Think Youth is going to Denver!

Think Youth receives credentials to attend the 2008 Democratic National Convention in August.

In April we submitted an application to attend the Democratic National Convention in August of 2008. Yesterday, we formally heard back from the DNC, and they have invited us to attend the convention. We were accepted as part of the “General DemConvention Blogger Pool” which consists of “local, state and national political bloggers as well as niche bloggers.”

We would like to thank the DNC for accepting us, and we look forward to covering the convention here on our blog, with articles, podcasts, and videos and do so all while we introduce the Democratic nominee (whoever they may be) to America. As teens and young adults, this will allow us to cover the convention from a unique perspective.

We can’t wait to have a united party during the convention, and it will be a time where the wounds of our party will heal. We will head into November stronger than ever, and we can’t wait!

-Think Youth Staff

From the DNC press release:

DENVER – As part of its continuing commitment to engage a broad spectrum of audiences in new and creative ways, the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) today announced that a record number of blogs have been credentialed as members of the media for the 2008 Democratic National Convention at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colo. These blogs will help ensure that communities across the country are connected to the Convention through the eyes and ears of a growing, diverse group of online voices.

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The credentialed blogs represent a large and diverse collection of voices and perspectives. The pool includes blogs covering national, state and local politics and those representing a variety of groups including the African American, Latino, Asian American, Native American and LGBT communities. Blogs focusing on youth issues, women’s issues, labor issues, disability issues as well as those focusing on the environment and communities of faith will also be credentialed among many others.

Click Here to read the full list of blog attending the convention.

We will post more info when available…

Matt Drudge To Retire.

Editor’s Note: This post was put through an anti-Koko propaganda filter before being published.

Media powerhouse reporter Internet URL collector and right-wing radio show host Matt Drudge will retire from his radio post on Sept. 30. The non-biased internet journalist trash piler will continue his popular garbage site The Drudge Report.
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The power of the internet media.

HotAir.com was founded by Michelle Malkin this year. It was made to battle off the left wing media powerhouse of the internet. Since then it has gotten about 3 million hits a month. Not as much as the Daily Kos‘ 14 million but still, a respectable amount.

The Drudge Report was started by journalist’s Matt Drudge and Andrew Wilcof since its launch they parted way’s. It has gotten 20 million hits a day coming in 3rd place in news site’s after Yahoo and The AP.

The Daily Kos was started by Markos Moulitsas. Since then it has been one of the most popular blog of the left wing internet media. It has since got 14 million hits a month. It has been threw controversies with Fox News and The Oreilly Factor. They have a convention called The Yearly Kos.
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Could Hillary Clinton Be Behind an Anti-Obama Blog?

Online since April, www.hillaryis44.com[org] is a staunchly pro-Hillary Clinton blog, featuring daily opinions, updates on Clinton’s position at the polls, T-shirts and buttons.
There’s also a healthy dose of good ol’ fashioned mudslinging. In particular there are a number of attacks on Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. The blog encourages readers to send in “confidential tips,” ostensibly to further scrutinize the Illinois senator. And in doing so, it begs the question: Is Clinton’s campaign affiliated with the blog? [abcnews.go.com]

In case you’re wondering what the number 44 stands for, it’s pretty obvious. Hillary would be the 44th president, if this blog (and most Democrats) had their way.

But one of Hillary’s officially endorsed blogs about her is the HillaryHub. HillaryHub basically indexes all of the blogs that favor Clinton.

After some investigating, there was no way I could to tell if Clinton’s campaign is connected to this seemingly unconnected website that is ‘Hillary is 44′. Each website has different web hosting, which is an obvious tip off. But if Hillary is connected, the truth will never come out about it.

Media Matters vs The Politico.

Media Matters has a new gig against The Politico. The story was about how The Politico made a mistake in the Libby case here is the article that appeared in Media Matters.

In a June 17 Politico article on the “[p]ressure” Republicans and conservatives are putting on President Bush to pardon former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, chief political correspondent Mike Allen quoted an anonymous adviser to a 2008 Republican presidential candidate explaining that it would be “politically good” for Bush to pardon Libby because “[t]he very bedrock of believers in conservativism” are “united around” a pardon. At no point in the article, however, did Allen report the most recent polling data on the issue, which indicate that the vast majority of Americans opposes a pardon for Libby.

On March 6, Libby was convicted on federal charges of perjury and obstructing justice in connection with the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000 on June 5.

In his June 17 article, Allen wrote:

Libby pardon politically good?

At first, the presidential contenders shied away from the topic, but former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said during their last debate in New Hampshire that the sentence was “grossly excessive,” and others said a pardon should be considered.

“When Scooter first got indicted, the reaction was that it was unthinkable to consider a pardon — everybody was in the Marc Rich mode,” said an adviser to one of the Republican presidential campaigns, referring to the controversial last-minute pardon for the fugitive billionaire by President Bill Clinton.

“Now, it’s about 75 percent there that it would be politically good. The only people who aren’t going to like it are people who slam you every day, anyway.”

The adviser explained a possible political upside for the president, who is at historic lows in the public opinion polls, this way: “The very bedrock of believers in conservativism — across the spectrum, from the religious to the intellectual to the ones who care about national security to the federalists and libertarians — have been disappointed in some way by this administration. This is something they’re all united around.”

The lobbying is subtle, according to participants. They say that making the case directly to the president or his top aides would be insulting and could backfire. Instead, friends of Bush and Libby have been quietly working cocktail parties and other venues, laying out their logic for a pardon.

When these people do talk to presidential aides, they confine their remarks to what they consider safe ground — how hard the ordeal has been on Libby and his family.

Allen quoted several other Republicans and conservatives supporting a Libby pardon, as well as Dave “Mudcat” Saunders, adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who “said the brouhaha over heiress Paris Hilton would make it easier to get traction for charges that Libby was getting special privileges.” Allen also cited two other articles on the subject of conservatives pushing for a Libby pardon — a June 7 New York Times article by reporter Jim Rutenberg and a June 14 article by Slate.com chief political correspondent John Dickerson — writing that “Libby’s friends cooperated with” these articles in order to “get their messages to the top echelons of the White House.” None of the three reporters, however, mentioned polling data in their articles indicating just how unpopular a Libby pardon would be. According to the most recent polling on the issue — conducted after Libby’s conviction but before his sentencing — two-thirds of Americans oppose a pardon for Libby.

* A March 9-11 CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll found that 69 percent of Americans believe Bush “should not give a presidential pardon to Libby,” compared with 18 percent who believe he should.

* A March 9-12 Time magazine/SRBI poll found that 72 percent of Americans think Bush “should not” pardon Libby, compared with 18 percent who think he should.

* A March 11-14 Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans believe Bush “should not issue a presidential pardon for Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby,” compared with 21 percent who believe he should.