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Breitbart, RightOnline headed to Minneapolis

By | 04.13.11 | 6:32 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

Billed as a “counter to the leftwing Netroots Nation Convention” being hosted by Minneapolis in June, RightOnline has announced it’ll also be coming to Minnesota’s largest city this summer. The conference will feature Andrew Breitbart, a blogger whose selective editing of video has generated heated criticism, along with More…

‘What Would We Do Without Fox News and the Wall Street Journal?’

By | 08.24.09 | 9:37 am

Adele Stan has a great play-by-play on the recent RightOnline conference, with a focus on the provenance of the event’s big stars. One-third of the speakers were employees of one news organization or another; the idea that conservative media was under assault played heavy in the proceedings. Quoting Jim More…

RightOnline Attendees Soak Up Success

By | 08.18.09 | 6:00 am

PITTSBURGH – Scott and Anna Allegrini founded The Children of Liberty shortly after the inauguration of President Barack Obama. It was a small group that would meet at the local library in Sylvania, Ohio, bringing in guest lecturers to talk about economics and the More…

RightOnline: Michelle Malkin

By | 08.15.09 | 12:20 pm

PITTSBURGH – The author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling “Culture of Corruption” closed out the morning of RightOnline, where she’s the undisputed star. She relished the attacks on conservative activists, sarcastically repeating what she claimed were left-wing assaults: “You, the teeny tiny fringe minority of fringe conservative More…

RightOnline: Joe the Plumber, John Fund

By | 08.15.09 | 10:07 am

PITTSBURGH – Somebody got to Joe Wurzelbacher. In a short speech to the RightOnline conference, the man formerly and forever known as “Joe the Plumber” (whose famous confrontation with Barack Obama is coming up on its one-year anniversary) dodged the angry or homophobic gaffes that have dominated coverage More…

A Town Hall Disrupter Speaks at RightOnline

By | 08.14.09 | 3:48 pm

PITTSBURGH – At a RightOnline panel on “Blogging 101,” PoliticsDaily writer Matt Lewis showed a video of a health care meeting held by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) that was short-circuited by conservative protests. One of the protesters, Sonja Bliss, happened to be in the room. Bliss, who owns a More…