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While the hub for Internet-Americans that hate Barack Obama is clearly Ed Hale’s hcsfjm.com, its closest rival appears to be the “Nobama Network,” which describes itself as “a portal site designed to bring together the Grass Roots Movements in America spawned by outrage over the actions of the DNC disenfranchising voters, reassigning delegates, selecting their illegitimate Nominee and diminishing the most basic factor that makes America great, our right to vote and be heard!” Among the sites on this “portal” are the 40-50 worst sites on the entire Internet. Including your Wonkette! MORE »

Your Wonkette is in Vanity Fair (the one with the cover breasts of, let’s see, yes, Angelina Jolie), in this blog chart thing showing various levels of boredom/earnestness of the famous blogs of the Internet. We did not realize our headlines were so funny, or that our articles weren’t. Anyway, this just goes to show it doesn’t take much to be America’s Wittiest Political Blog. [Vanity Fair]

YOU GOT YOUR POLITICS BLOG IN MY ALT-WEEKLY: If you’re in LA you can get a whole week’s worth of national political scandal & shame by picking up the newly redesigned City Beat. The column is called … Weekette! [LA City Beat]

• HI, ATTACK OF THE SHOW: Your Wonkette was on this G4 teevee show, and you can watch the video! MORE »

COMMENTERS: WE FEEL YR PAIN! We are aware of the ongoing tragedy, in that many of Wonkette’s loyal, bestest commenters are still locked out of the system, even though they’ve tried to re-register, and did everything as instructed. Hold tight; the tech team is working to fix it, and like Hillary, we shall overcome (these minor technical difficulties). Will post an update as soon as the problems are resolved. Sorry!

• “Interview with Ken Layne, new owner of Wonkette.” [Los Angeles Times' Web Scout]
• “Breaking: Gawker Media selling Wonkette blog; spinning off three sites.” [Politico/Calderone]
• “Wonkette’s like that aunt who gets bombed at every family function. And has Tourette’s. What would D.C. media be without it?” [Washington Post Express]
• “Wonkette Leaves the Gawker Empire.” [DCist]
• “Blogonomics: Selling Wonkette.” [Conde Nast Portfolio]
• “With the sale of Wonkette smack-dab in the middle of an election season, where will Gawker Media readers go for political coverage?” [Fishbowl NY]
• “Gawker says goodbye to Wonkette.” [Los Angeles Times]

So, anything happening in the media news today? Wait, WHAT? Yes it’s true: Wonkette is bravely leaving the Gawker Media nest, along with Gawker’s music and travel sites. Why on Earth is a beloved publication such as Wonkette taking this plunge — during the biggest, nuttiest presidential election in 48 years — and are we being pushed? Six million page views in March, a million monthly unique visitors who are “somewhat male, more affluent [and] more educated” and who “read Gawker and subscribe to Vanity Fair” …. Why does Corporate America hate the “somewhat male” demographic? The answers may shock you! MORE »

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*MAKE YOUR WONKETTE FEEL PRETTY:* Ruh roh, voting for the 2008 Weblog Awards, commonly called the “Bloggies,” ends tonight at 10 p.m. EST. Your favorite Wonkette, which Google News categorizes as satire, earned a nomination for Best Weblog About Politics. If this is confusing to our readers, reconsider the wording of “About Politics,” and in some rare foreign cults we might be considered the “Best” at this. Go vote hooray! [2008 Bloggies]

Jesus christ didn’t the Bloggies just happen? And didn’t they happen just before that, and before that? Everything is an institution, including and especially the beloved blog-award system known as The Bloggies. We are honored to be nominated again as “Best Politics Blog That Hates Politics.” And happy nomination to our comrades Glenn Reynolds and Markos Moulitsas and Arianna Huffiington and John Amato, who have joined us in this rotten pursuit for so many, many years. [The Bloggies]