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Blog Bash 2013 Photos Are LIVE!

Blog Bash 2013 was a memorable night! Since the event, we have been working to save those memories thanks in part to our excellent photographers. It’s been a process that we are happy to announce is finally completed.
 
Don’t forget to link to the photos on Twitter and Facebook. Use the hashtag #BLOGBASH. Let us know what your favorite moments of the night were!
And don’t forget to follow @NatlBloggers on Twitter and Facebook. We plan to announce some major pro-blogger initiatives in 2014.
Thank you again for making Blog Bash a success. We can not wait to have an even bigger and better event in 2014!
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Another Blog Bash in the books

Yesterday was an incredible evening. Thank you to everyone who helped make it a success!

Last night we honored our peers, remembered our friend Andrew Breitbart and even tipped our glasses with Senator Ted Cruz. There is no event like Blog Bash!

Of course, Blog Bash wouldn’t be complete until all the awards were handed out. All attendees had the opportunity to vote and they selected the 2012 winners.

 

2012 Blogger of the Year

Lachlan Markay, Heritage Foundation Foundry Blog

Bloggers’ Choice: Non-Profit Blogger of the Year

Sean Hackbarth, Chamber’s FreeEnterprise.com

 Best Activism Post of 2012

Dana Loesch, Donors offers $$ For Info Leading To Arrest Of Union Thug

Best Investigative Post of 2012

Robert Stacy McCain, ‘A Faint Whiff of Vigilante Hysteria’: Weinergate’s Kimberlin Connection

Bloggers’ Choice: Movie of the Year

Hating Breitbart

Best In Show: Podcast

Fingers Malloy (Podcast)

Best In Show: Twitter

David Burge (@IowaHawkBlog)

Best In Show: Video

Scottie Hughes – “DNC County Chairman: Christians Want Jewish People to Die”

Friends of Bloggers Award

Erik Telford

Legacy Blogger

Sean Hackbarth

Sunlight Post

Compete Colorado

Bloggers Stand With

Black Conservatives (awarded to Kira Davis)

Best State Level Blogger

Jon Fleischman of California

Andrew Breitbart’s Changing the Narrative Award

Emily Zanotti

Our team is still hard at work at CPAC working with bloggers. We will be posting photos soon! In the meantime, please share your favorite moments of the night on Twitter using #BlogBash!
Already looking forward to 2014.
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Meet Blog Bash DJ Sid Bluntley

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In the mid-nineties I was lucky enough to be present and help out with the beginnings of the online conservative movement, but wasn’t able to continue with it for various reasons.  Three years ago, when I found out the Blog Bash organizers needed a DJ, I jumped at the chance, because I knew firsthand all the slings and arrows bloggers take, and I wanetd to be able to give something back to them for all the hard work they do with my new business.  It was an honor to finally meet people like Ed Morrissey, Michelle Malkin, and Mary Katherine Ham.

The next year, when I DJed the 2011 Blog Bash, I was able to help the producers of Atlas Shrugged Part I set up to show their movie previews.  Working with them was fascinating and gave me some opportunities I would not otherwise have had.

For last year’s event, after I learned Andrew Breitbart was going to be attending, I was inspired to play the alternative-eighties music that he was known to enjoy (and who doesn’t love eighties music, anyway?)  Sure enough, in the middle of the party Andrew noticed what I had been spinning and came up to the DJ booth to talk music.  What fun it was to talk about something with Andrew that he was so passionate about!  He mentioned that in another life he would have loved to be a DJ and told me a story about a New Order concert he once attended.  I played “Crystal” for him by request.  That conversation was a highlight of my life, and I wish he was going to be with us in person this year.

Also, we had the great guys with Madison Rising perform.  I was happy to help them with their sound too.  If you haven’t heard their music, I really encourage you to check them out!

I DJ for weddings, all kinds of parties and events, and even karaoke in the Washington, DC area.  I play all genres of music, but have an affinity for eighties and lounge music.  Please contact me so that I can help make your event fun and a big success!  And come to me at Blog Bash and say hi!

@DJSidBluntley / http://www.sidbluntley.com/ / info@sidbluntley.com

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Brett Kimberlin is After Blog Bash Attendee Aaron Walker’s WIFE

The Left’s war of intimidation against bloggers has reached a new low, as Aaron Walker reported today that his wife was “stalked” by notorious progressive activist Brett Kimberlin.

Now, the breaking news that Aaron was able to share with me last week is public on his blog: Brett Kimberlin – who spent 17 years in federal prison after being convicted as Indiana’s infamous “Speedway Bomber” – showed up at a Maryland court house and began photographing Walker’s wife.

While Walker was attending a March 1 hearing and his wife was in their car in the parking lot outside, Kimberlin “circled the vehicle, looking into its interior and at my wife,” Walker wrote at his “Allergic to Bull” blog. Walker said Kimberlin “drove around and then parked in the space directly facing my wife … and started taking pictures or filming her.”

 This at face value appears to constitute criminal harassment. It downright turns my stomach.
I’ll be damned before I allow Kimberlin and his cyber-thugs shut up even one blogger. Blog Bash will go on. Lee, Mandy, Robert, Aaron, John — most of his victims will be there.
When I meet Aaron for the first time in person on Wednesday, I plan to share with him all of the names that have generously protected him and reinforced our right to speak freely.
What’s next? Stand with Bloggers. With Aaron. Take to Twitter. #BrettKimberlin must be exposed!

 

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Only days left!

Final preparations are underway to make this year’s Blog Bash the best one yet. Our team has been putting the final touches on the night while securing a few surprise announcements. Stay tuned to our social media and blog to hear what we have in store for attendees this Thursday!

That being said, our blogger attendee, as well as our sponsorship opportunities have now come to a close. We would love to let everyone in to take part in the night but we unfortunately have run out of space. If we are able to free up room from invited attendees and sponsors giving up their tickets, you will receive an email and be added to the list.

We do apologize for the disappointment. We have been extremely fortunate for the support and opportunity to bring bloggers together for this very special event! We are grateful to our sponsors for helping us continue the tradition of providing free food and drinks, entertainment and good networking opportunities for bloggers at CPAC. Keep following us on Facebook and Twitter to find out the details for the next Blog Bash event.

For those who are unable to make it to CPAC, don’t forget we are livestreaming the beginning and award ceremony of Blog Bash here on blogbash.org. More details will be coming soon.

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Andrew Breitbart at Blog Bash 2012

The last time many of his friends saw Andrew Breitbart was at Blog Bash 2012, where he accepted the “Changing the Narrative” award for his outstanding work in new media.  This was one of his last public appearances before his untimely death, and he left bloggers and those for whom he had paved the road to new media with some encouragement that they won’t soon forget.  Below is never-before-seen footage of Andrew at Blog Bash 2012.

Thanks to Ben Howe for recording!

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NRCC to sponsor Blog Bash 2013

I am proud to announce today that the National Republican Congressional Committee has committed to sponsoring Blog Bash at CPAC 2013.

The NRCC is an organization that gets it. Their team is committed to working with bloggers I encourage all our attendees to learn more about their activities for the upcoming year.

While the National Bloggers Club cannot endorse candidates we are happy to facilitate better communication between groups and individuals who recognize the importance of supporting citizen-journalists. Thank you NRCC for being on the side of bloggers.

In fact, in answering the call that organizations ramp up their blogger outreach this year the committee is hosting a blogger conference call on Monday in which National Bloggers Club President Ali Akbar will attend. All NBC bloggers are invited to attend.

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Occupy Blog Bash?

Remember Brett  Kimberlin?  The hack who has threatened multiple people and families in the conservative movement and has destroyed so many lives?  Well, he’s back, folks.  This time, he and his gang of evil conspirators are threatening Blog Bash and the bloggers who will attend.  The Blog Bash staff have been monitoring online chatter from Kimberlin and his buddy Neal Rauhauser for weeks; they’ve tried hacking into personal Twitter and Facebook accounts and are determined to stop Blog Bash from happening.  Yesterday, the venue received a call from a man named “Neal.”  Here’s a bit from a piece Ali wrote earlier today:

He called to gather information about Blog Bash, knowing that all of us will be in one room for the first time ever. He tried scaring them. This is harassment and nothing short of a threat.

Brett Kimberlin is dangerous and we’re taking the threat seriously. His nexus is directly attacking our First Amendment rights — the ability to peacefully assemble and speak the truth.

They’re trying to put pressure on our venue to drop the largest gathering of center-right bloggers and our allies. The work we all do as bloggers is groundbreaking.

You can read the rest of his article here.  7 days until Blog Bash, where we’ll continue to defy Brett Kimberlin and his cronies by continuing to make an enormous impact on Washington, the media, and the country.  These threats won’t stop the good work bloggers are doing.  We’re living out Winston Churchill’s famous words when he said:

“You have enemies?  Good.  That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”