Blogging biz: Salem buys Hot Air
According to Mediaite, Salem Communications (the right wing/evangelical Christian media outfit to whom Cathy Hughes and her son sold the Radio One station I used to work for in Miami,) has bought HotAir.com, the conservative blogchild of Michelle Malkin. No sums were reported, but the sale puts Salem in control of two large-sized conservative outlets, including HotAir and TownHall.com. Salem also runs Lou Dobbs’ radio show and Bloomberg news in this market, and they seem to be making a push to become a bigger player in the right wing media game. Interesting …
RedState bans birthers, HotAir bans ‘Redstate bans birthers’
The wingnuts are lining up on either side of the birthers, the crazy cult who try to induce soldiers to duck out of service under President Obama and who file kooky lawsuits backed by Alan Keyes and a madwoman, and of course, being righties, “9/11 truthers” too. Joe the Plumber: he’s against them. RedState.com has banned them. But the folks at Hot Air, where I first read about the ban yesterday? Why, they’ve banned their own top of the fold “Redstate bans birthers” thread from the homepage. See here? Gone! Must have been push-back from the birthers within. (But they did label JTP’s anti-Palin apostasy “heartache.”
Who will be the next to excommunicate, or embrace, the birther cult?
Tea parties turn on Ron Paul: is this the beginning of the end?
Allahpundit asks: if Ron Paul isn’t safe from the tea party movement, who is? And it’s a good question. The tea party movement began as a sort of Libertarian/conservative uprising, focused on shrinking government, ending bailouts and cutting taxes. It definitely had an element of Obama Derangement Syndrome grafted onto it, but in theory at least, it also was anti George W. Bush. Clearly it has morphed into something else — a confederation of people who reject the results of the 2008 election, mainly Palinites (the angry mobs who shouted “kill him!” and “off with his head!” at Palin’s ‘08 rallies look an awful lot like those making up the tea rallies these days…) George W. Bush defenders, neoconservatives (who really don’t seem to fit in, but whose beef with Paul is that he opposes foreign adventurism, a la Iraq) plus the well-documented fringe of racists, nativists, birthers and just plain angry white people. Throw in Tom Tancredo leading the lobster-gobbling, pinky in the air Nashville conventioneers and you get a strange gobbledygook of race baiting and snobs who can afford to pay $800 to hear Sarah Palin say what you can hear her say for free on Fox News, and what you’re left with is a very strange brew. Read more
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