Blog Bash nominees ... winners to be announced at CPAC

Conservative bloggers have nominated their peers for their annual awards. Co-hosts of Blog Bash, Ali A. Akbar and Melissa Clouthier, have announced this year’s Blog Bash Award Nominees. Blog Bash is a yearly gathering honoring center-right bloggers and is the largest invite-only event at CPAC.

“I’m so proud to once again be part of the tradition of honoring bloggers across the country,” said Clouthier. “These folks are the tip of the activist spear, and continue every year to be the best weapon against a biased media.”

The Blog Bash awards allow bloggers to be rewarded for excellent reporting and analysis. Ali Akbar, the National Bloggers Club President, claims “The awards are now the industry standard for highlighting both citizen and professional journalism.”

Nominees for this year include Dana Loesch or Best Activism Post of 2012; the popular film, Hating Breitbart for Movie of the Year; and Steven Crowder for Best in Show: Video, over his recent brawl with union members in Michigan. Past winners have included Michelle Malkin, James O’Keefe and the late Andrew Breitbart.

The 2013 Blog Bash Award Nominees Are…

Bloggers’ Choice: Non-Profit Blogger of the Year
Lachlan Markay, Heritage Foundation Foundry Blog

Sean Hackbarth, Chamber’s FreeEnterprise.com

Jim Pethokoukis, AEI

Amelia Hamilton, Freedomworks

Ilya Shapiro, CATO

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Best Activism Post of 2012

Lee Stranahan, Everyone blog about Brett Kimberlin Day

Angela Morabito,  Sandra Fluke doesn’t speak for me

Dana Loesch, Donors offers $$ For Info Leading To Arrest Of Union Thug

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Best Investigative Post of 2012

Robert Stacy McCain, ‘A Faint Whiff of Vigilante Hysteria’: Weinergate’s Kimberlin Connection

Legal Insurrection – Bill Jacobson, Cruel irony in Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee saga

Liberty Chick – Anonymous Takes Out the FTC in Protest Over ACTA, Google Privacy

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Best Sunlight Post of 2012

Complete Colorado – Emails Show White House Drove Failed Green-Loan in Colorado
Richard Swier, Watchdog Wire – “Vote for Obama” Pledge Prof Under Investigation

Brian Sikma, Ohio Media Trackers – Press, Prosecutor Ignored Protester’s Harassment of Reporters

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Bloggers’ Choice: Movie of the Year

Hating Breitbart

Runaway Slave

Frack Nation

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Best In Show: Podcast

Fingers Malloy (Podcast)

Coffee & Markets (Podcast)

The Willie Lawson Show (Podcast)

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Best In Show: Twitter

David Burge (@IowaHawkBlog)

Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon)

Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter)

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Best In Show: Video

Ben Howe, Bruce Carroll, and Chris Loesch/Shock City Studios – Not Without My Chicken (Video)

Steven Crowder – Unions Assault on Camera! (Personality)

Julie Borowski – Lena Dunham: First Time Parody (Personality)

Scottie Hughes – DNC County Chairman: Christians Want Jewish People to Die (Video)