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There’s another Digg Townhall coming up, and as we always do, we plan on liveblogging the event here at Mashable. Sean P. Aune and I will be hosting the event, offering commentary and moderating the chat.

This Digg Townhall will be, as Kevin put it, “a bit of a twist.”  It’ll be webcast live from the Digg Stage at The Big Tent a this year’s DNC in Denver.

If you want to affect the topics that’ll come up for discussion, you’ll want to head on over to this thread on Digg to vote up or bury down the questions that Kevin and Jay will address on the show.

Otherwise, just save the date: hursday, August 28th at 1:30 pm PST/4:30 EST. Sean and I will be waiting to hang out for the duration!

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Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin was beset by a horde of self-described leftist anarchists not far from the site of the Democratic National Convention earlier today. The mob was lead by well known left-wing conspiracy theory radio show host Alex Jones, who was there to lead a protest designed to (and I’m not exaggerating at all) levitate the Denver Mint so as to shake out all the money. The mob was organized under the banner “Re-Create ‘68″, with the goal of re-igniting the riots of 1968 around the Chicago Democratic Convention.

Alex Jones is indeed a left wing blogger (with an army of left wing bloggers under his New Media umbrella). He’s the curator of a number of New Media websites often cited by the left, including InfoWars, PrisonPlanet, The Jones Report, and Truth News.

Jones, accompanied by little more than a handful of protesters that showed up for the event were documented chanting “Kill Michelle Malkin,” only moments after chanting their previous refrain of “Love! Peace! Justice!”

After shouting orders out to his followers to “not let Michelle Malkin leave,” Alex Jones and the small mob of protesters (followed by the much larger mob of press) harangued and screamed a bevvy of personal and ideological attacks for a number of blocks, as the diminutive Malkin attempted to calmly flee the scene.

But for a bit of shoving, a lot of yelling and a number of intimidation tactics, no physical violence directly against Malkin took place, but as the video captured by Pajamas Media reporters on the scene shows, it couldn’t have been a picnic for Michelle.

What’s most irritating is that once again, tactics that originate from left-wing bloggers have bled into meatspace and painted a picture that puts all of New Media in a poor light.

Of course, I’m referring to the lousy vetting process that was in place during the Republican Primary YouTube debates. It was discovered during the broadcast of the show that one of the questioners was a plant from one of the Democratic campaigns, and a careful analysis of the rest of the bunch showed that almost half of the questioners were Democratic plants, staffers, organizers or bloggers. The net result was that the first “New Media” handled presidential debate in history had a black eye from appearance of impropriety.

Similarly, this event leaves New Media journalists and bloggers with what undoubtedly will be seen as a propensity for immaturity, unable to behave themselves in public without attacking one another physically as viciously as on the message boards and comment fields. Watching the footage from the event, I had to wonder if this is what a YouTube or Daily Kos message board looks like if it were acted out LARP style.

Interestingly, it seems that despite being present for the threats, the Denver police took no action against Alex Jones or any of the other protesters calling for the death of Ms. Malkin.

Instead of taking the position of some liberals in the blogosphere, the best move for Democrat aligned bloggers would be to immediately denounce the actions of Alex Jones. Of course the right will denounce Jones & Company, but they would never link to a PrisonPlanet article but to ridicule it.

Those that use Jones’ sources on a regular basis would do good to distance themselves from this sort of ridiculous behavior or risk being painted with the same brush.

[foto credits to GatewayPundit]

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