Melber did a nice job yesterday on MSNBC of helping the hapless souls of the mainstream media understand what those dirty frigging hippies of the netroots are bringing to the national discourse -- and sticking up for the anonymous wankers who want to diss their influence.
Atrios is doing a fundraiser for his blog today. If you can spare a few bucks to help out a great blogger, please do. He helped me out when I first started this C&L bloggy thing over three years ago when not too many people would ever link me up. They didn't get that "video thing." He did. I'll always be grateful.
Click the pic to go the the 2008 Bloggies)
We interrupt this blogging day with a little blogging awards news.
The Weblog awards are the oldest of the online awards I believe (2001) and are really very cool. Readers are exposed to some very interesting sites all over the world. Thanks to all the C&L readers who voted us in. I enjoy all the other political sites (except one) that are nominated for Best Political Blog, but if you can---throw a vote to C&L... that would be so kewl. (scroll down to find the category.)
Now back to our originally scheduled blogging....
Digby is one of the finest liberal writers that we have in the blogosphere or anywhere else for that matter and she's running a fundraiser.
I greatly value the freedom and independence that voluntary direct support from readers offers. It's an unusual model, but it works quite well for some, including me. So, if you like what I'm doing here, and if you have your credit cards out doing some last minute online shopping today, perhaps you could send a little stocking stuffer my way, via paypal, snail or amazon, all of which are available on the left column over there. And thanks, everybody, it's been a great ride.
She has become a great friend and someone that I meet from time to time for a hot cup of coffee at the Coffee Bean in Marina del Rey to discuss the world of politics. If you can---please donate a few bucks to her cause...or snail mail at:
Digby's Hullabaloo
2801 Ocean Park Blvd. Box 157
Santa Monica, Ca 90405
Dang, I didn't get a link...hehe...Josh has always been very kind to me...He posted this about C&L back on 11/09/05:
One of the most inspiring things about the blog phenomenon is the sheer multiplicity of different forms created within the basic genre -- even within the relatively small niche of blogs devoted to politics. You've got a site like CrooksandLiars.com, for instance, which in addition to a lot of conventional text blogging, provides this amazing service of hosting more or less instantly available video snippets of most all the happenings on the day's political news shows that people on the web are talking about.
With the hustle and bustle of a normal day of blogging---I don't remember if I ever thanked him...Notice how many sites are doing what we are? It's kind of rewarding to see...
Thanks Michael!
Arlen Parsa sent this audio in: "Michael Moore (who will be on Countdown Tuesday at 8PM ET) did a fundraiser interview for the progressive indy station KVMR (kvmr.org) in California last week. He mentioned C&L as a great alternative media site."
Moore: "Once people do have information, once their enlightened, and sometimes that has to start out with a Dixie Chick up on stage saying 'I don't believe what we're being told,' or 'I don't support the president of the United States in this'... That's the way change occurs... bit by bit, somebody tuned in while they were driving along. You know? Somebody goes down I-80, happened upon this Amy Goodman show.
Or somebody picked up The Nation, or In These Times, or somebody on the Internet came across Crooks & Liars, or any of a number of other sites, and slowly-- and this is the good thing about people--because they are now armed wit the information they begin to say 'hey, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, what? huh?' and before long that 70% that was [for] the war becomes 70% that are against the war and 70% against Mr Bush."
That's how it works....
Kevin Drum has a contest going on right now...You can vote for five and they are all worthy candidates.
This humble blog has been nominated in the "Best Political Blog," "Best Video Blogger," and "Best Blog Design" categories.
The word from the upstairs office to the C&L staff is, "Feh, we don't care about awards, we just keep on putting it out as often and as well as we can, and let the chips fall."
Sure, John. But hey, it's nice that folks want to say that they like what we do. Thanks much for the noms, much appreciated.
There are so many to choose from, but the winner goes to the "Confederate Yankee," for the incredibly lame, "Google Mocks Christ on Christmas Eve." Congratulations!
Jesus General brought this post to light which is my nomination for funniest post of the year. (This post is not an attack on religion or Christians-so please don't take it in that light.)
The winning post is about an idiotic attempt to link the phony war on Christmas with an equally asinine conspiracy theory by Google to make fun of Christians. Pajamas Media pay good cash to bring this type of content to their new venture so I would assume they are very pleased with the results.
Another CY commenter quickly explained how one could search Google and filter out the offensive material. (although I haven't tried it myself.) As most people have seen, it is fairly easy to manipulate the search results for a particular name or product on Google, but the CY seems oblivious to the obvious. It was very childish (and an offensive prank for some) to do for sure, but to CY it was an actual scheme:
"Some folks have made the argument that this is the result of Googlebombing or other SEO tricks. Others say that it is merely the result of Google's search programs. They would absolve Google of all responsibility.
I do not."
And there was Pamela from "Atlas Shruggs," commenting in the CY thread to top it off. She tried to sway the heart of Charles Johnson:
"Google must die
google jew.............that'll knock your socks off
Yeah yeah, I know they have no agenda but they run adsfor hamas and hizbollah but refuse LGF
status as a news source
Pamela"
(James Wolcott has a few more words to say about Pamela)
Was the CY hoping that Michelle Malkin would have picked it up and run with it? Congratulations once again.
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