{"id":7969,"date":"2010-08-01T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T15:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7969"},"modified":"2010-08-02T02:23:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T09:23:35","slug":"netroots-nation-the-view-from-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7969","title":{"rendered":"Netroots Nation: The View from Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve largely been on the road, East-Bound and Down, from sweltering Vegas to sweltering Texas since last weekend’s progressive “Netroots Nation” conference in Sin City, so haven’t had much time to offer reflection and\/or color beyond our post after the first day last week<\/a>, including our interview with Markos Moulitsas and attempted interview with GOP “voter fraud” deceptionist John Fund.<\/p>\n

So allow me to associate myself with the Jeanne “AKMukraker” Devon’s fairly comprehensive coverage<\/b><\/a>, which includes some great photos (several of yours truly, but other than that\u2026), videos, charts and speeches of note from the three-day gathering of progressive bloggers and journalists. As Jeanne, she of the great Alaska blog The Mudflats<\/a> was largely responsible for tricking me into<\/strike>, talking me into<\/strike>, convincing me to stop by the conference — as I’ve never gotten to one of these Progressive Confabs in years past — it’s only appropriate I should send you back her way for her fish-out-of-water (Alaskan Salmon out of Prince William Sound?) overview, which includes not only a plastic moose and convincingly real cleavage, but also pink phalluses, Amy Goodman, Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Al Franken and my new BFF Lizz Winstead\u2026not necessarily in order of importance\u2026<\/p>\n

And, and here’s one photo Jeanne didn’t<\/i> include in her post for some reason — featuring (from left<\/i>) Alaskan blogger<\/a> and radio talker Shannyn Moore, Truthout<\/a> reporter\/editor Jason Leopold, and Jeanne herself — though I tweeted it as it happened<\/a> late one night, titling it appropriately enough: “Three Sheets to The Rio”….<\/p>\n

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We’ve largely been on the road, East-Bound and Down, from sweltering Vegas to sweltering Texas since last weekend’s progressive “Netroots Nation” conference in Sin City, so haven’t had much time to offer reflection and\/or color beyond our post after the first day last week, including our interview with Markos Moulitsas and attempted interview with GOP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7969"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}