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The rise of left-leaning news sites has inspired conservative-backed online investigative reporting.

PajamasTV hasn’t really been in the news since it hired Sam “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher to report on the war in Gaza, but it’s still kicking. Some of its most popular content is coming from black conservative comic Alfonzo Rachel, who sometimes appears as “President Zobama.” He’s put together a music video that is mostly [...]

The NEFA Foundation has gotten ahold of an English-language video interview given by a Swat Valley spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban — think of them as a big tent of Taliban factions — apparently recorded on April 27. You can hear Haji Muslim Khan expand on the finer points of Taliban jurisprudence, like torturing a teenage [...]

Obviously I watched Glenn Reynolds’ “American Tea Party” interview with Publius Pundit blogger Robert Mayer as soon as I could. I’ve been familiar with Publius Pundit for years as a site that covered popular revolutions in third world nations. Mayer informs viewers of the PajamasTV show that the Tea Party anger is the “same kind [...]

Look, the media doesn’t pay enough attention to Samuel Wurzelbacher. The key scene in Wurzelbacher’s latest episode of “Just Joe,” the Pajamas TV web show comes when he’s talking to a small group of reporters in the Capitol. Why aren’t there more reporters in the room? What is it they’re so busy covering?
That’s the key [...]

Last September, I was standing in James Lileks’ lawn at his 50th birthday party, a classy event that happened to overlap with the Republican National Convention, when I spotted Pajamas Media co-founder Roger L. Simon. More to the point, I spotted his posse. Simon was being trailed by at least five cameramen in matching “PajamasTV” [...]

One of the Right’s most prolific online political writers, Jennifer Rubin, puts out a story today headlined “Obama’s Centrism Could Drive the GOP Out of Business.”
The greatest champion of liberals (they thought) is on the verge of repudiating their agenda. But he is also undermining the opposition. The result may be that centrist nirvana which [...]

I turned down a (very polite) request to appear on one of Pajamas Media’s online shows last week. Why?
This is why.

Get that tone out of your voice, Aaron! You slyly mock Joe The Plumber’s forthcoming reporting assignment for Pajamas TV in Israel. But a closer look at the ongoing war in Gaza demonstrates why, now more than ever, the region needs Joe The Plumber.
Human rights groups and Palestinian officials are reporting a sewage crisis, with [...]