The Real Power Of Left Blogistan

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Many of the heaviest weights, hearts and minds of American Left Blogistan are in Las Vegas this weekend at the first Yearly Kos conference.

Yesterday C-SPAN televised, live, a fantastic panel that dealt with Plamegate. It was run by Citizen Plameologist, Jane Hamsher, of Firedoglake. On the panel were: Mr. Valerie Plame himself, Joseph Wilson; Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post who is one of the good-guys in the mainstream media; Murray Waas who has done the deepest and best investigative journalism on this thing; former CIA agent Larry Johnson who trained and worked with Plame; Marcy Wheeler also known as 'Emptywheel' on the Next Hurrah who exposed Judy Miller and all that entails; and Christy Hardin-Smith of Firedoglake who is the legal brains behind the operation.

It is fantastic stuff, inspiring really when you realize that Hamsher and Hardin-Smith have managed to do all this purely as regular citizens who started a blog and drove this entire thing forward*.

If you want to check it out, it's archived here (just click on 'Yearly Kos Convention' and up pops Ms. Hamsher and away you go!!!).


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*If you want evidence just click on Firedoglake's Site Counter and go to 'Year' and watch how the hits have piled-up starting from essentially absolute zero.
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