Crooks+and+Liars



= About =

Crooks and Liars is a political blog created by John Amato that favors democrats. The blog was launched in September of 2004. Crooks and Liars originally only showed audio and video of political events and discussions but began posting original material breaking its own news and interviews in 2005.

= Founder =

John Amato has played with or recorded for The Goo Goo Dolls, Ringo Starr, Duran Duran, The Knack, Eddie Money, John Taylor, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagen of Velvet Revolver, Ronnie Montrose, Glen Hughes of Deep Purple and Elliot Easton of The Cars. He has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, USA Today, and The Washington Post and was part of CNN's election night coverage in 2006 [|via Newsweek]

July 20th 2009 President Obama and David Axlerod hosted a[| conference call] with liberal Bloggers including Amato to discuss his proposed health care reform bill. = = = = = Advertising =

The site has no control over the advertising being done on their website. = = = Awards =


 * Best Video Blog - Weblog Awards 2006
 * Best Weblog about Politics - Weblog Awards 2008
 * 25 best blogs of 2009 - Time Magazine

= Comments =

Crooks and Liars does not allow anonymous blog commenting. Users that have created an account can edit their comments until another user replies to it. Once an additional comment has been made the user no longer has access to edit it. = = = Social Media =


 * Facebook 600 fans
 * Twitter over 4,000 followers

= Traffic = = =

Total --- 239,810,232
 * Visits **

This Week- 855,596
**//Page Views//** Total- 381,686,103

This Week-- 1,225,429
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= Video Blogs/Media =

The site was one of the first political blogs to feature video blogs, or "[|vlogs]" which was groundbreaking in the pre-YouTube days of the Internet. Popular features of the blog include audio and video archives of political events, television and radio shows, interviews, and various breaking stories. Crooks and Liars also frequently uses television clips from [|The Daily Show], [|The Colbert Report], [|Hardball with Chris Matthews], [|The O'Reilly Factor], [|Glenn Beck], and [|Countdown with Keith Olbermann].

= Popular Targets =

The site frequently takes jabs at [|John McCain], [|Glenn Beck], [|Bill O'Reilly], [|Sarah Palin], [|Rush Limbaugh], [|Fox News], = = =[|Late Nite Music Club]=

At the end of each day Crooks and Liars does a post featuring a song or music video chosen by one of the writers, this usually opens a discussion as to what music the readers are listening to. They occasionally have [|special guests] contribute.

//This page was created by Brittany Nelson and Gavin Matela as part of the coursework for the Winter 2010 semester of PrnJ 493A - Blogging and Interactive Journalism//