Tag Archives: Netroots Nation

NETROOTS: White House Rep Denies Obama “Filled Out” 1996 Marriage Pledge

This may be the biggest news to come out of Netroots. In an interview conducted in front of an audience at the Netroots Nation blogger conference early Friday in Minneapolis, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer claimed a 1996 questionnaire favoring gay marriage, which bears Barack Obama’s signature, was “actually filled out by someone else.” “If you actually go back …

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MINNEAPOLIS: Scumbag Wingnut Liar Andrew Breitbart Tries To Crash Netroots

King of the scumbags (and GOProud backer) Andrew Breitbart, who famously crashed the press conference of Anthony Weiner, was up to his old tricks this afternoon at Netroots Nation. There will be no Weiner-style gatecrashing from Andrew Breitbart at the Netroots Nation conference here. That is, unless Breitbart wants to pony up $355 for a ticket. With the annual conservative …

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Tweet Of The Day – Melissa Clouthier

The rumbles between Netroots attendees and those here for the anti-gay Right Online conference have begun. According to Twitter, one Netroots attendee was just dragged screaming out of Andrew Breitbart’s book signing. The haters booked themselves right into the main Netroots host hotel.

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Afternoon View – DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Speaks At Netroots

She’s somewhat the fiery speaker. Video to come soon, hopefully.

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Netroots Nation Notables

I’ll add more photos to this slideshow as the week goes on.

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NETROOTS: Choi Rips Up Obama Flyer

Igor Volsky reports at Think Progress: “Lt. Dan Choi ripped up an Obama For America (OFA) flyer this afternoon during a panel at Netroots Nation when he was confronted by an Obama volunteer who attempted to explain away the President’s opposition to same-sex marriage.” NOTE: The Obama administration is prosecuting Choi for chaining himself to the White House fence during …

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The Daily Kos Lounge

At the moment I’m blogging from a big comfy floral sofa in the Daily Kos Lounge, an oasis of recliners, couches, and power strips (yay!) that runs down the center of the main hall of the Minneapolis Convention Center. That’s my ‘puter in the foreground and Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper is across from me. I have no idea what …

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Afternoon View – Right Wing Watch

Folks, meet Right Wing Watch bloggers Brian Tashman and Kyle Mantyla. Between the two of them, they probably provide more JMG video and hate-quote content than any other site I regularly reference. Big props and snaps to them both!

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Morning View – Pam & Lizz Winstead

Pam Spaulding kicked off the first official day of Netroots Nation 2011 by appearing on the radio show of Lizz Winstead, which broadcast from the main floor of the Minneapolis Convention Center.

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Daily Grumble

You’d think that at a giant convention for thousands of blogger/journalists there’d be ample and easy internet access. If you thought that at last year’s Netroots in Vegas, you were wrong then too.

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Wingnuts To “Crash” Netroots Nation

A long list of repulsive anti-gay scumbags will gather here in Minneapolis this weekend “in defiance” of the Netroots Nation convention. Confirmed to attend: Andrew Breitbart, Michelle Malkin, Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Herman “Gays Are Sinners” Cain, Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli, and GOProud’s Jimmy LaSalvia. GOProud won’t be allowed to actually participate, of course, but they’ll be holding …

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Netroots 2011 LGBT Conference Begins

Mike Rogers is at the podium kicking off today’s Netroots 2011 LGBT Conference. In the room: Pam Spaulding, Jeremy Hooper, Michael Crawford, Rod McCullom, Jillian Weiss, Jarrod Chlapowski, Jerame Davis, Fred Sainz, Corey Johnston, Chris Johnson, Phil Reese, and about 100 more hard-working LGBT activists.

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Notes From Netroots

My blogging schedule may be somewhat erratic all this week as I attend the various lectures and seminars at Netroots 2011. Today I’m attending Mike Rogers’s LGBT pre-conference, where most of your favorite activists, bloggers, and writers will gather. You can follow the goings-on on Twitter at the hashtag #NN11LGBT. By the way, I have very fond memories of the …

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Party Town

This year’s Netroots Nation is shaping up to be very different from last year’s in Las Vegas. UPDATE: Before the locals get TOO bent out of shape, here’s my review of MSP from my 2005 visit for the InterPride convention.

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Morning View – Netroots Boys

The first familiar faces I ran into here in Minneapolis were Washington Blade staffers Chris Johnson and Phil Reese.

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Evening View – MSP Light Rail

I barely had ten hours back home after Key West and now I’m in Minneapolis all week for Netroots Nation 2011. The weather here sucks and this is the ugliest fucking hotel in the history of the universe. And of all the parallel universes. (I’m guess I’m a little travel-fatigued.)

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NET NEUTRALITY: Sen. Al Franken Warns That Corporations Will Run The Internet

Calling it the First Amendment issue of our time, during his closing keynote at Netroots Nation, Sen. Al Franken warned that unless net neutrality is preserved, media corporations that are also internet providers will soon throttle the speeds of their competitors, an issue we’ve long been discussing here on JMG. (Via – Towleroad)

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LANDSLIDE: Netroots Nation Attendees Want Sarah Palin As 2012 GOP Nominee

By a huge margin, attendees of Netroots Nation said they’d most like to see Sarah Palin as the GOP 2012 presidential nominee. Heh. An early release of the Netroots Nation straw poll taken from Thursday through Sunday and obtained by TPM shows that attendees of the convention in Las Vegas overwhelmingly want Palin to mount a presidential bid. Respondents were …

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A Little Slice Of Gay Vegas

I didn’t get to see much of Las Vegas’ gay scene as Netroots pretty much kept us busy day and night. But I did get out to Fun Hog Ranch for a couple of hours, where I saw the first cigarette machine I think I’ve seen in a gay bar in about 20 years. Nice place, just the sort of …

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I Went To Chippendales!

Several hours after I posted a Morning View shot of the Chippendales Theatre last Wednesday, I got a charmingly effusive email from their publicist, Randy Slovacek (above), who outed himself as a longtime JMG reader and invited me to the show. So Friday night, in the company of fellow activists Phil Attey, David Castillo, and Zack Ford, we were seated …

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