Netroots

Michael Falcone of The New York Times' The Caucus blog is reporting that organizers of the liberal blogger conference Netroots Nation are insisting that if Fox News wants credentials to the event, currently being held in Austin, Texas, they need special tags designating them "opinion media."

"Fox News calls itself fair and balanced, but it’s not," Mr. Falcone quotes Josh Orton, the political director for Netroots.

Fox News' response? According to The Times, the network isn't sending anyone to the event. Take that!

Perhaps despairing of the continuing interest of the traditional media in his office's entanglements with Joe Bruno, Eliot Spitzer has opened up a new public relations front.

He recently posted on the Huffington Post and on Daily Kos, speaking, in theory, directly to one of the most motivated and active parts of the Democratic base (which notably hasn't rushed to Spitzer's defense over the trying past few weeks).

A spokesman for Huffington Post said that they reached out to Spitzer after hearing that he was giving a major speech, and confirmed that yesterday’s item was his first post there.