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My pal Ben ran into Ana Marie Cox in the lobby of the hotel where CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) got underway this morning. He knows I'm a huge fan so he stuck his video camera in her face and made her give me this rousing shout-out.
If you look closely you can see her eyes darting about, looking for security.
But it's the thought that counts and I'm delighted Ben cared enough to put himself –and Ms. Cox– through such an ordeal.
"Hello, AMC."
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When you have almost 50,000 folks following your Twitter feed, a little guide book comes in handy. Here’s a snippet from Ana Marie Cox’s:
“I cover Washington and am somewhat obsessive about politics in general so you’ll be getting what is a basically a live feed from inside my head regarding whatever I’m doing that day: Attending a White House briefing, going up to the Senate, watching C-SPAN, trying to figure out why that small man from Alabama is so angry… (Here I am referring to Sen. Jeff Sessions, aka, “the littlest Senator,” aka “the Southern leprechaun.”) Because I also have a “blue” streak (not talking politics here) you will also get hopefully funny interpolations of wonkspeak into what I like to call “sexytalk.” See here, for examples, for what happens when congressmen start talking about how a “stimulus” requires a “big package.”
If you like your politix serious, you can skip AMC. Has she been on the Daily Show yet and why not?
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Suppose you had a friend that was really smart and funny, and that friend got to cover and live-blog White House press briefings that you could watch “with” her (on C-SPAN) and chat back and forth. Does that sound like something you might be interested in?
Okay, Ana Marie Cox isn’t a friend of mine but she feels like one. I’m one of her legion of fans that go back to the Wonkette days. She now works for Air America.
I don’t know if this is journalism or not and I don’t care. In the same way I don’t care what you call The Daily Show. I call it fun and interesting.
I think of this as the MST3K effect. Even a boring press conference is fun if you’re watching it “with” fun people.
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Okay, she’s not the Wonkette anymore but that’s where many of us fell in love with AnaMarie Cox. From the press release:
“Air America Media has hired Ana Marie Cox as its first Washington, D.C.-based national correspondent, travelling the country to profile people and stories illustrating life in America. She will contribute text, video and audio content to airamerica.com, as well as to a weekly program to air on Air America’s radio network. Cox will debut on Air America on Monday, January 19 to report from the nation’s capital for Air America’s Inauguration coverage.”
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Ana Marie Cox interviewed Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. I was wondering why she posted the audio-only interview to YouTube when slides started started flashing up. Sort of like sub-titles of what she was thinking as she asked and/or he answered.
It would have been tempting to throw up some stills but not doing so was more effective. I can’t recall seeing something like this before. I cross-posted from politix because I found the approach intriguing.
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Ana Marie Cox was covering the McCain campaign for Radar Magazine until it shut it’s doors on Friday. AMC tweeted us to her blog for the story:
"It will cost about $1500 to cover just the last day of the campaign, and over $1000 a day for each day leading up to it. While I still blog for TIME’s "Swampland" * — and I will for as long as they let me! — I am without a source for travel funds. So, you know, anyone interested in sponsoring a foul-mouthed blogger, slightly used?"
Like a public radio fund drive, she offered premiums for different levels of giving.
"Over $100: My instant message screen name, regular personal updates via email and/or instant messages on election night."
I kicked in$150 because I’m a fan and liked the idea of helping a blogger. Seems like I wasn’t alone.
"At the moment, donations come to about $2500 — a thousand past my goal of simply seeing the McCain campaign off into the gentle night come Nov. 4 (literally! sort of!), and just about enough to cover spending election eve out on the trail as well."
Ana Marie is hardly the first blogger to ask her readers to support her work. But I think I would have been willing to pay $5 or $10 a month for a year to fund her efforts. Is this some kind of model for the future?
Update: 10/28/08
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“Unfortunately, humanity seems to lack the backbone to demand that the elderly continue to contribute until they terminate. Instead we both indulge their laziness and demean them, locking them away in retirement homes while they slowly rot in a medicated stupor. The thought seems to be, the elderly, like most minority groups, enjoy being grouped together in a designated living area. But what if we stripped them of their pills and deprived them of their Rascal scooters, perhaps the elderly would stand up and face death like a man: head on, in a battle royal. Win or lose, they’d be more alive than they are now, even if the exertion caused them to cease living.”
When my time comes, I want to fight it out on Elderly Island. [via Anamarie]
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Tell me what is better than two hot geekettes talking trash early in the morning. No, I’ll tell you. Nothing!
“When the chips are down and all the prayers to God to win the election and protect you from witchcraft haven’t worked, everyone knows it’s time to call in the big guns: the forces of evil. And, if they’re too busy helping the Axis of Evil get nukes and shit, well, then you can always call in the forces of pettiness and covert racism, as they’ve been helpful in many an election here in the States. But Swampland’s Ana Marie Cox and I will insist on, at a minimum, throwing rhetorical spitballs at the hordes and making assfucking jokes as the sky is falling, so there’s that.”
Best line: “Pfister? I hardly knew her.” Read the post.
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I think I could count on one hand the number of times I heard or read the word “snarky” before email (and blogging) came along. I subscribe tot he notion snarkiness requires a certain level of wit and charm. Otherwise, it’s just bitchy or whiny.
My first snark crush (I’m still not over her) was the Wonkette. The nome de blog of Ana Marie Cox. Ms. Cox was an early blogger who now snarks (last time, I promise) on Time’s Swampland. I trot along after her on Twitter and found a link to a delightful exchange with Megan at Jezebel.com.
“Since the world is ending around us, it’s important to take note of what parts of our civilization fell and in what order. And, really, there’s no one better at documenting mayhem than the original Wonkette (the rest of us are just pale imitations), Ana Marie Cox.”
And then there’s this exchange regarding McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds:
ANA MARIE: “They really need to stop sending the twelve-year-old intern out to the morning shows. Or cable shows, I mean. I think I was thinking “morning show” because he’s getting his ass kicked, in all cases, by heavily rougued faux-next-girls! GIRLS!
MEGAN: Actually, the man just needs to, like, fucking prepare before he goes. Your candidate is out lying like he’s Dick Cheney or something, you gotta put your big boy panties on just like Ari Fleischer did and take it. I think the real problem is that Tucker Bounds likes getting spanked by hot women.
I’ve heard the “big boy panties” reference before but it was “big girl panties.” Someone in the Bush administration?
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Personal Democracy Forum/techPresident: "Starting tonight, a designated representative of both of the major presidential campaigns are going to participate in a free-wheeling debate on technology and government, moderated by Time magazine blogger Ana Marie Cox and channeled via Twitter."
This is probably one of those ideas that sounds more interesting than they turn out to be. But I’ll be following along, just because I have the hots for AMC.
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