other coverage from Tom Curry.

First read.

Last night, the activists gave Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the proprietor of Daily Kos web site, a hero’s welcome. The bloggers had proven “there was a desperate need for strong progressive voices in this country,†he said. “I think we have arrived.â€

Hey EW–

I’d love to hear LJ’s and Wilson’s (and Waas’s for that matter) take on some random theories. If you’re at liberty to discuss some of them, I know I would sure appreciate the discussion!

Have fun in Vegas! I’m already going there twice this summer (went over Memorial day weekend for a bachelor party and in July for a wedding), so I couldn’t swing a third trip.

Good luck! Looking forward to following the panel online, and to hearing the stories afterwardm, especially any scoops, confirmed-disconfirmed theories you’ve got.

Just a heads up to all fellow Plameaholics here. C-SPAN has decided to headline the Plame panel on C-SPAN2, not C-SPAN3 at 12:30 EDT. So, you can watch online, or on your TV at home or work too!

Can’t wait for the fun to begin!

Good luck EW, I’m looking forward to the panel and am very glad that you will be there!

Since I don’t have TV, I would have paid the $10 anyway. Let the games begin!

Here’s what makes it worth the ten bucks: hot mikes before the event begins, and during breaks.

Hey emptywheel!

Sorry I didn’t see your thread until now. It looks like you posted it a few hours ago.

You’ll kick ass on the panel, don’t worry! Or wait, did you already kick ass? I just looked at the schedule, and it looks like you already did your thing.

I’m too many time zones ahead, and math is hard work, you know

Thanks DemFromCT, I’m watching the stream now.

Nevermind that! She just said the one thing I needed to hear: â€I didn’t want to happen to this story what happened to Iran-Contra.â€

That’s why I get up in the morning. Thank you!

emptywheel, you’re kicking ass, great job.

Great job, wheel!

great job emptywheel!

I just wish you’d told us before launching your own site (emptywheel.com) — I feel so used, having to find out through C-SPAN.

although frankly, no c-span flub comes close to hearing Larry Johnson try to pronounce â€chutzpahâ€â€¦ (although he was a really excellent speaker once he got past the yiddish)

emptywheel

Great job, great job. Excellent job answering the Jason Leopold question. I hate to break the mood, but I have to ask about your earlier comment about Armitage. Surely you heard something interesting in that regard (that goes beyond the Daily News story) to support the idea that, just as your Judith Miller speculation was subsequently largely confirmed, so your Armitage stuff is holding up to what we’re learning. So spill. Again, I’m assuming this goes beyond simply the question of whether he’s going to be indicted or what have you, and has to do with what his actual role and motivation was, right?

Hey the panel was great, and EW you did a fantastic job, particularly on the critical sourcing question with respect to Leopold’s piece. I also liked Christy’s indirect approach to where the story is headed — Professional Prosecutors don’t waste the time of an underpaid citizen’s grand jury.

Great job on the panel, would have loved to be there. It is a little weird to have the t.v. on C-Span watching, the computer streaming AAR and reading your website. Just wanted to congratulate your appearance.

emptywheel dot cot ???

you been seeing another blog behind our backs EW ???

just for the smart people apparently, cuz they won’t let me in …

thanks for everything you do, and we forgive you for the Plame fetish

if you ever find a cure, don’t take it

and hurry up and dish on the â€random theories†discussions

I’ll take your wild assed guesses over most of the so called journalists anonomously sourced spin

emptywheel

There’s probably a little more, but I need to sort it out.

I am hoping that is the sort of understatement worthy of a Patrick Fitzgerald press conference.

When you say there is agreement that Armitage is Mr. X, does that mean agreement that he is Novak’s first source, not just Woodward’s?

Waas’ gradual, respectful and substantive calling out of Byron York was a thing of beauty. Truly, so much was played out there, it’s one for the history books.

I swear, everybody at this convention is brilliant and charming. I want to marry them all (sigh).

Larry Johnson went after conservatives in general, IIRC, not York personally, as Waas did. But he hit them right between the eyes. I connected it to York because he was obviously there listening.

Jeff,
Yes, I think the understanding was he leaked to both. Though it’s kind of vague. I was pretty tired by that point of the story.

Kate Phillips was hanging with Ad Nags during my media training session. I can’t get the story opened, she doesn’t say anything about a drooling blogger getting media training, does she?

she doesn’t say anything about a drooling blogger getting media training, does she?

How’d you know? It’s the lede.

Kidding. No such mention.

There is that whole business of the disclaimers from the former chief of staff, and that is still in litigation until its belated trial date in early next year; but, understanding how the post junket reports were made, once again, might help understand other things coming out of the Jeffress trial balloon machine which awakens from time to time in the media, eliciting Walton’s scoldings and threats of more severe sanctions; I hear Olsen’s lament not to be tossed into the briar patch on that; but, hearing some of the people involved retrace that again might be of passing interest to help understand during the next seven months of interim whether we, or even the special prosecutor, know that alibi for a patent fabrication.

Then there is the whole matter of the Maguirite nonTroll’s questioning about the Libya trade mission, plus your totally different topic discussion about the newly chastened regime’s nonproliferation hopes, at least as enunciated by that leader’s offspring who attended the London School of Economics. Though all these supraSarahan topics are much more volatile and likely less discussible because they relate to current and future events in the region.

Departing even more widely from the narrow theme of the panel, perhaps, as many principals are in attendance, likely, would be the lecture Sen. Leahy gave Mr. Friedrich at the Judiciary Committee hearing on the attorney general’s desire to redact the 188 cartons of Jack Anderson’s papers, Gonzales fairly disregarding the fact JA’s heirs has loaned those materials to a professor who is publishing a civics study book sourcing them, date unspecified set in 2007, and, as the WaPo link describes, G’s rep Friedrich basically taking the 5th, thereby evoking the committee’s ire.

That’s the news from the area forty miles north of Gina’s place.
JL

fyi the panel now re-airing on c-span 2 (10 pm Eastern time). It’s about 1/2-way through already.

EW – you were great.
No worry – the closest that NYT’s Kate Phillips comes to bloggers’ TV appearances is this:

Some even fit the advice column mode. At several sessions on Thursday, one offered political pundit training, (for the mainstream television appearance — smile no-matter-what; wear boring clothes and always a jacket; women, don’t tilt your heads; men, keep a hand in one pocket).

Very positive piece indeed. Hang out with her and make friends.
She will be useful later on. She is postively disposed toward
ykos convention crowd.

Damn, emptwheel! Good memory (though it was your question, after all). For my part, at the moment I can’t remember what motivated the question. It appears that the SSCI is correct on this count. Does the motivation have to do with whether one of the DO debriefers might have discussed something related to the Niger documents?

So are we going to get a series of rolling disclosures, of questions asked and answered, theories and hypotheses denied or confirmed? Can you tell how badly I wish I were there?

You were great on the Plame panel. That forum alone was worth the price of my ticket.

frank

I’m listening to the good Doctor as we speak. He still has it.

And I won’t surrender. Don’t you surrender either.