The Washington Independent released the “Best of the Rightest” for 2009 today.
Gateway Pundit came in at #9.
It’s quite an honor.

The Best and the Rightest The Top Ten Conservatives of 2009

No conservative blogger gave liberals more heartburn in 2009 than Hoft, whether or not they realized it. Based in St.Louis — “the heart of America” — Hoft launched his Gateway Pundit site in 2004 and turned it into a constantly churning hub of the conservative blogosphere. It wasn’t until this year, however, that Hoft began collecting liberal scalps. When then-White House “green jobs czar” Van Jones came under right-wing fire for his attacks on Republicans, Hoft discovered a 2002 petition, signed by Jones, calling for a new investigation into 9/11. The news quickly brought Jones down. Many liberals pinned the blame on Glenn Beck, who catapulted Hoft’s scoop into the mainstream conversation. Hoft, however, deserved credit as the leading example of a web-savvy amateur who leveraged the conservative media to cover stories that hurt liberals. In October, Hoft made the move to the conservative Catholic magazine First Things and blogged for Big Government (see #3), where he and other conservative bloggers campaigned for the removal of “safe schools czar” Kevin Jennings.

 

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  1. #1 December 31, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    kate commented:

    Congratulations Jim. May you be as irritating (G-d willing, moreso) to the left in 2010 as you have been since Gateway Pundit’s inception.

  2. #2 December 31, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Rivka commented:

    Congrats Jim!! You deserve it.

  3. #3 December 31, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    non_dhimmie commented:

    Bless you….2010 is going to be even better for you……Push Brown and win that election for us.

    Keep it up……

    Happy New Year

  4. #4 December 31, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Snake Eater commented:

    Congratulations Jim. Great work in 09! Now get ready because its time to take these Marxists down in 10!

  5. #5 December 31, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Sojourner commented:

    Yea Jim! Great to see that feathers in caps still go to those who earn them! Godspeed in 2010 and thanks.

  6. #6 December 31, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    manateespirit commented:

    Whoohoo, Jim! You’re a gem to work with and always good to read your posts. We’re delighted you are here with us in St. Louis trying to head off the bad guys.

    Happy New Year!

  7. #7 December 31, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    TiminPhx commented:

    Wait a minute there Jim.

    Do you really want to get worked up over being on a list of conservatives that includes the odious Ron Paul?

    That’s right, the man who blamed the US as being the reason for The PantsonFire bomber is Number ONE on the list you post here. He said the US were occupiers and it was thus our fault.

    You have a lot to be proud over. Your listing by some hack who thinks Paul is the number one conservative in the country, shouldn’t be one of the reasons.

  8. #8 December 31, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    NeoKong commented:

    Whoohoo too .
    Oh man. I’m riding Jim’s coat tails for everything it’s worth.
    I’ll be on this site like a barnicle on a boat.

    Happy New Year Jim.
    U da’ man.

  9. #9 December 31, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    dries commented:

    Congratulations! I found this blog days after Katrina, with its iconic picture of flooded, yellow school buses & have a remained a daily reader ever since.

  10. #10 December 31, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    Dell commented:

    It’s mighty nice to NOT need the lamestream media for up to the minute news. Just punch up a short list of Conservative blogs and it’s all right there. Without folks like Jim, I doubt we’d ever know the truth!

  11. #11 December 31, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    George Moneo commented:

    Your Cuban-American brothers and sisters on BabaluBlog are terribly proud of you. We need an army of Jim Hofts in 2010…

  12. #12 December 31, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    Scott commented:

    Congratulations, Jim. TiminPhx is right, though. With Ron Paul at #1 and Sarah not making the list at all just isn’t right.

  13. #13 December 31, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    GrayRider commented:

    Congrats, Jim. Your hard work and all your excellent content is well recognized. Your site is aways the first I visit each day.

  14. #14 December 31, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    anna commented:

    I’ve been reading your blog for quite a long time. Congratulations, you more than deserve the ranking!! Your hard work is paying off :)

  15. #15 December 31, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    J.B. commented:

    Congratulations Jim & Happy New Year. Here’s to more “heartburn” in 2010.

  16. #16 December 31, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    Chisum commented:

    Congrats. You earned it!

  17. #17 December 31, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    C-Christian Soldier commented:

    Congratulations – Jim—
    You gave me my first h/t in my first few months of ‘blogging’ and it was an honor then….

    It is an honor today to wish you an Happy New Year and..
    FIRST PLACE for the ‘Best of the Rightest’—next year!!!!! :-)
    C-CS

  18. #19 December 31, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Dan F commented:

    Two Thumbs up Jim!

  19. #20 December 31, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    labwriter commented:

    Congratulations Jim! Thank you for all your hard work this year, for bringing along so many of us who were new to this. This has been an amazing year–here’s to 2010, even more so!

    Thank you.

  20. #21 December 31, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Jayne on the left coast commented:

    Jim your #1 blogger on my list. Keep up the heat.

  21. #22 December 31, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    crystal commented:

    Go Jim! Go Jim! Go Jim! *doing the happy dance*
    I think you’re only getting started, my friend. I believe that you will be astonished at what He does in the upcoming year. You have set yourself apart, even from the other conservative blogs. Continue to trust in Him, He has your back. Thank you for all that you do. God bless you.

  22. #23 December 31, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    Lance commented:

    Well done, sir. I visit here several times a day to keep up with the latest vile efforts of the left to continue to bamboozle the less informed among us. Thanks for all you do.

  23. #25 December 31, 2009 at 5:49 pm

    Way 2go Jim commented:

    Way to go Jim. I am spending a lot more time at your blog these past several months.

    It now has become a daily stop.

    Keep up the great work.

    Congratulations.

  24. #26 December 31, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Fausta commented:

    Congratulations, Jim! Well earned, well deserved.

  25. #27 December 31, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    Mark Iven commented:

    You mean that the Gateway Pundit website isn’t self-existent, you know, like milk in the supermarket?
    No, really, great job, Jim. And HNY!

  26. #28 December 31, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    Jan commented:

    Congrats, Jim! Been a long time reader but don’t post often. Keep up the good work and may God keep on blessing you! Happy New Year!

  27. #29 December 31, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    Chisum commented:

    Tim Hoft
    December 31st, 2009 | 4:47 pm | #4
    I’m proud of my brother Jim for being recognized for spewing the 9th most hatred in the world!! Keep supporting all of those white supremist/anti-semite groups bro and maybe you move up the list next year!!!!! Cheers bro!!!
    —————————————————
    Major DOUCHE alert!

  28. #31 December 31, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    Reaganite Republican commented:

    Not a bad year… keep up the Good Fight, sir… OUR side’s winning now!

  29. #32 December 31, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    One Way commented:

    Congratulations! But GP is #1 in my book.

    Like so many others, this is where I get the news that counts – throughout the day and night.

    Jim Hoft is tireless – doing an incredible job to keep us informed. Huge thanks for all you do and all the best in 2010, a critical year for our America.

  30. #33 December 31, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    Jean commented:

    Congratulations and Happy New Year Jim. 2010 will be a great year thanks to GP.

  31. #34 December 31, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    Joe Clymer commented:

    An evaluation of my daily regimen says it all: Of the 41 websites visited daily, yours provides the best coverage of late-breaking events. Congratulations, Jim!! 2010 will be a great year for you and GP (and hopefully for the rest of us that follow you).

  32. #35 December 31, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Congratulations GP!!

    And A Very Merry New Year To You & All!!

    ==

  33. #36 December 31, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    OT, well not really..

    ht RG

    TSA subpoenas bloggers, demands names of sources

    now it’s bloggers fault they can’t keep secrets..

    what did they do about the NYT release
    of national security secret documents??

    crickets..

    ==

  34. #37 December 31, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    BRAVISSIMO! For an Aussie with my Polish immigrant roots it is a MUST a dailly read of Jim’s fantastic blog.

    My imperfect (self-taught) English makes me hugely reluctant to participate on a dailly basis but as a someone who was forced to put overything on the line for a FREEDOM I can only appreciate Jims’ passion in his noble fight to defend IT.

  35. #38 December 31, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    spayandneuter commented:

    Congratulations Jim!

    –

  36. #39 December 31, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    Larry Walker commented:

    Well deserved. Perhaps #1 next year.

  37. #40 December 31, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    I had to live thrugh all THIS. So you can only imagine what I tend to think about that usurper, degenerate, wastrel, moron, traitor, commie, empty-suit…

    P.S: That fantastic gal, Crystal does, certainly, grasp it but why, on Earth the majority of black Americans cannot understand that Obama consists a much greater menace to them than that white supremacist David Duke? Duke is a cretin but he is irelevant and a harmless cretin.

    For Soetoro, on the other hand, blacks serve only as a “cannon fodder” in his quest to enslave humanity.

  38. #41 December 31, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    Donna S. commented:

    Congrats Jim! You deserve all the recognition you get as you are a rentless, committed news blogger. You are making a difference in people’s lives. Gateway is the first news site I read every morning. : )

  39. #42 December 31, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Militant Conservative commented:

    Bogdan from Australia,
    Well said, I have often articulated that it is ironic that “many whites died for the freedom of the blacks in the civil war but now we all face slavery due to a black man” Bogdan, it is a victim mentality, I did not get this much when living in Texas but here in Georgia the civil war is still being fought. Blacks have a victim mentality that holds them back. This is the only truism in life, you make your own limitations in America.

  40. #43 December 31, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Joe Gringo commented:

    #2 in my book, nice association with The Anchoress! Happy New Year.

  41. #44 December 31, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    Big Mo commented:

    Jim – kudos to a fellow St. Louis conservative. Been reading your site since ’04, and bookmarked you when I realized that your coverage of international events that Big Media ignores or spins beyond recognition was one of the best facets of the internet.

    Well done, sir, well done.

  42. #45 December 31, 2009 at 8:10 pm

    Joanne commented:

    Congratulations Jim, and may the heartburn turn into chest pains and a cardiac arrest for the liberals in 2010.

  43. #46 December 31, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    czekmark commented:

    I discovered Gateway Pundit a few years ago and have been a frequent reader and a sometime commentor. To me, you are in the top 10 of any list.

  44. #47 December 31, 2009 at 8:40 pm

    proof commented:

    Congratulations, Jim! Well deserved!

  45. #48 December 31, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    Jennifer commented:

    Congratulations and thank you Jim Hoft. It is Gateway Pundit that I read first thing in the morning and check on during the day. I think you should have been number one, as your site is number one to me. I feel comforted by the fact that you are in St. Louis, not far from the very ‘dirty’ city I live in, Chicago. You understand what happens when a city is destroyed by unions.

  46. #49 December 31, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Bogdan from Australia @ 7:23 pm #41

    re: [For Soetoro, on the other hand, blacks serve only
    as a “cannon fodder” in his quest to enslave humanity.]

    it’s built into his radical ideology..

    ==

  47. #50 December 31, 2009 at 9:16 pm

    K Reactor commented:

    Congratulations, well deserved, keep up the good work and go for the top 5 in 2010!

  48. #51 December 31, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    curiozities commented:

    My hats off to you. Thank God for people like u who fight the good fight. Wish I had more time to do the same myself. Here’s to a Happy 2010–especially come November!

  49. #52 December 31, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    Solaratov commented:

    Congratulations, Jim!! And many thanks for the work you do to bring us information that the msm never would.
    You and your work are blessings, indeed.

    All the best to you and yours in 2010. (It’s gonna be a helluva year, I think.)

  50. #53 December 31, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    wanumba commented:

    Wow!
    Congratulations!
    Thank you Mr. Jim GP for your great work!

    A Happy New Year to you and to all the wonderful posters who we’ve “met” here at GP.

  51. #54 January 1, 2010 at 12:45 am

    sybilll commented:

    Jim, congratulations!!! I think I got to you from InstaPundit, and you have been a must stop ever since. Best wishes for a prosperous 2010 (when we take it all back).

  52. #55 January 1, 2010 at 1:25 am

    Kathy from Kansas commented:

    Yea, Jim! GP’s always the first place I turn for news. More than most, you have your priorities straight. That’s a huge service, and you deserve many thanks!!

  53. #56 January 1, 2010 at 1:30 am

    codered commented:

    congrats, Jim. you deserve it. i was actually thinking about your mom’s absence during this holiday season. she would be proud of you, too. happy new year

  54. #57 January 1, 2010 at 5:15 am

    PamelaofthePoconos commented:

    Congratulations on an award well-deserved! In fact, you should have been first.

  55. #59 January 1, 2010 at 7:31 am

    BackwardsBoy commented:

    Congratulations, Jim! You’re an inspiration and a source of light in the political darkness that surrounds Washington. Keep up the good work and may the coming year be your best yet.

  56. #60 January 1, 2010 at 8:26 am

    senatorseven commented:

    Jim, you make us all very proud. The first time I heard you referenced on national media (Bill Kristol discussing ACORN, I think), I was giddy. Now, given the broad recognition of your outstanding investigative reporting and the number of times I’ve heard you referenced, I expect it. Congratulations, and KEEP IT UP!

  57. #61 January 1, 2010 at 9:12 am

    Jeff commented:

    THANKS JIM

  58. #62 January 1, 2010 at 9:49 am

    KMacGinn commented:

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I wish you continued energy and courage to continue hounding those that need to be hounded! May you have the tenacity of a pitbull and the unrelenting energy and sniffer of a bloodhound.

    After checking my e-mail, YOU are the very next site I go to! You provide so much information to the public! I wish you all the best in this New Year and decade!

  59. #63 January 1, 2010 at 10:36 am

    LBrehm commented:

    Congratulations Jim! I don’t always post, but my day is not complete until I’ve visited Gateway Pundit several times. You keep us on our toes! Keep giving the libs hell!

  60. #64 January 1, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    Dee commented:

    Congratulations Jim. I visit your website daily sometimes several times a day. Keep up the excellent reporting.

  61. #65 January 1, 2010 at 1:15 pm

    Georgezap commented:

    A well deserved congratulation Jim, your GP blog is right next to American Thinker and Rush in my favorites. God bless you and keep the truth and exposure coming.

  62. #66 January 1, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    thiacyn commented:

    Congratulation Mr. Hoft! You are a soldier of the web! I am praying for you and all who take on this task of defeating the enemy within!!!

  63. #67 January 1, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    AuntieMadder commented:

    Congratulations, Gateway Pundit. Yours is the first news blog I visit every day. Guess that makes you number 1 for me.

    PS: Read it here one day and then see Glenn Beck cover it a few days later. I think Glenn Beck gets some of his news and topic ideas from Gateway Pundit.

  64. #68 January 2, 2010 at 7:52 am

    Papa Ray commented:

    Congratulations Jim.

    I’m sure 2010 will give you many, many opportunities to expose the truth and vanquish the evil and corrupt that is threatening our Republic.

    Keep up the great work.

    Papa Ray

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