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June 11, 2006BELTWAY BLOGROLL
More Coverage of YearlyKos
The obsession with the YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas this weekend is beginning to wane as the event nears an end, but yesterday's sessions generated more coverage.
The keynote speech by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. AP reports that he used the forum as an opportunity to announce a legislative bid to impose stricter rules on intelligence reporting from Iran by the Bush administration. He also made an appeal to bloggers to act as a force in this year's election.
Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga also got some air time on this morning's edition of NBC's "Meet the Press." He touted the role of blogs and the Internet more broadly in influencing elections.
"[T]he role’s going to get bigger and bigger as the movement grows. ... Now, does that mean we can actually deliver an election? Probably not," Moulitsas said. "But what we can do is we can generate the buzz, we can raise some money, and we can act as a rapid reaction force the way that conservative talk radio and conservative television like Fox News has done for so long."
He also discussed the perceptions that liberal bloggers have of Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, former Vice President Al Gore, and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner. All are potential presidential candidates in 2008. And Moulitsas explained why so many Democrats are behind the campaign of Ned Lamont in his primary challenge to Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.
The Washington Post had two articles on the convention today. One piece by in-house blogger Chris Cillizza of The Fix focused on the popularity of Reid among bloggers. Political writer Dan Balz penned the other piece, and John Aravosis of Americablog took exception to Balz's argument that bloggers sound like liberals even while saying they are not.
Even The Observer in London covered YearlyKos in a story headlined "Top Politicians Pay Homage To King Of Bloggers."
Posted by Danny | 03:02 PM
