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Hot Air
Salem Communications
Created byMichelle Malkin
URLhotair.com
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Launched 2006 (2006-MM)
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Hot Air is a conservative American political blog.[1] It is written by the pseudonymous Allahpundit, Ed Morrissey, John Sexton, and Jazz Shaw.

Hot Air was founded by

Salem Communications purchased Hot Air.[4]

History

Malkin launched Hot Air on April 24, 2006. The site's original logo showed an angry man videotaping himself while yelling at the lens. At the time of its founding, the site was to primarily feature video-blogging by Malkin, but this was eventually phased out in favor the more traditional written blog format due to lengthy production requirements for video-blogging.

When founding Hot Air, Malkin stated an intention to provide "content and analysis you can't get anywhere else on a daily basis–both on the blog and in our original video features".[citation needed] In 2008, Malkin recruited Ed Morrissey as AllahP's co-blogger. At that time Morrissey was a full-time, profit-making blogger at Captain's Quarters, which he folded in order to join the Hot Air team (though its archives are still available). Morrissey maintains the podcast that started at his original website ("The Ed Morrissey Show"). This is promoted at and embedded on the Hot Air website.

In 2008, Hot Air added a separate site-within-the site called "The Green Room", inviting select professional and free-lance bloggers to contribute their posts. The Green Room provided bloggers with an opportunity to have their work distributed to the Hot Air audience. Green Room posts were often promoted to Hot Air's main page, in a fashion similar to that of other major political news/commentary sites such as the Daily Kos and RedState. The Green Room was closed in March 2014.[2]

Full-time bloggers

Allahpundit

Main article: Allahpundit

Allahpundit's first site, Allah Is in the House was founded on August 27, 2003. The author wrote in the

Photoshop
-based political satire. After a hiatus in May 2004, the blog reemerged, continuing its satiric nature while largely abandoning the "Allah voice". After October 2004 the blog was updated more sporadically, and the web address allahpundit.com was eventually abandoned. After occasional entries at allahakbar.blogspot.com, Allahpundit shut down his individual blogging operations altogether.

In September 2004, Allahpundit was a key player in debunking the

Killian documents hoax. Mary Mapes, producer of 60 Minutes, blamed Allahpundit and others for "working anonymously in what appeared to be huge numbers, in unison, to destroy the Bush-Guard story".[5] Largely due to this controversy, the website was among the Top Blogs Cited in Political Postings for the 2004 United States presidential election.[6]

The text of posts from Allahpundit's old Allah Is in the House blog are archived at the Internet Archive, although the image files that include AllahP's Photoshopped pictures are not.[7] AllahPundit has stated that he is unlikely to do PhotoShops in the future, due to his grueling writing/posting schedule.

Allahpundit's last day at Hot Air was September 2, 2022.[8]

Ed Morrissey

Main article: Ed Morrissey

Morrissey's previous blog, "Captain's Quarters", was very popular among conservatives.[9] He may be best known for helping expose the Canadian

Gomery commission's hearings, Morrissey published detailed reports on his blog, which became a key source of information about Adscam for Canadians. This episode imparted some bipartisan "street cred" to Morrissey within the libertarian community in the U.S. and in Canada, and elevated his profile.[citation needed
]

Viewpoints

Allahpundit's prominence on Hot Air is a contentious issue for some of the site's most conservative readers. He is often criticized for his comments and posts promoting

beta male"). The Daily Show host Jon Stewart cited Allahpundit as one of several bloggers he reads for his show-prep.[11] The fact that Allahpundit's appearance and geographical location is unknown to the public is often used as an in-joke
, with website commentators offering deliberately farcical and imaginative explanations. During the Michelle Malkin era, Malkin received significant pushback for keeping "Allahpundit" on her payroll, particularly from the more socially conservative readers at Hot Air.

Michelle Malkin posted infrequently on Hot Air during the time she owned the site, but she was occasionally referenced there as "the Boss" (now "Boss Emeritus"). Both Allahpundit and Morrissey publicly disagreed with Malkin's take on the affairs of the day in Hot Air posts, and each has political positions that are significantly different from hers. The team also appears to be fairly independent of the socially conservative Salem Communications, as a spate of gay-friendly posts — and endorsement by Morrissey of the group GOProud — seems to attest.[12] Editorial cartoonist Sarjex of the GayPatriot blog has satirized the controversy by drawing an LGBT version of HotAir,[13] using bright pink colors and cheesecake images of Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

See also

References

  1. ^ "About - Hot Air". hotair.com. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Greenroom Posts - Hot Air". Hot Air. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. ^ Portnoy, Howard (23 March 2014). "End of an era: The Hot Air Green Room is no more". Liberty Unyielding.
  4. ^ "Exclusive: Hot Air Acquired By Salem Communications". Mediaite. 2010-02-17.
  5. ^ Mary Mapes, Truth and Duty, p. 201.
  6. ^ Blogpulse Campaign Radar 2004.
  7. ^ Archives of Allah Is in the House.
  8. ^ @allahpundit (August 3, 2022). "Personal news: My last day at Hot Air will be Friday, September 2" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  9. The Politico. five of the best-read national conservative bloggers [...]: Instapundit, Michelle Malkin, Captain's Quarters, Power Line and Hugh Hewitt
    .
  10. ^ "100,000 Brits download certificates of "de-baptism"". hotair.com. 30 March 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  11. ^ "America Is a Joke". NYMag.com. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  12. ^ Patrick Ishmael (February 20, 2010). "Gays at CPAC: The Sharon Statement, Sorba, and a curious reversal of roles". HotAir.com.
  13. ^ Sarjex (February 23, 2010). ""Gay Air" or "All Queer, All the Time"". HotAir.com.

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