Hot Air
The logo of Hot Air | |
Type of site | Political blog |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Salem Communications |
| Created by | Michelle Malkin |
| URL | hotair |
| Registration | Optional, required to comment |
| Launched | 2006 (2006) |
| Current status | Online |
Hot Air is a conservative American political blog. It is written by Ed Morrissey, John Sexton, and David Strom. Karen Townsend and Jazz Shaw wrote for the blog until their deaths in 2024. The pseudonymous Allahpundit was a major contributor until September 2022.
Hot Air was founded by Michelle Malkin, a conservative author and blogger, in 2006, taking over hotair.com from a defunct personal website. Although Malkin served as the publisher and CEO of Hot Air, she exercised little editorial control over the site's various commentators. Morrissey, a Roman Catholic, is the more socially conservative (though gay-friendly) of the current bloggers, whereas Allahpundit is more libertarian and an atheist. Hot Air carried posts from a selection of conservative and libertarian bloggers in its "Green Room", which closed in May 2014. In February 2010, Salem Communications purchased Hot Air.