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Type of site | Political blog |
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Available in | English |
Owner | Salem Communications |
Created by | Michelle Malkin |
URL | hotair |
Registration | Optional, required to comment |
Launched | 2006 |
Current status | Online |
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Conservatism in the United States |
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Hot Air is a conservative American political blog.[1] It is written by the pseudonymous Allahpundit, Ed Morrissey, John Sexton, and Jazz Shaw.
Hot Air was founded by Michelle Malkin, a conservative author and blogger, in 2006, taking over hotair.com from a defunct personal website. Although Malkin served as the publisher and CEO of Hot Air, she exercised little editorial control over the site's various commentators. Morrissey, a Roman Catholic, is the more socially conservative (though gay-friendly) of the two current bloggers, whereas Allahpundit is more libertarian and an atheist. Hot Air carried posts from a selection of conservative and libertarian bloggers in its "Green Room", which closed in May 2014.[2][3] In February 2010, Salem Communications purchased Hot Air.[4]