remember ali abdulemam, the blogger in bahrain we were tracking?>> he disappeared on his own? >> we don't know. he disappeared. >> reporter: next, we try to find ali and find a police state.ou g to find a business backed by the superguarantee®? only superpages.com®. for local maps, deals and more, go to superpages.com®. and let the good guys save the day. >> reporter: leaving egypt, flying to the kingdom of bahrain. our plane was largely empty. you definitely know you're heading into an area of unrest when you are one of the only people on the plane headed to that country. >> reporter: days after the egyptian revolution toppled president hosni mubarak, bahraini citizens took to the streets to protest their regime. bahrain has been ruled by a sunni family for over two centuries. the largely shia population has long complained of discrimination. most of the population attended the protests. the crown prince went on tv calling for dialogue. but when unarmed protesters were kill by the bahraini police, the hopes for reforms dimmed. dozens of tanks were

before long the world of bloggers was so big, it was dubbed the blogosphere. today there are more than 50 million active blogs on the web. some are under the auspices of major companies or larger websites. others are run by individuals. many are chatty, personal style reflections, and they usually encourage readers to respond. blogs cover everything you can think of from architecture to zombies. if you know about it or even think you know about it, you can blog. how important do you think bloggers are to the national conversation these days? >> i think pair paramount. i think they're real authentic communities of people talking about really important subjects and really frivolous subjects. >> reporter: deanna brown is ceo of fed rated media which represents thousands of bloggers. >> we're seeing blogs in general make a huge difference in everything from what products people are buying acoliseum the board to who is being elected into public office. >> reporter: which brings us back to congressman weaner's woes. what started on conservative activist andrew breit

today knowing that abc news was closing in on him with the blogger's help. but before he could get to the microphone of his own press conference, the blogger himself showed up and seized the microphone as the congressman's staff looked on in helpless shock. the blogger clarified some aspects of how this story has emergencied and explained just how difficult it can be to try to have family fun on a vacation in palm springs while you're trying to destroy a congressman. >> i want to hear the truth from congressman weiner. quite frankly i'd like an apology for him being complicit in a blame the messenger strategy. that was here what happened. 72 hours in palm springs with your family is excruciating when you are being challenged. why aren't you on vacation? because i'm being accused of being the hacker against the congressman. he said nothing. his minnons perpetuated that falts, malicious mean and then he went on cnn to attack me. i feel he was complicit. >> he also announced that he has a much more graphic photographer of congressman weiner than any we have see

have been detained without trial some of them indeed have been tried such as dr michael no deal a blogger who was just sentenced to three years in prison for criticizing the egyptian military so these signs don't portend very well for egypt's future there is a tension inside the regime right now and my hope is that the egyptian government supports freedom of speech instead of continuing to crackdown on dissidents and bloggers and those who disagree and insult the military so what sort of proportion of that number of seven thousand would have been arrested for political reasons. it seems that the majority of them were swept up during the protest during those weeks of it and revolt in egypt but going forward there are a number of cases that have arisen that are very disturbing just one the other day a young american citizen was in fact arrested in egypt on the charge of spying this is the fabric fabricated charge and it would seem that the egyptian military is taking a turn for the worse and instigating foreign enemies and this is of course a classic sign of dictatorship fomenting external

a lesbian blog helped publicize this blogger.er invented by a man named bill ghraiber. i spoke to him earlier from cincinnati. >> bill ghraiber, welcome. >> hello. >> you created this site, les gets real. a straight guy, former air force pilot. why have you pretended to be a lesbian? >> i was trying to provide a platform for lesbians to speak. actually i didn't do an awful lot of the writing. i have writers that write for the site. mostly what i was doing is news copy. >> but why would you not do that under your own name and you could hire all the lesbians you want, why do this impersonation? why be an imaginary lesbian? >> because i'm a straight white guy and what lesbian is going to want to work for me. >> let me go back to the beginning. i understand you created this character who was a surfer and you have a couple that are gay and that you feel strongly about these issues. but how do you make the leap to saying i'm going to go online and pretend to be a lesbian? >> actually, it was a metamorphosis. it didn't happen overnight.

promise cash for egypt and france's nicolas sarkozy pledge to both egypt and tunisia radio host and blogger stephen leatherman told me earlier that he thinks the money will effectively hand over the sovereignty of egypt to western credits and it's. but here it is dr social he is the first he is the target say enterprises all to western interests on which he will be interned will. ordinary working people so egypt taking money from me are going to get it hearing all of egypt to worse than creditors to let don't steal your resources and absolutely refused to treat people the. way the notion of democracy in tunisia egypt those are absolutely and our ability to work folks in washington to folks will be with you to work for some cause even though they want governments they can control so egypt has a military point to whatever names the emerge from the big old action in egypt

one involving liberal bloggers, the other involving conservative bloggers, republican presidential candidate michelle bachmann as peter was just mentioning, a minnesota congresswoman spoke at the conference. >> we are now two years into an economic recovery. were you aware of that? we're two years into it. now normally when you go into a recovery, you begin to have a dramatic turn around, in fact you start adding jobs at hundreds of thousands of jobs a month. how's the president doing? not so great. that's right. we're now approaching the obama trench of a double dip recession. >> as backmhmann someone actual threw glitter at her. a gay rights activist group claimed responsibility. >>> the long island golf match was -- it gave the two political rivals a chance to talk about some pretty big issues including u.s. debt ceiling, one thing they are mum about, so far, the score. >>> in other news, afghan president hamid karzai says the united states is involve in peace talks with taliban insurgents, he says while there have been no high level meetings, there have been contacts. barbara starr talke

threatened with arrest for filming the arrest of a convicted felon it was the bloggers earlier call to nine one one the police to the location of the phone hoops when the blogger demanded the officer's name he claimed it was officer williams except he forgot his name was actually and thompson the charlotte mecklenburg police department has been unapologetic in this particular instance of harassment with the public information officer rules on harrington saying it charlotte has quote different laws in regards to when and where people are allowed to film. but that's just plain wrong in get low versus new york case one hundred twenty five the supreme court ruled that the first amendment applies to each state including any local government which also means it's cool the party it teaches were i'll be back and black on independence day facebook for the details all right joining me now for a special edition of you the viewer if you will to respond to a particular piece of fan e-mail to the show is none other than the host of freedom ain't radio dot com the most popular philosophy conversat

one involving liberal bloggers, the other involving conservative bloggers.shannon travis joins us now from minneapolis. what is going on there, shannon? >> reporter: well, what's going on, fred, is i'm running down my sneakers trying to shuttle back and forth between the two conferences. they are literally just a few blocks away from each other. let's explain to our viewers what is going on. on the one hand, in one corner, you have a liberal conference of bloggers, internet savvy folks, called the net roots nation. they're in one hotel. and as i mentioned a few blocks away, you have another conference of conservative bloggers, and other people are internet savvy called right online, sponsored by americans for prosperity, big backer of a lot of tea party groups. at stake is literally battles -- internet supremacy for the 2012 election for the presidential race, for the congressional races. so both of these groups are trying to basically spark up enthusiasm, raise money, raise awareness. democrats have traditionally been viewed as having the edge of -- in term

blogger and military analyst. i asked him his thoughts about the growing lack of support for the u.s. wars abroad and what he thought it meant for the country as a whole. it shows that the american people are tired of war and we saw secretary gates to say yesterday that nobody's more tired of war than the military families and the veterans that have served there but now it's showing that what we've all been saying for a long period of time since two thousand and seven after the iraq war two dozen if the iraq surge was done and the american people are catching on board what we've been saying which was it's time to bring these open ended war to it and i'm wondering you know why the disconnect here we think about president obama back when he was candidate obama and his primary challenger in his party was hillary clinton and his one thing before it was jobs and the economy before that became a major issue before the financial collapse it was the war and time and time again he felt at her for voting for the war in iraq

. >> a well-known female blogger has allegedly been abducted in seara. relatives of ameena abdullah has not been seen since she was bundzled into a car yesterday. her blog "gay girl in damascus" has made her a hero of the uprising. >> jon: wow, an openly gay blogger giving president asaad the finger right under his nose. this amina abdullah has real bols. >> over the weekend, 40-year-old tom mcmaster, an american based in scotland, admitted he was the man behind the popular blog "a gay girl in damascus." >> the words of a 40-year-old married american man who claims he just wanted a western audience to care about the story in syria. >> jon: literally, literally has balls. [laughter] what the hell? this brave, gay, missing syrian freedom fighter is none of those things. and by the way, gay girl in damascus. that makes americans care nor about the story? how long has he been out of our country? try blurry photo of congressional genitals in damascus. now you have our attention. [laughter] still, it raises the question, why claim that this fake person amina w

. >> right wing blogger reveals more photos than anthony wiener admits he lied. >> my primary apologies is to my wife, huma. >> when all else fails the truth. >> this was a very dumb thing to do. >> new photos, shirtless photos, the area below his waist. >> somebody ask you if that's a picture of your penis, you say no or you say yes. >> i think it was really great. i think he didn't make his wife stand up there with him. >> while congressman weiner was preparing his apology, breitbart stole his mike and claimed he is a victim. >> essentially hijacking the press conference. >> i'm here for clarification. >> things that are much more consequential than a man's penis. >> sarah palin is still victimizing american history. >> speaking of great americans -- >> defends her paul revere comments. >> you realize you messed up about paul revere. >> i didn't mess up about paul revere. >> ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town -- >> paul revere was warning the british. >> he did warn the british. >> i totally went into professor node. come on, come on. >> washingt

and military analyst take the bear to go and afghan american blogger are so. now the cost of war not just human lives but the livelihoods as well and the direction of the u.s. economy since the war in afghanistan began has been decidedly trending downwards into a hole that many call a recession and some even say is a depression so where is this country going on a constant solutions for our financial boat was reportedly the answer may not be all that positive but let's take a look at the report that our correspondent christiane purrs out for today. two hundred years after the collapse of this nation's economy. the dust is still settling. and decisions on how best to rebuild are still in the works that the economy needs to grow to create jobs our basic challenge is trying to figure out how to make growth faster more sustainable translate to more jobs the lack of jobs has led to widespread homelessness many of this nation's cities and a foreclosure rate still too high to give most americans any hope jordi of americans are understanding that this is not the recess

one blogger continued to push the story. >> that blogger showed up at weiner's news conference before weiner did. >> i would like an apology for him being a come comply sit. > he has another x-rated image of the congressman. new york. >>> and congressman weiner says he never met personally with those women that he corresponded with and not sure how old they were. he never had sex outside of his marriage. here's thoughts from you a little later on in mcginty's mail bag. >>> virginia's mark warner and jim webb are two of six senators calling for stricter driving standards in the bus industry. they sent a message to ray lahood. this less than a week after the bus crash in virginia. that letter comes on a day with two more bus crashes. the first early this morning on interstate 10 in alabama. more than 20 people were injured when a bus there hit a tractor trailer around 12:30 a.m. and more than three dozen people injured when a bus carrying members of a youth marching band crashed in western iowa this morning. that bus blew a tire along i-80 just before 8:00 a.m. >>> well let's take a loo

the blogger says it was released on-line without his permission. weiner's spokesperson apologized, but did not deny the photo is authentic. an investigation could determine if holding news conferences on capitol hill to lie is an ethics violation. >> he used his office and the power of his office to deceive and lie by his own admission. i think yes, he has to go. >> reporter: the republican party is pressuring democrats to return donations from weiner, some already have. now weiner has been off the radar since he made that shocking public announcement, admitting his guilt. he apparently has been on the phone talking to some of his colleagues, apologizing for his behavior. lynn? >> tracie pots in washington, thanks. >>> now here's a look at other stories making news early today in america. a los angeles family's night of fun turned violent last october when a response to noise complaints of one family's halloween party for kids led to accusations of excessive force. newly released home video shows police using batons as they attempt to arrest a part

plus, iran has one of the largest number of bloggers in the world. so you have these iranian bloggers, and then people have cell phone. every other iranian has access to a cell phone, if not every iranian. and so they do text messaging, they're on twitter, they're on facebook, they blog. so, i mean, this protest movement is a very different protest movement than the one in... that lead to the revolution in 1978, '79. this is a very different one because this is an instant messaging takes place, you know? the government, after the june election, expelled all the foreign journalists from iran by refusing to renew their permit. but then they had on their hands 30 million journalists... >> hinojosa: on the ground. >> ...on the ground because everybody, to use their cell phone... >> hinojosa: and we were all getting information from... >> yes, and you were all getting information from them at this end. >> hinojosa: so, finally, haleh, you have not gone back to iran since you were detained there. you say you cannot go back. are you optimistic? should we be

the new boss we're joined by stephen the lead man who's a radio host and an independent blogger in chicago thanks very much for joining us on r.t. now christine legarde takes over the i.m.f. in a turbulent financial time to say the least do you think she has what it takes to deal with the current financial turmoil. oh she really. scully i mean what is in that i'll call christine legarde which she is number one washington who controls the i have a else i just wrote an article on your occupation of greece well because the i.m.f. is intimately and all it was going on in greece and other countries that if they want to get debt entrapped. economist michael refers to were the high and we have put the i.m.f. does replacing economic democracy put financial all of europe the other way to describe it is a bait is there is something the actual. or baker occupation that's what you're all max keiser calls it banker occupation in my article in greece was called your occupation of greece that's what it is. america decided it's here because america controls the us they want to look at her resume stroh's c

if you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is are you going to charge bloggers a big picture. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think the need to be funny well. whatever government says there keep them safe get ready because of the your freedom . for. fear. ok it's time for you said it i read it right take time to respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter. and you too because when you say something i listen i want to start off with a comment from our you tube user a.p. is the good he that and how can you grow in response to my fireside friday about the pentagon's shameless stonewalling of freedom of information act requests for pictures of osama bin laden's body from several news organizations from a.p. to politico and he said i love you but you are wrong on this one we don't need to drag the body through the streets as through so eighteen eleven we were passed that nine hundred eleven now this is where i would like to politely disagree with atheist meet in here that i never said that we should be dr

plenty of liberal bloggers have replicated this hacking today.ve been in there saying look, this is plausible. i'm not techie, i have no idea, i don't tweet. but i just think, you know, when the dow drops 279 points today, the career ending thing is the new jersey governor taking a helicopter going to see his kid's baseball game. what anthony wiener is even accused of doing, even if true, is just nothing. >> wolf, if it is true that this account was hacked or if this was a prank, wouldn't be something the police should be involved with? >> normally, and i checked with capitol hill police and others, the aggrieved party, in this case it would be congressman anthony wiener, has to file a formal complaint that would launch an investigation. i can understand why he doesn't want to do that. that would open up the tweets and taking a look at all that, there would be depositions. you start and investigation like this on capitol hill or fbi or new york city police, you don't know where it's going to wind up. he makes a fair point, i don't want to make a

plenty of liberal bloggers have replicated this hacking today.hey've been in there saying look, this is plausible. i'm not techie, i have no idea, i don't tweet. so this is beyond me. but i just think, you know, when the dow drops 279 points today, the career ending scandal could be the governor of new jersey who is taking a state helicopter apparently yesterday to go see his kid's baseball game. i mean, that's the thing that voters get furious about, spending $2,500 an hour of state money to go to your kid's baseball game. what anthony wiener is even accused of doing, even if true, is just nothing. >> wolf, if it is true that this account was hacked or if this was a prank, wouldn't it be something the police should be involved with? >> well, it could be a crime, there's no doubt about that. normally, and i checked with capitol hill police and others, the aggrieved party, in this case it would be congressman anthony wiener, has to file a formal complaint that would launch an investigation. i can understand why he doesn't want to do that. that wou

back to the guys report imax guys are time now to go to athens and talk with radio show host and blogger at covering delta dot wordpress dot com dimitri fiennes dimitri welcome to the con is the report thanks mike so try me on all right dimitri here on the car as a reporter we recently discussed your coverage of the charges of treason lodged against george papa drills the prime minister give us the details of this case well apparently this as you said i'm on the blogger and i have a radio show in new york and this story just kind of blew up after i heard the allegations made by a member of parliament a certain by this comment as of madame about the ad which is a opposition party in greece it's the other party have kind of a been running the country over the past thirty five years and he made these ideas ations on the floor of parliament where he essentially accused the prime minister of acting as a foreign agent against the greek government and that's the profit in either directly or indirectly as well as possibly members of the family and the members of his cabinet from the sale of one

so i'd like to take a little bit of time out to respond to a blogger out there michael who i'm seeing michael got a pen and he's going to budge when he saw that i guess a blog at the agitator a few weeks ago now for those of you who may not know the agitator is a blog run by one of our frequent guests radley balko where he would take two or three detail the problems of the country's drug war the resulting police brutality the incarceration rate the rampant corruption in the courts and the crime labs and bradley was kind enough to invite me to guest blog while he was away as anybody who watches our show regularly will know these are topics that i care about but according to michael it really rankles it because of where i work r t how dare i have a say in what goes on in my own country and how my country where i was raised where i was educated where i work where i pay taxes where i vote and i like to think contribute to the media culture the good old us of a and you know i always find these arguments so musing from the so-called purists like this blogger because you know what should or.

right wing blogger andrew breitbart of government dot com essentially taking to the stage of congressman anthony weiner's. press conference that was believed that the congressman was going to be there that this wasn't going to be some sort of stunt. or whomever to get publicity about this. he may be leaving the podium. ok the rules of order that my point is that government is the significance. here. we go. i read in my guide you would think that the president of the united states was just about to make a huge announcement that they were they were the way that they are following that breaking news wiener is about and one minute he is going to take the stage or at least that is the plan i mean it really is a little bit more attention than we paid to do you for being a tool but to be able to put in the day for that. sign i was here all of our time a devoted to wiener gate and river rats the breitbart the proven correct i wrote for breitbart big piece item on the editors so i'm a fan of andrew's dreamers and good and he really knew that the only good that he was found out to be you know righ

and joining me now to talk about is craig dixon political blogger from machine smashed dot com craig thanks for being with us tonight good to be on on all right so before we get into what we're seeing in the republican field i don't know if that has anything to do with with bread and circuses probably plenty of insinuation some a fair and so all right we have a very specific concern we want to address because gary johnson my former governor in new mexico who voted for me who is and who was a near constitutional i mean only surpassed really barely in his platform by ron paul gary johnson has been excluded from the scene and paid debate why is that well as they give a lot of arbitrary reasons i mean c.n.n. even invited you know rudy giuliani who has said nothing about whether he's going to actually enter the race for not. seen in supplied the answer that you know gary's polling under two percent i mean but the thing is in his campaign has pointed this out at this point in the race for clinton and for jimmy carter and i think for dukakis as well they were all polling at one percent at t

the prime minister give us the details of this case well apparently this as you said i'm on the blogger and i have a radio show in new york and this story just kind of blew up after i heard the allegations made by a member of parliament a certain by this comment of madame about the i which is a opposition party in greece it's the other party them and have kind of i've been wrong the country over the past thirty five years and he made these ideas a shot of the floor parliament where he essentially accused the prime minister of acting as a foreign agent against the greek government and that he profited needed directly or indirectly as well as possibly members of this family and lost a member of his cabinet from the sale. of the one point three billion worth of credit default swaps from now on it post bank a public banking arm of an arm that the greek government has about thirty three percent stake in two private books to a specific from what he actually maims on the floor of parliament and he actually he actually cites people in the management people on the board it was a pretty deafening

correspondent lauren lyster and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger of black five dot net thanks for joining me guys that is a good weekend. you know i was really hoping over the weekend that maybe we're fever would die out we made fun of the media last week we're just giving it not coverage to this story but then today there are a few new pictures that surface from a lady. those are the pictures right there apparently we don't even know if a small guy kind of packs whatever. jim is looking at me and discuss right now but the best was that wiener that had to give a speech today like all the politicians they've been lying to everybody for weeks and the media just could not believe that this moment was actually happening to take a look. welcome back here to c.n.n. newsroom i'm brooke baldwin any second now congressman anthony weiner is expected to address members of the media from sheraton hotel in manhattan all of this comes one week after the new york democrat begin to answer some questions about a lewd picture from his twitter account and again follo

blogger and military analyst jake silver tell. the question of the u.s. led war effort is one that comes up pretty frequently on the campaign trail over the weekend many of the republican candidates for president gathered in new orleans for the republican leadership conference to talk about their ideas for how to move the country forward among them congressman ron paul the only candidate who has said from day one that the u.s. should not be involved in any of the war efforts that we should withdraw our troops and our money from iraq afghanistan and libya now one time this was an idea that was considered radical on the fringe even and it's one that must be registering more and more turns out ron paul won the straw poll there and while it was barely a contest six hundred twelve votes to the next in line jon huntsman who scored three hundred eighty two perceived different runner mitt romney well he got just seventy four votes ron paul in an interview this morning on the today show says he has a pretty good idea why he has so much support especially from the

blogger and military analyst. so as ron paul consistent anti-war message against traction is the changing tide of u.s. foreign policy quickly winning over followers here at home or her friends of the resident took to the streets. and now. u.s. troops are in iraq and afghanistan and libya and syria are not enough and what are they going to be enough united states of america this week let's talk about that we think about. the americans as being. the world police. good or bad. i don't know but troops there if there is something you want to grow your resources. security or resource. for example with mcdonald's we're number one in the world. the world we can still do it even the. best. we can do it why is that so important to be number one. has to be one of the one. yes i don't think there's any altieri motive. no oil interest no economic interest. what do we want to accomplish. just. to waste the money and the lives of young people you know that you think is maybe another reason that we're doing it of course they want

how can she distinguish herself from a citizen journalist or a blogger? need there be a distinction? that goes into a whole nother question of who is a journalist. nobody wants to tackle that question. >> you should also visit new terms and talk to journalists about what they do. >> i will try to be quick. i think there is a spectrum of journalism and there are professionals. citizen journalists along the spectrum, but they are all valuable. i was going to say, one of the things you should learn how to do is promote yourself and promote your brand. you can get on tomorrow, you can build clips like no other time in history. you can do that on facebook, your web site. learning how to use your network to promote the thing that you care about, what to write about, is a huge scale that the internet will allow you to do. >> my name is claudia. i worked for pat. my question is for everyone on the panel. -- i work for patch. noting the lack of hispanics on the panel, how do newsrooms address in-language content and sourcing? try to get people in the community, th

as reporters waited for the congressman, a surreal atmosphere when blogger breitbart showed up and took to the podium. >> i want to hear the truth from congressman weiner. quite frankly i would like an apology for him being complicit in a blame the messenger strategy. >> reporter: breitbart was looking for vindication saying left wing blogs accused him of hacking congressman weiner's twitter account and it was not true. when the congressman appeared he did apologize to breitbart, the media and his constituents for misleading them. he admitted communicating inappropriately with six women over three-year period through e-mail, facebook and twitter. but the congressman was most emotional when talking about his wife, choking up several times. >> look, my wife is a -- my wife is a remarkable woman. she's not responsible for any of this. >> reporter: congressman weiner expressed regret for his mistake but also made it clear he has no intention to resign. >> new yorkers in his district had mixed emotions. >> he's a very well-respected politician especially in this area and i'm somewhat taken a