Billmon
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}}{{Infobox person
| name = Billmon
| nationality = American
| occupation = Blogger
| known_for = Published material critical of the US Invasion of Iraq on his blog called Whiskey Bar
}}
Billmon was the pseudonym of an allegedly American blogger, who provided his own analysis and commentary on political topics, and who was mainly active in the early 2000s when he published material critical of the US Invasion of Iraq. His blog was called Whiskey Bar.{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|465712245}} |last1=Rubin |first1=Daniel |title=As blogger burns out, his fame fades, too |work=Knight Ridder Tribune Business News |date=15 April 2006 |page=1 }}
Career as a blogger
Billmon was one of the earliest participants at DailyKos. His own blog, Whiskey Bar, came into being in the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. The actual name of the blog Whiskey Bar is taken from a line from Bertolt Brecht's "Alabama Song," quoted at the top of the blog.{{Cite web |title=About Moon Of Alabama |author=Bernhard |url=http://www.moonofalabama.org/about.html |accessdate=2012-03-06}}
He wrote extended pieces on domestic politics, the Iraq war, and the US economy.
At the end of June 2004 Billmon announced that he would be closing them down.{{Cite web |title=MoA - MoA Census Summary |url=https://www.moonofalabama.org/2005/01/moa_census_summ.html |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=www.moonofalabama.org}}
Billmon continued posting his analysis and comments, with some periods of inactivity, over the following two and a half years.
On December 28, 2006, Billmon stopped blogging at The Whiskey Bar,{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|459612073}} |last1=Rubin |first1=Daniel |title=At Whiskey Bar, was it last call? |work=McClatchy - Tribune Business News |date=3 January 2007 |page=1 }} and the URL www.billmon.org became unavailable. In late April 2007, a more or less complete copy of Whiskey Bar re-surfaced, but was down again by October 2007. On July 31, 2008, Billmon returned to Daily Kos to post a diary entry in regard to John McCain's presidential campaign entitled "The Great White Hope," and posted sporadically on DailyKos afterward, also maintaining a Twitter account, which was deactivated at the end of 2016.
References
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External links
- [https://www.moonofalabama.org/ Moon of Alabama (Spin-off website by Bernhard)]
- [http://billmon.dailykos.com/ Billmon's Diary at Daily Kos (inactive last entry 2013)]
- The Whiskey Bar (inactive) https://web.archive.org/web/20060413093141/http://www.billmon.org/ ([https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.billmon.org archived (inactive last 2006)])
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