REPORTING FOR DUTY
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About
Anachronistic as it may be, we hold that there can be little doubt that the Founders and Framers of these United States would have been cyber-savvy, laptop-toting, wi-fi enabled electronic pamphleteers, and it is in this spirit that we have named this forum.
Our hope is that Founding Bloggers will play a role, if only a modest one, in the greater political discourse, as not only a venue for the advocacy of those ideas which have made possible the greatness of these United States of America – of political and economic liberty, of small and limited Federal government, of the sanctity of the individual, unfettered by statism, and of the importance of preserving and defending these ideas for future generations – , but also as a repository for comments and observations by like-minded and otherwise intellectually engaged Americans. We maintain that within a popular political culture dominated by sophistry and demagoguery, the force of Reason, girded by the lessons of history, and allowed to operate unhindered, may yet prevail. With this in mind, and with these ideals as our touchstone, we venture forth into the often murky terrain of contemporary political conversation, and hope, with humility and optimism, that our endeavor is accomplished in a manner that would make Our Founders proud.
FOUNDING BIO’S
Andrew Marcus is an independent video and multimedia producer based in the Midwest. For the past several years his work has focused heavily on web distributed political stories in video and blog format.
Early examples of his work include first-person coverage of the Camp Cindy protests in Crawford, Texas, as presented on his blog, “Lights, Camera, Protest!” In 2005, Andrew produced the video blog, “The Mental Ward,” to cover the Ward Churchill visit to DePaul University. In 2006, Andrew led a team of bloggers to produce ground-breaking video coverage of the congressional mid-term elections from Lieberman HQ. In 2007, Andrew produced the video blog, “Incorrect University,” to document politically incorrect actions on campus, beginning with the Terrorism Awareness Project’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. Recently, Andrew has been working closely with FIRE to produce web videos documenting stories of injustice on college campuses. Most recently, Andrew has devoted his energies to producing this blog.
Jim Hoft runs the “Gateway Pundit” blog from Heart of America- St. Louis, Missouri. GatewayPundit has become a major resource for right-of-center news. The site is listed as one of the top 100 collective news resources at Memeorandum and was listed as one of the top 100 blogs in a Carnegie Mellon University study.
Gateway Pundit has been mentioned in the Washington Post, The Australian, The Times, World Net Daily, and several international publications. Half a million readers come to Gateway Pundit each month to read the stories and news that is frequently missed by the mainstream media outlets.
Jim Hoft has a personal devotion to democracy and freedom and follows the freedom movement from inside Iran to the streets of Azerbaijan. Jim Hoft hopes that by spreading the news through pictures, video and personal accounts, the brave and suffering dissidents may reach more hearts in the West. During the 33 Day War between Israel and Hezbollah in July-August 2006, Jim Hoft was one of the bloggers to uncover inaccuracies and bias in the mainstream media reports forcing the New York Times to make a correction.
Jim Hoft was recently invited to International Press Freedom Day at the United Nations. He participated in the Democracy and Security Summit in Prague, Czech Republic in June 2007. He also traveled to Israel with a group of American bloggers on a fact-finding trip in the summer of 2007. Jim Hoft served as Dean at the Incorrect University website during the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week in October 2007. Jim Hoft is grateful to be a voice for those struggling for freedom and truth.
SITE CREDITS
Andrew Marcus – Producer, Contributor
Jim Hoft – Contributor
Allan Sluis – Graphic Designer, Contributor
Michael Kadela – Writer, Contributor
