The meeting between Blades and Meckler just possibly might prove to have explosive long-term political impact.
At the time Meckler was pushing MecklerWeb, an Internet home page where corporations paid for space.
"I didn't need to stand in the shadows of Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler" she says.
Seems we were right about MecklerWeb -- but wrong about Meckler's entrepreneurial ability.
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In his blog, Meckler has compared Fred Rosen , CEO of Comdex producer Key3Media , to the captain of the Titanic.
Notwithstanding their considerable social graces, Blades is one of the toughest babes and Meckler one of the toughest dudes in politics today.
During a two-hour conference call after the witch-doctor incident, Ms. Martin and Mr. Meckler suggested Ms. Kremer resign from Tea Party Patriots.
Meckler's five-year-old publication, Internet World, now has a controlled circulation of 125, 000.
We were right, and Meckler, 53, sacked that business -- he soon realized that companies didn't need him to create their own Web sites.
"Onward and upward for the Internet, " said conference reveler Alan Meckler.
What Mr Meckler meant was that Mr Kingston impressed him as someone who would trim the budget rather than use his position to dole out pork.
Meckler's Internet World is now the industry's leading trade show.
Even Jupiter CEO Alan Meckler has recently started publishing a surprisingly personal blog about Jupiter's effort to launch a trade show to rival Comdex, the troubled annual technology trade show.
And while Lessig and Meckler may disagree about just about every ideological issue, their respect for the wisdom and dignity of the citizens unites them in a realm far more important than the ideological.
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Meckler provides a unique perspective on this topic.
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Mr. Meckler and Ms. Martin were reluctant: Their group, the Patriots, had decided not to endorse or fund specific candidates, so they worried that participating might violate their followers' wishes, and their nonpartisan tax status.
But: this living room conversation, earlier in the month, was between two clashing political titans: the co-founder of MoveOn.org, Joan Blades, and the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, the largest and most authentic of the Tea Party groups, Mark Meckler.
Further disclosure: both Blades, in the Huffington Post, and Meckler, at Citizens For Self-governance, as well as reporter Joe Garafoli in his San Francisco Chronicle article on the meeting, blamed this columnist for having introduced them to one another.
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