Podcasting: A new weapon for the right

Are conservative think tanks and advocacy groups glomming on to podcasting as they did with talk radio?

After Apple Computer announced its new video-capable iPod, the San Francisco Chronicle's Mark Morford, a funny, controversial and ever-iconoclastic columnist, enthused that the new "sexy" and "delicious" device would usher in a future where pornography would be available at the flick of a finger.

Morford isn't the only one imagining the future of podcasting. Jennifer Biddison, the Coalitions Manager and Associate Editor for Townhall.com -- one of the oldest and most successful right wing networking websites -- maintains that while podcasting has already become a useful political tool for the conservative movement its potential has yet to be tapped.