Several of our favorites have been selected as "credentialed bloggers" for this year's CPAC ("Conservative Political Action Conference"). I fully expect earth-shattering news to come from "Bloggers' Row", as these internet journalists use their new-found access to ask the tough questions that the MSM won't. Digging ever deeper for the truth, these citizen journos will ask embarrassingly tough policy questions that the MSM is afraid to ask.

Why, yes, I am being sarcastic. I have absolutely no doubt that this will be yet another in the long line of supposed watchdogs simply doing the same thing the MSM does, only worse: acting as a transcription service. It will be worse because they aren't as jaded as the jades in the MSM, and some of them might even go as far as asking for autographs and then crowing about it on their sites. Now, of course, that doesn't apply to every single one of them, but let's wait and see.

A list of the attendees (from preview.tinyurl.com/ynovyo) is in the extended entry.

And, if you tried to get credential for CPAC but were denied, please leave comment.

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UPDATE: A brief scan of the blogs listed below shows not an awful lot of Les Kinsolving going on. But, I believe we've located today's winner of the Ryan H. Sager Award in one Sean Hackbarth of "The American Mind". He says:

Phyllis Schlafly, a woman I only think about when I'm at CPAC, spent half her talk railing about immigrants and the english language... Then Schlafly went into kook-land expressing her fears of a "plan to integrate with Mexico and Canada."

Given all of the evidence - and statements from Mexican and Canadian government authorities - supporting her view, I think it's clear who's the "kook".

* Ace of Spades HQ
* Alarming News
* American Mind
* American Spectator
* Ankle Biting Pundits
* Captain's Quarters
* Hot Air
* Human Events
* Fausta's Blog
* Little Miss Attila
* Michelle Malkin
* Musclehead Revolution
* National Journal
* NewsBusters
* NOVA TownHall
* Outside the Beltway
* Politico
* Reasoned Audacity
* Red State
* RobertBluey.com
* SaveTheGop
* SeeJaneMom
* ShopFloor.org
* Spot On
* The Conservative Voice