Congressman-elect Jim Himes will be live blogging at Firedoglake today at 4 PM.
Himes' transition from candidate to Congressman has been the subject of a number of print stories recently, including one in the New York Times, and this interview with the Fairfield County Weekly. Even the Peruvian media has covered the story.
Jane over at Firedoglake sends this video of her, Markos Moulitsas (DailyKos) and Ned Lamont givnig their respective takes on the Lieberman situation.
Old Home Week -- Ned Lamont stopped by the Big Tent. He, Markos and I chatted about the fact that Joe Lieberman hasn't changed, he's still the same backstabbing asshole he always was but at least he doesn't get to call himself a Democrat since we KICKED HIM OUT OF THE PARTY.
Firedoglake, Jane Hamsher's blog, is getting overwhelming praise today, both from within the blogosphere and the traditional media for their work on the Scooter Libby trial and for the years leading up to today. Glenn Greenwald had this to say last month:
It is virtually impossible to closely follow the Libby trial without relying upon the work of the blogging team assembled by Jane Hamsher and FireDogLake. Hamsher built FDL by becoming (along with her blogging partner, former prosecutor Christy Hardin Smith) literally one of the country's leading experts on the Plame scandal, long providing some of the most insightful analysis, and even breaking stories, on her blog.
While Jeff Jarvis at Buzz Machine noted the new dynamic. As did James Gordon Meeks (NY Daily News) on C-Span in the first clip I upped for Jane. The second clip is from today on Fox News where James Boyce (Democratic Strategist and Huffington Post contributor) squares off with Rich Lowery (The National Review) in typical Fox News fashion.
Marcy Wheeler's report from the trial today is the third clip. Anyone wanting a comprehensive look into this case ought to read her Anatomy of Deceit.
A pretty good story today about Jane and her crew.
For blogs, the Libby trial marks a courthouse coming of age. It is the first federal case for which independent bloggers have been given official credentials along with reporters from the traditional news media, said Robert A. Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association. Mr. Cox negotiated access for the bloggers.
"My goal is to get judges to think of bloggers as citizen journalists who should get the same protections as other journalists get," Mr. Cox said.
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