Power Line

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Power Line
Type of site
Conservative blog and news aggregator
Available inEnglish
FoundedMay 27, 2002 (2002-05-27)
Created byJohn H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff
URLwww.powerlineblog.com Edit this at Wikidata
Launched2002
Current statusActive

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]

  1. ^ TOBIN HARSHAW (November 6, 2009). "Are Democrats, Too, Facing a Civil War?". The New York Times. Retrieved April 16, 2021. And not from conservative bloggers, either. John Hinderaker of Powerline thinks a rebellion on the fringe may hurt centrist Democrats
  2. ^ Jason Cohen (December 14, 2011). "Holder Holds the Voting Line at LBJ Library". Texas Monthly. Retrieved April 16, 2021. 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. ^ CHRISTOPHER BEAM (April 17, 2007). "The Mourning After". Slate. Retrieved April 16, 2021. Conservative John Hinderaker at Power Line Blog argues that normally there's "nothing wrong"
  4. ^ JOHN BOWDEN (March 11, 2021). "CNN's Tapper battles GOP senator over mean tweets". The Hill. Retrieved April 16, 2021. Cornyn tweeted, quoting the right-leaning Powerline blog
  5. ^ ARI SHAPIRO (October 4, 2005). "Bloggers Fire Away on Miers Nomination". National Public Radio. Retrieved April 16, 2021. ARI SHAPIRO reporting: John Hinderaker spent yesterday criticizing President Bush on the political Web site powerlineblog.com
  6. ^ JEFF JACOBY (January 13, 2010). "Harry Reid's racial imbroglio". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on January 16, 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2021. At PowerLine, a widely-read conservative blog, John Hinderaker
  7. ^ "Power Line". Archived from the original on February 11, 2003.
  8. ^ "The Claremont Institute: John H. Hinderaker". Archived from the original on February 7, 2003.
  9. ^ Hugh Hewitt (2005). "1". Blog. Thomas Nelson. p. 6. ISBN 0-7852-1187-X. Retrieved April 16, 2021. Then Powerline, with a prompt from Free Republic and assists from Little Green Footballs and others in the blogosphere brought down Dan Rather
  10. ^ Kher, Unmesh (December 19, 2004). "Blogs Have Their Day". Time. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012.
  11. ^ "Introducing Power Line AOL | Power Line". February 22, 2007.
  12. ^ "Power Line Blog | News Bloggers". newsbloggers.aol.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2007. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  13. ^ Budoff Brown, Carrie (June 13, 2007). "GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments". Politico.
  14. ^ "How Not To Discredit A Poll". CBS News. June 23, 2009. Retrieved April 16, 2021. John Hinderaker at Power Line, a prominent conservative blog, pushed back