Crooks and Liars is an American

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 liberal

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 blog founded by John Amato. Along with John Amato, frequent contributors include Nicole Belle, Logan Murphy, Mike Finnigan

Mike Finnigan

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, David Neiwert

David Neiwert

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, SilentPatriot, Blue Gal/Fran Langum, Susie Madrak, Nonny Mouse, Kenneth Quinnell, and Howie Klein. Journalist Tina Dupuy

Tina Dupuy

Tina Dupuy is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist, freelance investigative journalist, comedian and on-air commentator. Dupuy is the managing editor for the blog Crooks and Liars. She’s a fill-in host at the online news program, The Young Turks and now has her own spin-off...

 is the managing editor.

The blog first appeared on the Internet in August 2004. It was one of the first political blogs to feature vlogs (video blogs.) Amato has been referred to as "The Vlogfather", in reference to his being one of the first to use video in political blogging. The site contains an audio and video archive of political events, television, and radio shows. Originally it only retransmitted audio and video of these events; however, in late 2005 it began to distribute original material, in the form of audio interviews.

It also features interviews with leading political and entertainment figures, as well as breaking original news stories.

Along with a variety of clips from television news media, the site frequently features clips from cable

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 programs such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Hardball with Chris Matthews

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, The Rachel Maddow Show (TV series)

The Rachel Maddow Show (TV series)

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, and Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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Crooks and Liars received the "Best Video Blog" blog award at the Weblog Awards in 2006, and a "Best Weblog About Politics" at the 2008 Weblog Awards.

Time Magazine listed Crooks and Liars as one of the 25 Best Blogs of 2009.