Major National Gathering of Conservative Bloggers Will Include Everyone But Me

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Stephen Kruiser, Katie Harbath, Cord Blomquist, Peter List, Frank Keegan, Dana Loesch, Larry O’Connor, John Nolte, Meredith Dake, Matthias Shapiro, Will Franklin, Brandon Stewart, Bill Beutler, Michael Sandoval, Ari Armstrong, Todd Shepherd, T.L. James, Kelly Maher, Andrew Malcom, Melissa Clouthier, Michelle Malkin, Steven Crowder, Jim Pethokoukis, Dean Clancy, Max Pappas, Ed Morrissey, Deneen Borelli, Ace of Spades, Kristina Ribali, Russ Walker . . .

These are the announced speakers and panelists at BlogCon 2011, Nov. 11-12, at the luxurious Crowne Plaza Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver.

Discussions about my attendance concluded abruptly after Tabitha Hale rejected my suggestion that I moderate a panel entitled, “Suckage 2.0: How to Become Completely Irrelevant as the Universal Laughingstock of the Conservative Blogosphere.”

Maybe next year . . .

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  5. Never. Heard. Of. Any of these people.

    How come I know this blog and read this blog every day but somehow all these other folks are so so RELEVANT to my life?

  7. On closer reading, yeah some of these folks I ALSO read but at first glance it was; Huh?

    Oh and Ed Morrissey can perform an unnatural act upon my private parts for being a really really pompous self important putz. I won’t go into details, let’s just say he pulled a Charles Johnson on me for complaining about being moderated when no profanity or threats to anyone was present; he berated me for being upset and to top it off banned me but didn’t publicly say so. So I was unable to explain/apologize/retort.

     Cheap Trick isn’t just an old has been rock group. It’s what Morrissey pulls when he’s feeling like a big Dick.

  9. Don’t feel bad. I’m in Colorado and I wasn’t invited.

    “Feel”? Feel? Chopped liver has no feelings.

    I was merely performing a public service to readers by informing them about Blog Con 2011: The Conference Featuring All the Conservative Bloggers Who Really Matter.

    “Feelings” have nothing to do with it!

  14. Maybe you and Jeff could report on a story while the rest of the con blog world are hunting for hosted bars and free buffets at that event. 

  18. You would think on your birthday they would give you a discounted admission and a couple of drink vouchers!  And permission to sleep in the KIA out in the near by Walmart parking lot. 

  19. Con Bloggers will not come to New York State due to draconian gun laws.  Pick a place that is on the Utah CCP reciprocal list (the broadest reciprocal CCP in the Country that nonstate residents can obtain). 

  20. I get an error message every time I try emailing you from my computer.  From the phone it’s okay.  Looks like my email address got placed on an att.net/block list.  Strange. 

  23. My beard is getting horrifying enough that my wife is going to stop inviting me to dine at the “Y”.  You’re not the only one suffering for your art, Stacy.

  26. LiverCon 2011. Actually, you could create a better line-up from those not invited to be panelists at BlogCon.  

  27. I’ve heard of some of these folk but  by no means all.  On the other hand this is an opportunity for you.  Surely you can score many scoops while they’re all distracted trying to keep Ace from picking drunkass 3 a.m. twitter fights with Dan Riehl….

  30. LiverCon would need to occur in Lexington – starting point of the bourbon trail.

    Chopped LiverCon, I don’t know.

  36. I am not a panelist, and won’t even bother pretending to be going to learn anything.  I am going to hang out.  I am really looking forward to finally meeting some of my oldest, dearest blog friends in person for the first time.  And to hanging out with the usual suspects, of course.

  37. Lot of paid bloggers on that list.  Why listen to folks who got hired to  just throw posts on an existing platform?  That’s not “blogging,” that’s just modern, degenerative journalism.

    Those who build their own site, and work the nets on their own or with a few trusty cobloggers (usually unpaid), now that’s blogging.

  38. Bob, I’m in. Let’s do it. Stacy and Jeff could teach us some more of the stuff that they’ve been teaching us already without really knowing that they’re teaching it to us.

  40. Discussions about my attendance concluded abruptly after Tabitha Hale rejected my suggestion that I moderate a panel entitled, “Suckage 2.0: How to Become Completely Irrelevant as the Universal Laughingstock of the Conservative Blogosphere.”

    Your mistake was putting me on that panel.

  41. The point is not to derogate the attendees, K Bob. The point is that when they gather around the lobby bar at the luxurious Crowne Plaza, somebody will ask, “Hey, why isn’t Stacy here?” And then the invited guests will shout in unison, “BECAUSE STACY’S BLOG SUCKS!” Uproarious laughter and drinking of toasts will ensue.

  45. On the list I see several names I don’t recognize, and I’ve been on the intertubes since 1994.  A few others I don’t consider really “bloggers” but nobody asked me to serve on the Rules Committee, either.

    With the advances in technology, it does seem funny that people have to go to a physical conference and pay travel, hotel, food, etc. to discuss online activity.

    I hope most are going are doing so for social reasons, like Lorie Byrd, because to me they all look more like cash cows for the sponsor than anything that actually benefits anyone attending (unless they have something to sell).  That includes BlogCon, CPAC, RedState, and any other meetup that charges a registration fee of more than $10.

    But Stacy’s big mistake was in volunteering to lead the discussion on sucking.  He’s a failure at being a failure, because nobody looks like a failure next to Obama any more.  Besides, didn’t Bernie Madoff wear a fedora?

    Now if he had proposed putting on a Rule Five Live seminar, he could have charged extra.

  46. I had a great time at last year’s BlogCon, hung out with a fun bunch of  wonderful bloggers (including Stacy and Smitty), learned some new blogging tricks of the trade, and enjoyed getting to know the good people of FreedomWorks and the valuable work they do. I guess they weren’t as impressed with me as I was with them, because I didn’t get so much as an email about this year’s event. Looks like a solid lineup, anyway, although there seems to be a fedora deficiency on the agenda.

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