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March 01, 2007BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Party Time For Conservative Bloggers
The Conservative Political Action Conference began here in Washington today, and plenty of bloggers are on the scene to cover it.
The Heritage Foundation's Robert Bluey, who heads the group's Center for Media and Public Policy (of which I am an advisory board member), published an early list of the credentialed bloggers. Bluey also is the man behind the CPAC Bloggers Blog, which is a portal to coverage by various bloggers.
An early favorite among the bloggers: Sen. Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who recently hired away blogger Tim Chapman from the job Bluey now holds.
An early target of at least one blogger: former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose hiring of blogosphere friend Patrick Ruffini didn't win him any points with leading conservative blogger Michelle Malkin. She scolded Giuliani, at this point still an unofficial GOP presidential candidate, for not making time to talk with bloggers while he is at CPAC:
"If I were a smarter politician trying to convince grassroots conservatives that I really do want their votes, I might, I dunno, make some time to talk with them -- and not just at them," Malkin wrote. "Alas, Giuliani has chosen not to get his hands dirty. By contrast, Newt Gingrich's communications director e-mailed tonight that Gingrich is making himself available to bloggers on Friday morning (he doesn't speak until Saturday)."
Posted by Danny | 11:29 AM
