Well, This Is A First

I'm giving Hackio some credit here. Though if it wasn't for Greg Sargent, I wouldn't have known at all.

Can a liberal blog launched in the midst of the Bush era – a blog that once obsessed over Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove and the outing of Valerie Plame – still make its mark in the age of Obama?

In the case of Think Progress, the answer so far is yes.

Now this one of the few errors that Politico got wrong, coming up

Since January, the online arm of the Center for American Progress Action Fund has embraced its new role as the pin to prick the air out of Obama opposition — largely by offering up evidence that powerful Washington interests are fertilizing grassroots conservative anger.

Think Progress mission really is to combat all conservative agenda and lies by doing reporting and fact checking, not being the defender of the Obama Administration. That writing by Politico still gives a viewpoint that Think Progress won't call out the powerful and the special interests if they side with some Democrats at all. Because they sure as hell will when they need to.

Still though, despite the also inclusion of FreedomWorks and Bill O'Reilly talking points trying to smear Think Progress, it wasn't another embarrassment for Politico.

The good Lord knows how many that they have had this year alone.