Category: Center-Right AltMedia
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A Change Will Do Ya Good
I’d like to take a moment to talk a little more about the Senate Media Credentialing rules discussion from yesterday. First – thanks to the working group, who did the vast majority of the work. The group included (as noted elsewhere) David Brauer of the MinnPost, Michael Brodkorb (the Executive Assistant to the Majority Caucus,…
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Access, Part II
It was April 28, 2003. I sat in the public gallery of the Minnesota State Senate, with a legal pad (this back when WiFi was kinda rare, much less Air Cards), scrawling madly on a legal pad, writing down the salient points of the debate going on below – the final debate on the (intial)…
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Access
The ongoing squabble over access to the floor for media – partsian alternative media as well as the traditional kind – has been an ongoing battle at the State Capitol for a few years now. The rhubarb flared up again as the session started earlier month, as left-leaning group-blog “The Uptake” was denied “floor credentials”.…
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Hey, Wait!
Hasn’t the Twin Cities media – especially the “alternative”, liberal version – been barbering for years about how Rep. Michele Bachmann just doesn’t do “mainstream” media? Why, yes – they have! But – did I hear Michele Bachmann doing an extended interview with Cathy Wurzer on MPR’s Morning Edition this morning? Why, yes I did!…
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Absolutely On Fire
If you’re a conservative who’s interested in this election, and hasn’t quite gotten the full grasp of the media’s perfidy in this election, I’m going to direct you to Sheila Kihne’s ‘The Activist Next Door” blog, which has turned into a daily must-read this past few weeks. More new blogs like this, please.
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Help Wanted
I participated in a conference call with Chip Cravaack and his campaign yesterday; it was where he officially released the news that his internal polling shows him in a statistical tie with 17-term representative Jim Oberstar. And Cravaack quipped that while he’s trying to run a local campaign with local activists, he noted that all…
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Kaus & Effect
Blogging hits the ballot in California. On Tuesday, voters in the Golden State will chose nominees for the state’s U.S. Senate general election. And while most of the media oxygen for the race (already fighting for air against the uber-expensive GOP gubernatorial primary) has been sucked up by the Republican electoral 3-way, Democrats must thin…
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Connect The Dots!
Salem Communications – which owns both Townhall.com, America’s leading online conservative clearinghouse and Salem Radio, which in turns owns the radio station on which my radio program airs – has apparently purchased leading conservative site Hot Air, owned by Michelle Malkin and which employs my radio colleague Ed Morrissey, and its million daily pageviews. Someone…
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Democrats: Criminalizing Dissent
Democrats Diane Feinstein and Dick “Turban” Durbin – who have long been the Dems’ official trial-balloon-floaters for assaults on free speech like the “Fairness Doctrine” – are proposing an amendment to a Senate bill (S.448) clarifying the press shield law. And it’s aimed squarely at citizen journalists like you and I. Via RWN, here’s the…
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Since Our Congress Won’t Do It
Something for all you conservatives (and people who care about free markets and being able to get decent health care in this country) on Twitter: I’ve been @ messaging folks but hopefully you can give this some traction: Suppose you tweet the following: Please RT — select any number of pages from health care bill…
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Just A Reminder
I’ll be joining a few thousand of our closest friends at the Minnesota Tea Party in a few hours. It’ll be at the Minnesota Capitol Grounds, starting around 5PM. I’ll be joining a list of other speakers – Constitutional lawyer Marjorie Holsten, Doug Dahl, KLTK personality Sue Jeffers, Free market majordomo and AM1280 host David Strom,…
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A Parliament Of Grasshoppers
I’ve been blogging for seven and a half years; I was a couple of years ahead of the “fad” curve, for once in my life. And when it comes to political blogs, I think the various blog cultures reflect their owners. Liberals, being primarily herd creatures, are very hierarchical in their blogging; if you follow…
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To A Deluxe Apartment In The Sky
I’ll be cross-posting at Hot Air’s “Green Room” when the occasion warrants. My maiden effort was yesterday. A zillion thanks to my radio colleague Ed Morrissey for the opportunity to reach a whole new audience!
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Overreach
Starting about November 5, I figured that Obama, and especially the Congress’ Democrats, after being thwarted for almost thirty years, would not be able to resist overreach. Hugh Hewitt, writing from the road on his “100 Days Tour”, writes: The energy of the tea parties and which we see on our tour of the country…
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Start The Rally Without Me
I hope you can make it to the Tax Cut Rally tomorrow! I will not be there – the NARN show falls smack in the middle of the rally’s time slot so it’d be dicey (and it’s pretty much a project of a competing radio station, not that I’d boycott it, per se; I just…
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Um, Glenn Beck?
Isn’t this… Here’s the one thing that would solve most of our government’s problems: We must stop hoping for change and start demanding it. …what got us into the mess we’re in?
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The Fix Is In
When you’re a conservative blogger, especially in Minnesota, you get used to being actively insulted and derided by the state’s dominant political/media class. But ignored? Bear in mind, Minnesota’s center-right blogging community is, if not the most active and vital political blogging community in the nation, easily among the very short list at the top…
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Small World
First things first; congrats to the MinnPost’s David Brauer on having his first ambulance ride end fairly benignly. And yes – it is certainly a small world. Brauer called an ambulance after experiencing shortness of breath and chest pains: The Minneapolis fire guys were there immediately; their quick read of my vitals didn’t scream heart…
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Our New Passive-Aggressive Majority
Strap yourselves in, Republicans across America. You’ll get to live life the way we lived it here in Minnesota for decades; liberal supermajorities who believe your earnings belong to government first and foremost, backed by a media establishment that portrays dissent as one degree of depravity or another. Oh, and about the portrayal of Republicans…
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Romp Not Lest Ye Be Romped
Note to Twin Cities’ Leftybloggers: Please, please try to get your facts straight when you want to try to noodle about with issues I genuinely care about. You might get Haugenned. Fair warning. Liberal in the Land of Conservative writes: HOLY CRAP, the Democratic leadership in Congress is pushing the Fairness Doctrine. Who are the…
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Ethics For Ye, But Not For We
As far as the mainstream media is concerned, there is one standard of ethics for Republicans…: In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Chavez to a post in his cabinet as Secretary of Labor. Chavez was soon forced out because it was alleged that she had employed an illegal immigrant 10 years earlier. Subsequent investigation…
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The Eternal Game of Telephone
One of the reasons I always liked being a solo blogger (until Johnny Roosh joined the staff last summer) was that miscommunications among contributors were pretty rare. Of course, with bigger blogs, it’s not always quite so easy. Over at True North, I comment on a flap between two of my favorite regional bloggers; my…
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Paging Max Headroom
I finally got around to reading David Brauer’s two part interview with Tom Mischke (parts one and two), about his exit from KSTP and his thoughts on the future of the business. More on that in a bit. ———- I remember walking into KSTP the night I filled in for Bob Davis, on January 23,…
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When Monks Speak, Professors Nod Their Heads And Carry On Their Way
My quicker take on Brian Lambert’s take on Katherine Kersten’s departure from the Strib: He’s irredeemably wrong, for reasons that are largely due to personal and vocational myopia. I told you it’d be quick. But that’s not all that satisfying, is it? ———- A couple of points, just as background. I used to be a reporter. …
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The Economy Warms – For Nick Coleman
Mark “Mister Dilettante” Heuring, writing at True North, is reacting to the news of Nick Coleman’s buyout the way any good capitalist does. Life has given us (the conservative bloggers who’ve spent the past half-decade correcting Coleman on issues great and small) lemons. Mr. D is looking for someone to whom life gave vodka, to…