Crooks and Liars Rocks!

Time Magazine names Crooks And Liars a Top 25 Blog of 2009
Crooks and Liars rolls out new website... Newstalgia

Great news over at our friend John Amato's house.

First, Time Magazine says C&L rocks.

Time Magazine

When professional musician John Amato launched the Crooks and Liars political blog in October 2003, it featured something that was quite novel in those ancient pre-YouTube days: video clips. Today, Crooks and Liars is among the most widely read political blogs on the Web, and Amato — now known in blog circles as "the Vlogfather" — is recognized as a pioneer of video blogging. The video selections — snippets from government press briefings, Congressional hearings and TV talk shows — are the sort of clips that Jon Stewart uses for fodder, but this is a chance to see the video in its original unintentionally humorous context. Amato leans liberal, but his blog is an equal opportunity attack dog, taking a bite out of the crooks and liars on both sides of the aisle.

Crooks and Liars John Amato

Everyone at C&L works long and hard to make this corner of the internet worth the visit seven days a week. It's not done for the awards, naturally, but it's always nice to be recognized for what we do.

I'm very grateful for everyone who helps put this blog together and for all the help our readers give. I think it was Dan Manatt of Politics TV that called me the Vlog Father a few years ago when we were talking on the phone. I thought that was pretty funny and we laughed about it.

Thanks, team.

(Correction for TIME: I started C&L in September of '04)

Second, John's buddy and colleague, Gorden Skene, an awesome dude in his own right, is collaborating with C&L to start a new website, Newstalgia, a historical look at the events of the present, brought to us through the sights and sounds of the past.

Here's a little bit about Gordon.

Crooks and Liars

Two time Grammy Nominee Gordon Skene comes to Newstalgia with a lifelong passion of collecting and archiving news, historic events and popular culture.

Started on the morning of November 22, 1963, Skene has accumulated an archive of over 100,000 reels and 40,000 discs of broadcasts, airchecks and field recordings highlighting history from 1898 to the present.

He's been involved with several album and Internet projects such as "Great Speeches of The Twentieth Century", "The Beat Generation", 'Have A Nice Decade - The 70's Culture Box" "The Big Box of Baseball" and more recently "The 100 Greatest" CD/Boxset. He was actively involved with Microsoft on their Encarta and Bookshelf projects and has provided The History Channel with over 1,000 historic clips to be used as downloads on their website.

In addition to countless album and internet projects, The Gordon Skene Sound collection, in conjunction with Searchworks, has provided numerous historic recordings for such film/TV projects as "Brokeback Mountain" "The Miracle", "Angels In America" and "The Hoax". He has worked closely with the music Departments of 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.

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And rather than me even quoting Gordon's first post and his intentions for Newstalgia, pop on over and check out Newstalgia.

Highly, highly recommended.

Well done.

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Say NO to Climate Change Deniers

Ok, Folks. We have a situation.

We have firmly helped put Drifty in the lead and sunk the Anchoress in the individual catagory but another problem is brewing at the Blog awards.

Pharyngula a blog written by PZ Myers is falling behind the climate denial blog "Watt's Up With That"

We need all the folks on this blog to make sure that Watt's doesn't win.

I realize that these weblog awards are kind of silly, but the bottom line is that if this climate change skeptic wins it will give some credibility to the nuttiest of the nutty on the right.

So once again.
GO VOTE. Polls close soon. Let's get this one done too.

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One Day Left, Voting Ends on 1/12

You've got one day left to help Drifty and fellow fantastic liberal and otherwise brilliant bloggers get their just rewards!

Vote Vote Vote

Bluegal is up for one.
Driftglass of course.
My favorite cake blog.

And so many others in so many great categories.

Go and help close out the voting now. Voting closes on 1/12.

See you after the polls close, bitches.

UPDATE
Juan Cole needs our help too! Go vote for his excellent blog, Informed Comment

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Voting

Keep the votes coming.

Driftglass is now ahead. Let's keep him there.

Remember... You can vote once ever 24 hours.

Vote Driftglass.

Vote Skippy.

Vote Blue Gal or Brad Blog.

Vote...Vote...Vote.

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Vote for Drifty!

Right now, our beloved driftglass lefty machine and friend to the downtrodden-- is losing the Individual blogger award vote to a crazy right wing Christian pajamas media blog...

This is a travesty! Vote. Vote. Vote.

And tell all your friends to vote.

http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-individual-blogger/

get it out there in the comment threads around the toobz.

This cannot be!

If you do not know his blog, take a look. And remember "There is no charge for awesomeness or attractiveness."

Go Drifty Go!

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