Power Line Explained

Power Line
Type:Conservative blog and news aggregator
Language:English
Author:John H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff
Launch Date:2002
Current Status:Active

Power Line is an American conservative[1] [2] [3] or right-leaning[4] political blog,[5] [6] founded in May 2002. Its posts were originally written by three lawyers who attended Dartmouth College together, namely John H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff. Contributors initially wrote under pen names; John Hinderaker, for example, wrote as "Hindrocket."[7] [8] The site is published by Joseph Malchow, also a Dartmouth graduate.

The site gained recognition for its role in covering the Killian documents story that aired during the 2004 Presidential campaign about forged documents relating to President George W. Bush's term of service in the Texas Air National Guard.[9]

In 2004, Power Line was named Time magazine's first-ever "Blog of the Year".[10] When AOL added blogs to their news website in 2007, Power Line was one of the five blogs included.[11] [12] A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Power Line as one of the five best-read national conservative blogs.[13] CBS News described Powerline as "a prominent conservative blog."[14]

Contributors

The main contributors to Power Line are John H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, Steven F. Hayward, and Lloyd Billingsley.[15] Susan Vass, writing under the name "Ammo Grrrll", contributes a humor column to the site every Friday.[16]

In 2007, Forbes recognised Hinderaker as the #19th "biggest and brightest star on the web" on the strength of Powerline's work on Rathergate.[17]

Rathergate

See also: Killian documents authenticity issues.

Power Line gained widespread recognition during the 2004 Killian documents controversy relating to a CBS report on George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, starting with a post entitled "The Sixty-First Minute";[18] [19] Powerline is credited with helping break the story.[20] [21] Conservatives (including Power Line, National Review Online and Little Green Footballs) referred to the controversy as "Rathergate".[22] [23] The blogs and their readers questioned the authenticity of the documents, presenting hints of supposed forgery. After noting that the alleged documents used a proportional font, Power Line helped advance the story, triggering coverage by mainstream media outlets.[24] Dan Rather apologized and resigned from the CBS anchor chair.[25]

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Notes and References

  1. News: TOBIN HARSHAW . Are Democrats, Too, Facing a Civil War? . 16 April 2021 . . 6 November 2009 . And not from conservative bloggers, either. John Hinderaker of Powerline thinks a rebellion on the fringe may hurt centrist Democrats.
  2. News: Jason Cohen . Holder Holds the Voting Line at LBJ Library . 16 April 2021 . . 14 December 2011 . John Hinderaker at the conservative blog Powerline also enjoyed the symbolism of Holder speaking at the LBJ Library, albeit for very different reasons: “Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965—Holder’s intended reference—but he is also associated with voter fraud.”.
  3. News: CHRISTOPHER BEAM . The Mourning After . 16 April 2021 . . 17 April 2007 . Conservative John Hinderaker at Power Line Blog argues that normally there’s “nothing wrong”.
  4. News: JOHN BOWDEN . CNN's Tapper battles GOP senator over mean tweets . 16 April 2021 . . 11 March 2021 . en . Cornyn tweeted, quoting the right-leaning Powerline blog.
  5. News: ARI SHAPIRO . Bloggers Fire Away on Miers Nomination . 16 April 2021 . . 4 October 2005 . ARI SHAPIRO reporting: John Hinderaker spent yesterday criticizing President Bush on the political Web site powerlineblog.com.
  6. News: JEFF JACOBY . Harry Reid's racial imbroglio . 16 April 2021 . . 13 January 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100116050702/http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/13/harry_reids_racial_imbroglio . 16 January 2010 . At PowerLine, a widely-read conservative blog, John Hinderaker.
  7. Web site: Power Line . https://web.archive.org/web/20030211063242/http://www.powerlineblog.com/ . February 11, 2003 .
  8. Web site: The Claremont Institute: John H. Hinderaker . https://web.archive.org/web/20030207134745/http://www.claremont.org/about/staff/hinderaker.html . February 7, 2003 .
  9. Book: . Blog . 2005 . . 0-7852-1187-X . 6 . 16 April 2021 . 1 . Then Powerline, with a prompt from Free Republic and assists from Little Green Footballs and others in the blogosphere brought down Dan Rather.
  10. Blogs Have Their Day. Unmesh . Kher . December 19, 2004. Time. https://web.archive.org/web/20120504024550/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1009913,00.html. 2012-05-04. dead.
  11. Web site: Introducing Power Line AOL Power Line. February 22, 2007 .
  12. Web site: Power Line Blog | News Bloggers . newsbloggers.aol.com . 11 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070304000738/http://newsbloggers.aol.com/category/power-line/ . 4 March 2007 . dead.
  13. News: GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments. Carrie . Budoff Brown . June 13, 2007. Politico.
  14. News: How Not To Discredit A Poll . 16 April 2021 . CBS News . 23 June 2009 . en . John Hinderaker at Power Line, a prominent conservative blog, pushed back.
  15. Web site: About Us . Powerline . June 20, 2011 . 19 June 2021.
  16. Web site: The 2018 CRB Christmas Reading List . . . 25 July 2023 . 12 December 2018 . Ammo Grrrll Hit the Target: A Humorist’s Friday Columns from Power Line. What do four boring middle-aged white guys need to liven up their group blog? A regular Friday humor column from former standup comedienne Susan Vass.
  17. News: Ewalt . David M. . In Pictures: The Web Celeb 25 . 16 April 2021 . . 24 January 2007 . John Hinderaker is a lawyer and fellow at the conservative Claremont Institute--but his claim to fame is as one of the editors of PowerLine, a right-wing blog best known for its 2004 reporting on "Rathergate.".
  18. Web site: Rathergate . . . 16 April 2021 . 2007 . Of course your most famous bump-up in recognition came during the 2004 election. Can you just lay out the story for us? [...] I called that post "The 61st Minute,".
  19. Web site: The sixty-first minute. Scott . Scott Johnson . September 9, 2004. Power Line.
  20. News: Jenny Attiyeh . Who's got the power? . 16 April 2021 . . 3 February 2005 . Powerline, a conservative blog, was one of the first to raise questions about the authenticity of memos on President Bush’s National Guard service, broadcast by CBS on “60 Minutes.”.
  21. News: John Podhoretz . A Critic's Confession . 16 April 2021 . . 9 November 2015 . Scott Johnson of Powerline, the blog that first surfaced the Rathergate fraud, took on the task of debunking Truth.
  22. News: DAVID WEIGEL . We'll Always Have Dan Rather . 16 April 2021 . . 28 September 2012 . Dan Rather going on air with his 2004 story about George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard, then retracting the story because the key document was forged, then, years later, refusing to apologize. New conservative media—talk radio, blogs, message boards, Drudge—claimed his scalp. One of the key blogs, Powerline, was profiled by Time magazine. “Rathergate” changed the audience’s relationship with the media..
  23. News: Need to Know: Rather Not . 16 April 2021 . . 4 November 2015 . Mona and Jay welcome Powerline blogger Scott Johnson to discuss the “Rathergate” scandal.
  24. News: Courthouse Shooting in Seattle; Bolton Nomination Before the Senate ... Again; The Hunt of Osama bin Laden Continues; Saddam and the Downing Street Memo in the Blogs . 16 April 2021 . . 20 June 2005 . over now to Powerlineblog.com. This is the three conservative lawyers who blog over here and maintain this site. They were the ones who were widely credited, along with their readers, with really blowing what is called in the blogosphere as Rathergate, those CBS documents last year about Bush's National Guard service..
  25. Dan Rather with Digby Diehl, Rather Outspoken,: My Life In the News (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, 2013), page 59.

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