In August, President Bush reached out to talk radio hosts to help get his message out and we here at TechRepublican, while lightly applauding for using alternative media in the first place, asked why President Bush hadn't similarly reached out to conservative bloggers for he'd surely find similar allies.

Well this past weekend, President Bush did just that meeting with military bloggers to help amplify his speech on the progress in the war in Iraq.

As reported by the Washington Post:

The day after his prime-time speech on Iraq, President Bush sat down for a round-table interview not with traditional White House reporters but with bloggers who focus on military issues, including two participating by video link from Baghdad.

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Still, the hour-long meeting in the Roosevelt Room offered Bush another opportunity to break through what he sees as the filter of the traditional news media, while also reaching out to the providers of a new source of information for soldiers, their families and others who follow the conflict in Iraq closely.

"More and more we are engaging in the new-media world, and these are influential people who have a big following," said Kevin F. Sullivan, the White House communications chief.

Bush told the group that, to his knowledge, it was the first time a president had met with bloggers for a chat at the White House, one of the participants wrote. The blogs represented at the meeting are generally pro-Bush and pro-military, and the ensuing reports were highly sympathetic to the president.

Mr. President, the highest honor I can bestow to you is a nice helping of porridge with cream and brown sugar. It's kind of become a tradition.

So what's next on the President's tour stop of the modern world? Hopefully YouTube.