PRESTOPUNDIT -- "An intense brain-buzz, guaranteed" (2blowhards)

1. A letter to PrestoPundit -- Subject: making a difference -- sent by Lori from Texas regarding "Ra^thergate".

2. I was interviewed by Daniel Weintraub ("The California Insider") on morning talk radio on KION in Salinas/Monterey. We talked for 10 minutes about blogging and the mainsteam media. What fun it was chatting with a man I've long admired and whom I'd interacted with online during the California Recall excitement. It turns out this was Weintraub's first time behind the mike as an interviewer and I still remember how comfortable Dan made me feel. A true highlight of the year.

3. On the day the Ra^thergate story broke on Powerline, I was the first blog breaking the news that the son of Lt. Col. Jerry Killian was challenging the authenticity of the CBS "National Guard" memos. I sent out emails to several other bloggers and took a link from The Corner, then from InstaPundit, and finally from Lucianne.com. A wall of traffic hit and my sitemeter went spinning. I continued updating that posting throughout the next day or two, breaking several other "blogosphere" scoops. I was off and rolling as a major source of constantly updated Ra^thergate material.

4. Monday night May 4th just after 12 A.M. Eastern I posted John O'Neill's Wall Street Journal piece attacking the war record of Sen. John Kerry -- launching the national Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against John Kerry. This was only the first salvo, but PrestoPundit's "Wall-to-Wall Coverage of Kerry In Cambodia" was underway. On July 28 I noted that the Swift Boat Vet web site was finally back up. By August, things had really gotten hot.

Well, time for bed. I'll update this with more tomorrow. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack