Congratulations to blogger Ed Morrissey, a.k.a. Captain Ed, who was named “Blogger of the Year” at a Washington, D.C. dinner and panel discussion last night, hosted by The Week magazine. Morrissey beat out fellow finalists Arianna Huffington, Michelle Malkin, John Aravosis, and… me.
Here are Captain Ed’s thoughts on the evening. Also, here are some thoughts from last year’s winners at Power Line, and from Aravosis and Huffington. They were all there; dunno about Malkin. I wasn’t. I have this nagging fear that I’m going to discover an unlistened-to voicemail or a junk-filter-caught e-mail that I missed days or weeks ago, inviting me to the banquet and offering to fly me to D.C. for the event. :) But, in all likelihood, they didn’t invite me because they figured a “weather nerd” wouldn’t have much to add to a political discussion. Little do they know I’m also a political junkie! Although, in truth, I wouldn’t have had as much to add as the other guests undoubtedly did. I just would have liked to meet some of the cool people who were there! Oh, well. It’s still quite an honor to be nominated.
The new write-up of the awards isn’t online yet (it’s still displaying last year’s stuff, for the moment), but I presume there will be a little blurb about me eventually, as there was about last year’s finalists, so I’ll link to it when that happens.
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April 5th, 2006 at 10:51:19 pm
I think you woulda won if you had more Mike Tran related posts/articles
April 5th, 2006 at 10:53:31 pm
LOL
April 5th, 2006 at 11:58:41 pm
That award was total bull****! What a freakin joke! Who the *!?! is Captain Ed? Unless he piloted a cruise ship out of New Orleans during Katrina, f**k his **!>? @!?! !?!!?!ing ass!!!!
Arianna Huffington gets invited and you don’t! WTF is that sh*t about? Some rich withered old Greek skeleton wearing human skin gets a free ticket to DC, and you get stuck in South Bend? Outrageous!!!
I certainly hope that Arianna’s private jet crashes into a snot factory on the way back to Hippie Town, CA. You deserve at least that much, Brendan.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:57:03 am
That ED dude site sucks..Loy is the king of this, he got a few of us started including me.
April 6th, 2006 at 6:53:40 am
Michelle Malkin didn’t have a mention of this last night or yet today but I did find this post by her from back in December.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004105.htm
“Brendan Loy. Prescient, comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina. If only this Notre Dame law student with a passion for weather had been in charge…”
April 6th, 2006 at 7:00:42 am
First of all, another LOL!! to Casey.
Secondly, re: Malkin: yeah, I remember that. Perhaps she was invited to the D.C. event, but didn’t go in protest of the fact that I wasn’t… LOL. :)
I looked at last year’s nominees and I noticed something. Of the five nominees, two were unquestionably conservative (PowerLine and Hugh Hewitt), and two were, I believe, liberal — somebody correct me if I’m wrong on this, as I don’t read these blogs — but aren’t Jay Rosen and Matthew Yglesias generally thought of as liberal bloggers? Meanwhile, the fifth nomination went to Lowculture.com; the first line of the write-up said, “In a year of serious ideological warfare, Lowculture was the much appreciated comic relief.”
Now look at this year’s nominees. On the Right, Captain Ed and Michelle Malkin. On the Left, Aravosis and Huffington. And the “tiebreaker”? Brendan Loy, a weather nerd whose blogging fame has nothing to do with ideology! On the one hand, it could be a coincidence, but on the other hand, it seems awfully convenient that they (again?) have a 2-2-1 split in their nominees, with me, like Lowculture before me, as the non-ideological tiebreaker.
In that context, it’s not surprising that I wouldn’t be invited to their political debate shindig thingy. I’m like the token non-political blog (though of course that’s not accurate, as I do post about politics quite often — but it’s not my reason d’etre, like the other four, and it’s not my claim to fame).
All I gotta say is, if the keynote speaker had been Connecticut’s other senator, I would have called them up and DEMANDED an invitation…. hehe :)
April 6th, 2006 at 7:04:45 am
P.S. To Nate… I’m sure Ed has inspired his share of bloggers to start their own blogs as well. :) His claim to fame, as I understand it, is that he reported on a whole ton of Canadian corruption that the mainstream Canadian press was ignoring or refusing to investigate or something like that. Some people credit him with almost single-handedly bringing down the Labor government. Dunno how accurate that is (didn’t follow it that closely), but regardless, he certainly did make a big impact on the blogosphere and the body politic last year. I don’t read his site that often (frankly, I rarely get past InstaPundit in my blog reading, except when I search for a specific topic on Technorati, or when I’m bored), but from what I have read, I certainly wouldn’t say that he “sucks.” :)
April 7th, 2006 at 4:42:24 am
Captain Ed got his fame from publishing about the kickbacks the government were taking from advertising agencies. It was a pretty spectacular case of corruption, but, largly due to court orders, wasn’t widely reported at first.