Bill O’Rielly Thinks The Netroots Are Like Nazis And The Klan

Leave it to Bill Rielly to compare the Netroots (via Netroots Nation) to the Klan and Nazis. Think Progress has the audio:

Austin Paper’s Slam Of Netroots Nation Makes National Headlines

As a former newspaper editor myself, I know one thing to be true: when Editor & Publisher, the magazine that covers the newspaper business, covers your newspaper, your newspaper just merged, is facing financial ruin, or you’ve either done something really good or really terrible.

In the case of the Austin American-Statesman, it falls in the latter category.

In an article in Sunday’s Statesman, the paper essentially made fun of Netroots Nation, but not in a very good way. Of course, the national netroots (many of whom happened to still be in Austin on Sunday), raised a stink, and Greg Mitchell has voiced his opinion on it at Editor & Publisher:

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Netroots Nation Panel: Inside The National Laboratory For Bad Government

Yet another great Texas Progressive Alliance sponsored panel from Netroots Nation: Inside the National Laboratory For Bad Government, which was a look at Texas politics by your favorite (we hope!) Texas bloggers:

Netroots Nation Panel: Our Dos Centavos, Strategies For Latino Bloggers

Another great panel sponsored by the Texas Progressive Alliance:

Netroots Nation Panel: Lone Star Candidates, The Class Of 2008

Over at UStreamTV, a video of the “Lone Star Candidates: The Class Of 2008″ is online. You can watch it below.

Texas Netroots Will Be Highlighted At Netroots Nation

The Texas Netroots will be featured in a number of great panels during the Netroots Nation convention July 17-20. Although the times on the panels below is obviously subject to change since, at the present time, they show as being set for between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. on Saturday.

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