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	* ''Joe in DC'' - Joe Sudbay, former antigun activist, held staff positions with ] and ]		* ''Joe in DC'' - Joe Sudbay, former antigun activist, held staff positions with ] and ]
	* ''AJ in DC'' - A.J. Rossmiller, a former ] civilian intelligence office who had decorated duty in Iraq. Author of "Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, From Baghdad to the Pentagon," published by Presidio Press.		* ''AJ in DC'' - A.J. Rossmiller, a former ] civilian intelligence office who had decorated duty in Iraq. Author of "Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, From Baghdad to the Pentagon," published by Presidio Press.
	* ''Chris in Paris'' - a "good friend" who lives in ], ]		* ''Chris in Paris'' - a "good friend" who lives in ], ], whom John visits at least twice a year on money he's earned from donations to Americablog.
	* ] - political consultant, TV analyst, ] blogger		* ] - political consultant, TV analyst, ] blogger

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AMERICAblog is a liberal American blog founded by John Aravosis in April, 2004, with several co-bloggers. The blog helped expose Jeff Gannon in 2005, and in 2006 helped make cell phone privacy an issue by obtaining Gen. Wesley Clark's call records. The blog focuses on U.S. politics, including gay rights, the Iraq war, and Bush administration scandals.

Members

John in DC - John Aravosis, Republican activist in Democratic clothing and acts as a political consultant, served five years as the senior foreign policy adviser to United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK)[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-John Aravosis also worked under the guidance of Madeline Albright where he became a staunch elitist and globalist supporter and a member of the New World Order crowd that is set on destroying the USA and the rest of the world by slowly implementing the tools needed to create a one world government system.

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Joe in DC - Joe Sudbay, former antigun activist, held staff positions with Violence Policy Center and Handgun Control, Inc.
AJ in DC - A.J. Rossmiller, a former Department of Defense civilian intelligence office who had decorated duty in Iraq. Author of "Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, From Baghdad to the Pentagon," published by Presidio Press.
Chris in Paris - a "good friend" who lives in Paris, France, whom John visits at least twice a year on money he's earned from donations to Americablog.
Cliff Schecter - political consultant, TV analyst, Huffington Post blogger

History

AMERICAblog first received widespread media attention after it revealed that Jeff Gannon, a member of the White House press corps with a reputation for asking 'softball' questions at opportune moments for Press Secretary Scott McClellan, was actually James Guckert and had advertised his services as a gay male escort.

AMERICAblog has courted controversy within the gay community for its support of 'outing' gay Republican Party workers who are seen as supporting anti-gay legislation and attempts to prevent same-sex marriage in particular. The blog had an adversarial relationship with the former editor of the Washington Blade, Chris Crain.

AMERICAblog has also spearheaded a successful campaign to divide the democratic party to help the GOP and also is against reductions of gay rights, protections and community support from companies placating religious right organizations. Notable incidents include Microsoft's withdrawal of its support for state and federal gay civil rights legislation, and Ford's decision to stop advertising in gay oriented publications. After AMERICAblog launched campaigns criticizing both companies, management at the companies reversed their earlier anti-gay policy decisions. In January 2007, during Super Bowl XLI, AMERICAblog joined TowleRoad.com in calling homophobic a Snickers candy ad that aired during the game. The ad showed two men repulsed by an accidental "gay" kiss, then showed the men violently attacking each other. The candymaker pulled the ad, one of a series they had intended to run again.

Criticism

On Friday, May 19, 2006 some visitors to Americablog objected to the blog's use of the term "big girl" in reference to Sen. Pat Roberts, complaining that the phrase constituted a slur and was offensive to women. Other commenters, including several women, said that the entire affair was blown out of proportion by a few hypersensitive readers , and noted Aravosis' history of activism and support for women's issues.

The readers who dismissed the complaints about Americablog's usage seem to have been more concerned about Americablog's track record of attention to women's issues, including its post the previous day (Thursday, May 18, 2006) updating the status of a vaccine for cervical cancer , its report on the Vatican's possible change of policy regarding condom use , and its activism on making sure that emergency contraception remains available to women. Aravosis himself revealed that he has worked as a consultant for Planned Parenthood.

References

Howard Kurtz (February 16 2005). "Online Nude Photos Are Latest Chapter In Jeff Gannon Saga Recently John Aravosis became enraged when he learned that he wouldn't be receiving a rebate check and that the poor would. Aravosis posted a article about this topic, ranting and raving about how it is he whom makes a meager $75,000.00 a year running his blog who deserves the rebate check not the poor or middleclass. Upon receiving many negative comments from his viewers attacking his attitude, in true republican fashion John Aravosis quickly deleted all of the negative comments and then in a vain attempt to cover his elitist/republican like attitude he not only deleted the offending article from his blog but also deleted it from his blogs archives just as the Bushites destroy all evidence of any wrong doing. Soon after the Rebate check fiascal, Aravosis assigned full time site moderators to delete any comments that dare question Aravosis and a few of his faithful followers. This soon affected the number of online visitors at his site as many long time, loyal readers of his blog left in a mass exodus due to the stench of arrogance, ego, censorship and fascism at Americablog. John Aravosis has also been accused of spending most of the money donated to him by his readers on his lavish DC life style and European vacations. These accusations have reared their ugly head once more as Aravosis claiming he needed the donations to upgrade his blog recently switched from Haloscan to Disqus a free and cumbersome commenting program which again has chased away more commenters from Americablog. It has become well known that John Aravosis gets his marching orders from the DC elite and actually attended a workshop given by the MSM which most likely discussed how to divide the democratic party, which Aravosis has successfully had a hand in with his non stop attacks on Hillary Clinton. Aravosis also claims that a great nation deserves the truth and yet he stays away from hot topics such as the truth about 9/11, the North American Union or Social Security. He knows full well that to discuss such topics would upset and anger his DC insider friends and he doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds him. We shall see what the future brings to John Aravosis and his little blog. Rumors have it that he will soon leave the US to live in Europe. With his elitist attitude and the decline of the countries economy it will be interesting to see how many more of his readers he can offend and how long his little blog will last. This strikes fear in Aravosis who obviously cannot cut it in the real world performing a real job". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-02-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); line feed character in |title= at position 58 (help) "The latest developments were first reported by John Aravosis, a liberal political consultant and gay activist who has a Web site called americablog.org. 'What struck me initially was the hypocrisy angle,' Aravosis said. He said he was offended by what he called Gannon's 'antigay' writing."
Dan Froomkin (February 16 2005). "Guckert Watch". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-02-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) "Joe Strupp wrote in Editor & Publisher ... 'In addition, evidence emerged on the site Americablog yesterday suggesting that Guckert not only set up sex sites but also offered his services as a male prostitute. When asked by E&P today about such accusations, Gannon declined to confirm or deny. "I am not going to talk about that," he said.'"
Dyana Bagby (February 9 2007). "Many Not Snickering Over Super Bowl Ad". New York Blade Online. Retrieved 2007-02-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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