I'm glad Rock and Gatey are going to Denver;

my problem is that they're coming back.  

Gate has a political agenda he is not an objective journalist.  Hey Ben how low has your profession sunk.

Rock, Gate, the Daily Gotham, the Albany Project or anyone else all have political agendas. The DNC clearly was interested in using bloggers as an organizing tool and said so when they organized the damned thing. Advancing a political agenda is the whole idea.

Objective journalists, like the New York Post, are already taken care of in the conventional manner.

That being said, suing Rock and Gates as organzing tools is like using vodka as a mouthwash.  

The usual slam against Gate is that he is Vito Lopez's mouthpiece, but Vito is still with the Clintons, and the Gatemeister has publicly jumped ship.

As course, so has Diana Reina  

Adam Green once descibed Hackshaw and Gatemouth as "a pair of tough talking 1970s cops who don't take nuthin' from nobody"

"It is one thing to have a progressive agenda like Rock"

The Progressive Agenda of Rck Hackshaw

1) no to gay marriage

2) no to a woman's right to choose

3) yes to executions

If that's the progressive agenda, I'll take the bosses.   

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My first recollection of Gatemouth was when he compared Vito Lopez and Clarenace Norman to Sonny and Fredo. I also recalling him excorating Noach Dear, Carl Kruger, and Marty Markowitz. Surely, a man of Lopez's power could find himself some "guys" with more loyalty.   

It is said that conservatives look for allies, while the left looks for heretics. There is no doubt that whatever room Gatemouth enters, he always commits a heresy.

You would think that freethinkers would prefer this to blind adherence to the party line.  

Rock has the right to his opinions, which certainly don't disqualify him as an ally of liberals--would any liberal refuse his vote, or those of likeminded voters?

And Rock certainly never lays claim to labels like "progressive" or "reformer"; in fact, I can't recall Rock ever laying claim to any label.

 Likewise, Gatemouth not only does not lay claim to those labels, he disclaims them, but there is no doubt that on issue after issue, he is almost always to the left of center, and sometimes very much so.

I think the commentator who got Rock so outraged may have been pointing out that liberals who hail Rock while dissing Gatey are only fooling themselves. Neither meet their exacting standards of purity, but both fit comfortably --well, maybe not that comfortably--in their big tent.

I prefer commentators who refuse to adhere to party lines; even in that respect Rock and Gatey are not perfect, but I'd certainly prefer to read them than pre-chewed progressive talking points any day of the week.

This is bureacratic BS!  The Daily Gotham bloggers and any other bloggers who want to go to Denver *should* go.  Just blog across the street at the free speech area, or in the lobby of a nearby hotel, or at a local bar.  Do you think anyone online is going to notice who is in the arena blogging and who is outside next to the arena?  This is sanctimonius bull, convention organizers deeming for themselves the right to decide which sites are better than others, who are better bloggers than others.

Also why should Gatemouth, who stopped posting here until recently and has not been a prime contributor to this site in the last year one of the ones chosen to go.  Gatemouth *left* this site and only recently game back right?

12:28: It makes a big difference whether one has credentials giving one floor access or not.

Otherwise they may as well be blogging from Brooklyn.

Which would probably be a better idea, since getting blogger designation also gets them a room, which are othewise booked solid.

As to your other point, wrong again.

Gatemouth resumed posting here in Septmember, which is hardly recently.

Back in September, Hillary was going to be the nominee.

Since that time, Gatemouth has posted twenty pieces. and that's not counting the ten I count from "bloggers" who I suspect are really Gatemouth--"Pee Wee" my tuchis!

Plus, I think there was another one in that category that I believe Ben and Gur deleted.

In fact, I count another four pieces, one in the last year, which appeared under Gatonyms during Gatemouth's supposed "retirement".

So, Gate has hardly been absent--he's around as much or more than such Room 8 institutions as Skurnoff and Yogurt.

As to the answer "Why Gatemouth", didn't he answer it himself?

Because he and Rock were the only ones from Room 8 to apply.

As to why the DNC chose them, instead of the Progressive Blogs, I dunno---dya think it might have been Daily Gotham and Albany's Project's "Let's Lynch the Speaker" campaign?

Not that the Speaker hasn't been "Lynched" before.

The whole process sounds political.  I bet Daily Gotham did not get picked because the process is being controlled by Obama and Clinton people, and the administrators of that site were throughout 2007 and early 2008 pretty strongly pushing the candidacy of John Edwards.  While at the same time some were regularly villifying Hillary Clinton.  Maybe the chickens have come home to roost.  If Edwards was the nominee maybe they would have been picked.