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COLORADO NEW MEDIA FIGURES ATTEND RIGHTONLINE IN LAS VEGAS

Published on June 19, 2012 by ReaganGirl

Numerous bloggers, radio personalities and conservative leaders from Colorado attended Americans for Prosperity's “RightOnline” Internet activism conference in Las Vegas this past weekend. Front Range blogger Kelly Maher and Colorado AFP Chairman and radio talk-show host Jeff Crank were in attendance. Bloggers from Peoples Press Collective, and several other news and opinion blogs joined Internet activists from all over the country to attend educational workshops and to hear speakers such as Sarah Palin, Scott Rasmussen, and Michelle Malkin. Activists and bloggers from the Western Slope also joined over 1,000 like-minded new media reporters and writers at the largest conservative Internet activist event in the country.

RightOnline was started five years ago by AFP's Erik Telford in response to Netroots Nation, the annual gathering of bloggers and Internet activists from the Left end of the political spectrum. The goal of RightOnline has been to train ordinary people to use the Internet to get out the news that is so often ignored or subjected to the spin of the Liberal-biased Mainstream Media. The Internet is a powerful tool that can be used for the instantaneous sharing of news and opinion. Social networks like Twitter and Facebook have proven to magnify that power in ways that 10 years ago the earliest bloggers could only have imagined. This article on ColoradoPeakPolitics is a perfect example of blogging and the ability of an ordinary individual to write news that otherwise would never make it into the biased newspapers and television programs that once dominated the market.

RightOnline 2012 paid special tribute to the godfather of citizen journalism, Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart's aim was to go over and around the Mainstream Media with an army of observers who expose the truth of what goes on in culture, politics and in the workings of government. These citizen journalists, bloggers, videobloggers, and commentators are invested in the future of America because they are ordinary Americans. RightOnline has, to a large degree, fulfilled its promise of creating a conservative Internet presence that has overtaken the Left in quality, quantity, and the entertainment value of Internet reporting.

Citizen journalism is not a new concept. Professional reporters have been around for only a century or so. Citizen journalism has reemerged out of the righteous indignation of a generation of Americans who are disgusted with the lack of ethics in the Mainstream Media, and the Liberal bias that has tarnished its journalistic standards for decades.

RightOnline encourages all Americans to become citizen journalists and to contribute their observations in the form of news and commentary whenever possible. Print media and traditional news stations are on the decline. It is still important to interact with those outlets, but the New Media of the internet and social networking provides uncounted ways for the real news to get to more people at the speed of a click.

It was just a year ago that the new media of Twitter ended the career of Liberal Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner. The literal exposure of his mis-deeds would never have been possible without the army of observers that Andrew Breitbart inspired to become citizen journalists. That is the essence of the new media, and the focus of RighOnline.

NO ONE IS SAFE: Attorney General Eric Holder’s Ballot Given Away To Man Without ID

Published on April 9, 2012 by ColoradoPeakPolitics

In the latest James O'Keefe sting, the conservative activist gets a man on video receiving Attorney General Eric Holder's ballot to vote at a polling place in Washington, DC.

Reports Breitbart.com:

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has declared that there is no proof that in-person voter fraud is a problem. He's about to see proof that even he can't deny.

In a new video provided to Breitbart.com, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas demonstrates why Holder should stop attacking voter ID laws–by walking into Holder’s voting precinct and showing the world that anyone can obtain Eric Holder’s primary ballot. Literally.

The video shows a young man entering a Washington, DC polling place at 3401 Nebraska Avenue, NW, on primary day of this year–April 3, 2012–and giving Holder’s name and address. The poll worker promptly offers the young man Holder’s ballot to vote.

The young man then suggests that he should show his ID; the poll worker, in compliance with DC law, states: “You don’t need it. It’s all right. As long as you’re in here, you’re on our list, and that’s who you say you are, you’re okay.”

Check out the video here:

While we haven't been a fan of all of O'Keefe's tactics, this video seems to put the lie to Democrats' claim that voter fraud is not a problem and there is no need to require photo ID at polling places.

The voter ID debate across the country has proceeded the following way: Republicans say the lax rules in place open up the voting system to massive and easily perpetrated fraud. Democrats say any attempt to make sure voters are who they say they are is racist and discriminatory. They say there is no proof of massive fraud, or even minor fraud outside a few rare cases.

Yet, somehow it was as simple as just showing up for a man with a video camera to obtain the US Attorney General's ballot. No, no need to worry there.

The voter ID debate has also been playing out recently in Colorado, with Democrats blocking a bill last week that would have made a voter ID law a ballot question. As the issue resonates with voters as a common sense reform, and thus has overwhelming public support, Democrats wanted to keep the law from passing, so they could continue to lob accusations of racism at Republicans.

In 2010, here in Colorado Kelly Maher was able to vote with her electric bill, but when she walked down the street to get a library card with that same electric bill she was turned away and told to return with better identification.

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has famously been attacked relentlessly by Democrats and liberal special interest groups, like Common Cause, on this issue.

In December of 2011, the Executive Director of Common Cause, Jenny Flanagan, said “There is no evidence of people misrepresenting themselves at the polls.”

Want to rethink that formulation Jenny?

As guest Peak contributor Dave Diepenbrock so perfectly explained, it's really easy to vote fraudulently in Colorado, just as it was for O'Keefe's team in Washington, DC.

But don't worry, Democrats tell us there is nothing to see here. Move along.

“WE WANT THE DOG”: Conservative Media Puts Occupy Denver In Its Place

Published on November 15, 2011 by ColoradoPeakPolitics

No one has ever accused the Occupy Denver squatter horde from being savvy or even possessing the remotest amount of intelligence. This past weekend they put their stupidity on display again. Only this time conservative bloggers from across Colorado and the country were there to document their latest inane attempt at relevance.

Video and coverage from Peoples Press Collective (here & here) show a band of unbathed boobs trying to "storm" the conference room last Friday where the Blog Con 2011 conservative blogger conference was meeting. Apparently the protesters incorrectly believed the conference was funded by the infamous Koch Brothers. The Google button on their corporatist iPhones must not have been working, as the conference was sponsored by FreedomWorks, which has no affiliation with the conservative donor siblings. Oops.

Never mind the fact that a group of people exercising their first amendment rights is probably not the best target for a group who claims their first amendment rights are being infringed upon when the cops shut down their squatter camp. What was truly amazing about the Occupier's stupidity is they chose to crash an event that was populated by conservative bloggers with a combined audience in the millions.

Did they not realize they were setting themselves up to be shamed and mocked ruthlessly?

Within minutes of the altercation, we started seeing stories pop up on outlets from Breitbart.tv to Hot Air. Last we counted, the cumulative Youtube views of the failed Occupier effort had crossed 100,000.

Footage shot by bloggers also made its way to CBS4 and Fox News, ensuring an even wider audience would know the depths of the Occupiers' ineptitude.

Even The Denver Post joined in the coverage, noting that the small group of Occupiers were chanting "We are the 99%" with the bloggers chanting back "We want the dog" — a reference to Occupy Denver's elected leader, a border collie named Shelby.

Saul Alinsky's spirit was alive and well with the bloggers. One of Alinsky's famous "Rules for Radicals" is man's most potent weapon is ridicule.

It seems all the Occupiers succeeded in doing was to give great content to a group of bloggers and further expose themselves to be nothing more than an angry and mindless group of leftist activists with nothing better to do than attack those they disagree with.

Also caught on tape and covered by Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft was the fact that a private school teacher from Denver's St. Mary's Academy had taken a class of students to watch the Occupiers trespass on private property and barge in on a private conference. You know…a learning opportunity. That blog coverage led to a report on Channel 7, highlighting a brazen act of poor judgment that would have gone uncovered if not for the conservative media's effort.

The following day the "stubborn" Occupiers had their weekly Saturday march, leading to yet another violent confrontation with police, who had warned them for days that it was illegal to continue to squat on public property. Not to be deterred from their selfish belief that wherever they feel like squatting is all of the sudden their property, the protesters proceeded to shut down public streets with chants of "Whose streets? Our streets."

The drivers of the cars that were trying to get down Colfax probably felt differently about who owned the streets, but we digress.

We were able to follow these events not because the mainstream media was covering it, which it barely was, but because of the good work of conservative media outlets. In Colorado, you can find the most extensive collection of coverage on all things Occupy Denver from Complete Colorado. On Saturday night we were able to watch the Occupiers make fools of themselves and get chased up and down the 16th St Mall thanks to Complete's embedding of a livestream of the events.

Peoples Press Collective had video up from the Occupier crashing of the conservative blogger confab minutes after the confrontation. Kelly Maher has covered the violent threats and roving mob mentality of the Occupiers for the Daily Caller and WhoSaidYouSaid, giving the world a peek behind the curtain of absurdity and sometimes downright violent intentions.

Had there been weekly violent confrontations between police and the Tea Party, we don't doubt for a second that the street would be lined with news trucks covering the events ad nauseam. Violent leftist radicals is apparently a played out narrative for the mainstream media. Nothing we haven't seen here before. Better get back to covering the latest snow storm.

The behavior exposed by the conservative media, including the burning of an American flag at Occupy Denver, led even ProgressNow's Alan Franklin to say he was "disappointed" in the protesters. Consider that a victory. How often do you see the Left castigating its own?

It used to be said that you should never pick a battle with those that buy ink by the barrel. The new reality seems to be never pick a battle with someone who generates clicks by the thousands. In this case the Obama-backed Occupiers charged the lion's den, only to see their credibility and influence destroyed in a fit of blog posts and cell phone video clips.

We wonder if Rep. Wes McKinley is regretting setting up his TeePee alongside the squatter hordes at this point? We know we wouldn't want the association to be brought up with our rural constituents back home.

(Photo credit: Peoples Press Collective)