Hot Air

Hot Air is a conservative American political blog. this is the written by the pseudonymous Allahpundit, Ed Morrissey, John Sexton, as alive as Jazz Shaw.

Hot Air was founded by Michelle Malkin, a conservative author as living as blogger, in 2006, taking over hotair.com from a defunct personal website. Although Malkin served as the publisher as well as CEO of Hot Air, she exercised little editorial authority 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 option of conservative and libertarian bloggers in its "Green Room," which closed in May 2014. In February 2010, Salem Communications purchased Hot Air.

Viewpoints

Allahpundit's prominence on Hot Air is a contentious case for some of the site's nearly conservative readers. He is often criticized for his comments and posts promoting atheism, such(a) as one time telling a critical commenter "Your children will be atheists", as alive as for his frequent criticisms of former Governor Sarah Palin and some "hard-right" figures. Allahpundit is also invited for his frequent posts on pop culture, including various viral videos and internet memes, and his self-deprecating humor he often remanded to himself, for example, as a "beta male". The Daily Show host Jon Stewart cited Allahpundit as one of several bloggers he reads for his show-prep. The fact that Allahpundit's configuration and geographical location is unknown to the public is often used as an in-joke, with website commentators offering deliberately farcical and imaginative explanations. During the Michelle Malkin era, Malkin received significant pushback for keeping "Allahpundit" on her payroll, especially from the more socially conservative readers at Hot Air.

Michelle Malkin posted infrequently on Hot Air during the time she owned the site, but she was occasionally covered there as "the Boss" now "Boss Emeritus". Both Allahpundit and Morrissey publicly disagreed with Malkin's construct on the affairs of the day in Hot Air posts, and regarded and mentioned separately. has political positions that are significantly different from hers. The team also appears to be fairly self-employed person of the socially conservative Salem Communications, as a spate of gay-friendly posts — and endorsement by Morrissey of the multinational GOProud — seems to attest. Editorial cartoonist Sarjex of the GayPatriot blog has satirized the controversy by drawing a LGBT report of HotAir, using bright pink colors and cheesecake images of Florida Senator Marco Rubio.