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April 14, 2006BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Friday Festival Of Blog Bits
Rep. Jack Kingston held a conference call with a handful of conservative bloggers. The subjects ranged from Iraq and Iran to immigration reform and energy independence.
You can get full reports at Capitol Report, Captain's Quarters, HughHewitt.com, Right Wing News, The Right Angle and Wizbang.
Later in the week, The Washington Times mentioned the blog call in a story on Kingston's outreach to blogs.
The Hill covered the flip side of that coin: blog outreach by House Democrats, particularly Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, R-Calif. Capitol Report, GOP Bloggers and even the blog of the Republican National Committee highlighted the less-flattering aspects of the article.
The liberal Americablog, by contrast played up this quote from the story: "The liberal blogosphere is better developed than its conservative counterpart." And Matt Stoller of MyDD added that "it's good to see more recognition of the progressive blogosphere."
It's always amusing to see how the same story can spark such conflicting reactions.
More blog bits from this week:
-- Word that outgoing Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, might be chosen by President Bush to head the White House Office of Management and Budget sparked a flurry of commentary in the blogosphere. For views across the political spectrum, visit Capitol Report, Firedoglake, Power Line, The Stakeholder and TPM Muckraker.
-- Stoller played delivery man to the office of Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., on behalf of the Rubber Stamp Republican Congress project of Firedoglake.
-- When Stoller caught some heat from his friends in the liberal blogosphere, meanwhile, he changed his mind about Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Illinois. And Chris Bowers of MyDD provided an update on the push to recruit Democrats for races in most House districts.
-- Pat Cleary of ShopFloor, the blog of the National Association of Manufacturers, praised his readers for bombarding the Interior Department with comments about the push for environmentally safe mineral exploration.
-- The Week magazine published its explanation of why it chose Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters as blogger of the year. For more evidence of why he won the award, check this bit of enterprising journalism about Iraq intelligence, as well as the response at both Barone Blog and RedState.
-- The Cincinnati Enquirer stopped publishing the "Grandma in Iraq" blog after bad press about the author of the blog, an Army public affairs officer.
-- Rick Hasen of Election Law concluded that new Federal Election Commissioner Hans von Spakovsky once wrote under the pseudonym "Publius."
-- CNN reported on complaints by two former staffers to Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., that he made them baby-sit, run errands and do political work. GOP Bloggers said it's about time someone covered the story. But what inquiring blogosphere minds really want to know is whether Conyers made the employees blog at ConyersBlog.
-- Andy Roth of The Club For Growth really wanted to find some useful information in "Crashing The Gates," the book by liberal bloggers Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. He didn't.
-- TalkLeft is being blocked at a public library in California.
-- Blogging by research universities: Blogspotting at BusinessWeek Online has a host of questions about the merits of the practice.
-- ABC News Washington correspondent Jake Tapper announced that he is taking a break from blogging at Down and Dirty "for a host of complicated reasons."
-- What makes a blog a blog? Asked and answered, in multiple ways, at Concurring Opinions.
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