Bio of Mirengoff, the "Powerline" guy harrassing Durbin >>>

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Bio of Mirengoff, the "Powerline" guy harrassing Durbin >>>

Edited on Mon Feb-06-06 04:21 PM by Stephanie

Who issued a press pass to this guy? And who told him he was a journalist?

Found his name in this thread, thanks to sabra, and did a little search:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=338017

http://tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com /

Betcha Sen. Durbin Knows About Pajamas Media Now!

Capitol Hill is buzzing with talk of a news conference earlier today in which Powerline's Paul Mirengoff was pushing some hard questions at Sen. Teddy Kennedy, D-MA, and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-IL, about the NSA's anti-terrorist international "eavesdropping" program.

Paul Mirengoff is an attorney in Washington, D.C. He is a 1971 graduate of Dartmouth College and a 1974 graduate of Stanford Law School. He has two daughters and lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland.

Paul supports Everton FC of the English Premier Soccer League, as well as the Washington Redskins, the Washington Wizards, and the University of Maryland basketball team.

http://powerlineblog.com/aboutus.php#deacon

http://www.geocities.com/pmirengoff/mypage.html

Paul Mirengoff is a lawyer at the Akin, Gump firm in Washington D.C. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971 and Stanford Law School in 1974. His law practice has focused primarily on employment litigation. For several years he worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Paul has authored op-eds for several newspapers, including the Washington Post, and is currently a contributor to the Power Line web log, where he writes under his long-time nickname, Deacon. Paul lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and two daughters.

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inane interview here >

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/06/the_normblog_pr_3.html

If you were to relive your life to this point, is there anything you'd do differently? > I wouldn't have been a jerk when I was a teenager.

links to his archived blog, screenname "Deacon," here >

http://powerlineblog.com/deacon.php

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mirengoff

Paul Mirengoff
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Paul Mirengoff (born April 17, 1949) is an American lawyer and a blogger at the Power Line weblog. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971 and from Stanford Law School in 1974.

Mirengoff is currently practising law in Washington D.C. For several years, he worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He started writing articles for publications including the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard and Front Page.

He became a fellow of the Claremont Institute, a conservative institute. Mirengoff formed Power Line, a conservative blog in May 2002 with John Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson who were also fellows of the Claremont Institute. He originally used his nickname Deacon in posting to the blog. The blog gradually built a strong following amongst conservative Americans winning praise from Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, Mark Steyn and Michelle Malkin.

Power Line rose to national prominence during the controversy surrounding a CBS news story on President George W. Bush's stint in the Texas National Guard. Time Magazine awarded Power Line its award of Blog of the Year for 2004 for its work in uncovering the scandal.

Power Line rose to national prominence during the controversy surrounding a CBS news story on President George W. Bush's stint in the Texas National Guard. Time Magazine awarded Power Line its award of Blog of the Year for 2004 for its work in uncovering the scandal.

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/bullpen/paul_mirengoff/backgrounder.html

Backgrounder: Paul Mirengoff
By Elizabeth Tsai

Paul Mirengoff isn’t a journalist, but he plays one on the Web: a Bethesda, Maryland-based lawyer who handles labor and employment-law cases for the Washington, D.C. firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, he is better known, in media circles, as the “citizen journalist” whose blogging, at the conservative political blog Power Line, sparked one of the most talked-about news controversies in recent years.

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In a panel discussion on blogging and the media with Mark Tapscott, director of the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Center for Media and Public Policy, Mirengoff said that the mainstream media has “no real relationship with its audience — they still just want to just tell you how it is. Their attitude will prevent them from getting close to their audience.” He further explained that Power Line doesn’t have this problem because it stays connected to its audience through e-mail. In his opinion, then the bloggers’ attitude toward their audience is different than the mainstream media’s: “Bloggers listen.”

When Mirengoff sat down for an interview with Bill O’Reilly on the O’Reilly Factor of Fox News, he said that Power Line’s writers are committed to expressing their opinions without being constrained and without being bought for anyone else’s agenda. Mirengoff asserted that Power Line is not influenced by partisan contributions that would sway the content of the site. At most the site is only run by modest advertising revenue. He said, “We’re not out to destroy anybody. We try to be about ideas, and we call as we see them. And because we’re not funded we have the freedom to do that.”

In the last analysis, he claimed, Power Line broadcasts “a lot of opining—hopefully…not bloviating—along conservative lines.”

The site is conservative, he readily admits, “but we don’t shield anybody.”

http://akingump.com/attorney.cfm?attorney_id=1209

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PAUL E. MIRENGOFF, Partner
pmirengoff@akingump.com
Washington, D.C. T: 202.887.4354
F: 202.887.4288

Practice Area: Labor and Employment

Paul E. Mirengoff concentrates on employment law.

Mr. Mirengoff has litigated scores of federal employment cases involving all forms of alleged discrimination. His areas of experience include appellate work. He has appeared before most U.S. courts of appeals.

Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Mirengoff was a lawyer in the Washington, D.C., office of Hunton & Williams from 1981 to 1999. His practice there focused on employment litigation but also included labor law and general litigation. From 1976 to 1981 Mr. Mirengoff was a lawyer with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Office of the General Counsel.

Mr. Mirengoff received his A.B. summa cum laude in 1971 from Dartmouth College and his J.D. in 1974 from Stanford Law School, where he served on the Stanford Law Review. He is a contributor to the books Employment Discrimination Law by Schlei and Grossman and Sexual Harassment in Employment Law by Lindemann and Kadue, and the author of several law review articles in the field of employment law. He has also published a column about affirmative action in The Washington Post.

Mr. Mirengoff is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Written Works
"Limiting Discovery of Consensual Sexual or Romantic Relationships in Sexual Harassment Lawsuits," <http://akingump.com/publication.cfm?publication_id=309 > The Trial Lawyer, March/April 2001