants to fight Al Qaeda and gets a money deal from the U.S…A second sheik says, no, the first sheik was just pretending. He gets a money deal, too, and says he’s [...]
