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Markos Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, one of the Left’s leading blogs, is fuming. For months, he has been leading the charge on Obamacare, drumming up support amongst Democrats while keeping the Left’s many camps united behind one goal: passing a health-care bill. Now, with Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) caving to one senator after another, Moulitsas sees his cause being destroyed by his own side. And he’s fighting back. In a post on his website, Moulitsas writes that if Reid’s bill is gutted of a public option, but still includes an individual mandate, then it should...

This is how the 2007 amnesty bill died, you may recall. It wasn’t Republicans who killed it, it was Republicans plus big-labor Democrats plus a few pro-amnesty liberal Dems who thought the bill didn’t go far enough. Ultimately, the 60-vote needle was simply too narrow to be threaded. And now here we are again. From Kos’s Twitter feed: Insurance companies win. Time to kill this monstrosity coming out of the Senate.Remember, the overwhelming nutroots CW to this point has been that something must be passed. What, precisely, gets passed is important but ultimately secondary to the task of passing something...

We were told today that the Left is making the rounds on various sites like HuffPo, Daily Kos, etc. (all the usual suspects), talking about how great it would be for people to go to Sarah Palin’s book signings and throw eggs, tomatoes, rocks, etc. at her and her family. Our first impulse at this is to say, “Sarah, declare yourself a 2012 candidate already and get Secret Service protection NOW. Dr. Utopia got it earlier than anyone in history, so you should get it early too.” Then, we hear news that the sickos on the Left are hoping people...

The folks at Daily Kos finds something "shocking" in their regular polling: The first indicator of potential peril is the right track-wrong track metric. With each passing day, the mood of the nation is going to be reflected on the current political leadership in Washington DC, rather than the transgressions and incompetencies of the past leadership. And the mood of the nation appears to be darkening, rather than growing more optimistic. After a meteoric rise in the opening few months of the new Obama adminstration, the RT/WT metric now sits at its worst level in months (-17: 40/57). But a...

Oops! Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, has discovered that his endorsement can be political poison. Such was the case with his endorsement at the beginning of this month of the very liberal Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, in the New York 23rd CD special election: Club for Growth darling Doug Hoffman is running on the Conservative Party line, and has even garnered the endorsement of Fred Thompson. The guy has legitimate traction, fueled by the fact that Dede Scozzafava, the Republican, is actually the most liberal candidate in the race. (Heck, she has run on the very liberal Working...

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The sickos over at Kos never cease to amaze me. Irving Kristol died today. He was a great writer and thinker and admired on both sides of the aisle--even my own liberal father loved his columns and books. Yet here I see a thread on DailyKos tonight where they are reveling in his death, and even hoping his wife (and Bill Kristol's Mom) Gertrude Himmelfarb would die soon too. Here are the lovely comments... Paging Bill O'Reilly. He's been silent on them for a while.

Currently, leftists have reportedly generated $1 million in donations for Rep. Joe Wilson's opponent last time, Rob Miller. Wilson, for his part has reaped about $750k. But there is a big difference beneath the surface: : Kos and DCCC immediately organized fundraising against Wilson. Wilson's $ is based on his own appeal and spontaneous contributors. From Paul Kane of the WaPo:

What they really want is ruinous single-payer, but they’ll accept a road-to-ruin public option in lieu of that — in the name of compromise, mind you. He’s still pushing the idea that last year’s election was an electoral endorsement of big-state Hopenchange, despite the tanking polls over the last month, despite the fact that the public is lukewarm at best about a public option, despite the resounding predictions even from lefty pollsters — including Nate Silver, speaking at Yearly Kos — that The One’s insane expansion of government will mean major pick-ups for the GOP next year. Oh well. Listen...

The pushback after the resignation of Racist, Radical Marxist Van Jones is beginning... Kieth Olberman posted a diary on Daily KOS at 1PM today asking KOS'rs to send him EVERYTHING THEY HAVE on Glenn Beck,, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes. QUOTE: Tuesday we will expand this to the television audience and have a dedicated email address to accept leads, tips, contacts, on Beck, his radio producer Burguiere, and the chief of his tv enablers, Ailes (even though Ailes' power was desperately undercut when he failed to pull off his phony "truce" push). This becomes necessary after this in order to...

Who's says this loser is obsessed: Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck by Keith Olbermann Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 10:14:03 AM PDT I don't know why I've got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes. No, even now, I refuse to go all caps. No, sending me links to the last two Countdowns with my own de-constructions of his biblical vision quality Communist/Fascist/Socialist/Zimbalist art at Rockefeller Center (where, curiously, he works, Comrade) doesn't count. Nor does sending me links to specious inappropriate point-underscoring prove-you're-innocent made-up...

Check out this "poll" at DailyKos...it shows Obama at 60% or 61% for 20 straight days! Meanwhile Obama hasn't done quite so well elsewhere...hasn't been above 60% on Gallup since July 1st... Who is their webmaster, Hugo Chavez?

outspoken, conservative, media-friendly — and for many in the Democratic Party, a new public enemy No. 1. Now that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is out of office, there are few Republican officials in the country Democrats would rather unseat in 2010 than Bachmann, a two-term congresswoman with a habit of pushing the buttons of liberals on everything from ACORN to global warming to even whether President Barack Obama is, as she once asked, "anti-American." "She's definitely somewhere up there," Bachmann chief of staff Michelle Martson said of where the Minnesota congresswoman sits on the Democratic campaign hit-list.

Democratic Congressmen may not be looking forward to the upcoming town halls in their own districts, but online liberal activists at the Daily Kos and Democratic Underground are already passing around ways to possibly triumph over the embarrassing you tube videos of government health care supporting politicians being confronted by average Americans.

It is said that the people are revolting. You said it! They stink on ice!That pretty much sums up the attitude of the Kossacks at the Daily Kos. However, unlike the Mel Brooks version of King Louis XVI in "History of the World: Part I," the Kossacks are fearful, deeply fearful, of the people. They are worried that the Tea Party protesters who show up at the town hall meetings conducted by members of Congress might derail Obamacare due to the large turnouts and vehemence of their protests as you can see in this thread posted by Kossack icebergslim: Sure,...

Dear Mr. Robinson: I've given the matter quite a bit of thought and have decided it is time to ZOT you. I was tempted when I noticed posters were allowed to insult anyone who disagreed with them; even more tempted when I saw new posters banned for asking questions, or expressing an opinion outside the mainstream - (though I must confess anyone adopting the screen name "Christ was killed by conservatives" was not going to last very long ! I'm sure he was referring to the Sanhedrin, but still...) When I saw your post today about getting "millions of people"...

Determined to continue on the same reckless posting course set by his previous Call to Arms, Jim (or more likely the posters for whom his account serves as a handy sockpuppet, namely JohnBoy or nutjob fluffer Gary Dunn/Syncro) has expanded further. The nitwit list of a guy who gets government healthcare and government disability has been posted, and as expected, he drowns in Teh Stupid - all to keep anybody else from getting what he gets, he would override the wishes of the majority of Americans. It would be a joke, except for the fact that too many of these...

Reactions to Sarah Palin’s decision to resign the governorship of Alaska have been a reminder of her unmatched ability to elicit strong emotions from friend and foe alike. We know some of the reasons why. It’s her evangelical Christianity and her folksy manner. It’s her small-town roots and her “new feminism.” But there is something more. A year ago, Palin gave birth to her youngest son, Trig, who has Down syndrome. Since then, mother and son have become objects of the left’s unrelenting scorn and the right’s unflinching fidelity. An underexamined reason why Palin is loved and loathed so fiercely...

Is making a racist remark about President Obama's daughter worse than wishing a conservative talk show host would die? Such should be asked of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann who on Monday was quite angered by some truly tasteless comments about Malia Obama posted last week at Free Republic.Yet, back in April when Olbermann published a diary at the liberal website Daily Kos concerning his waterboarding challenge to Sean Hannity, the "Countdown" host wasn't at all outraged by the venomous attacks made on the Fox News star which included some Kossacks wishing he would die.For those that can stand it, here's a...

Daily Kos Kiddie "Cat M" has sent me two e-mails this morning responding to the thread I posted last night about Cat's comment threatening to sic the Secret Service on Jim Robinson. Cat claims I misrepresented the remark.Here are Cat's two e-mails presented in their entirety:You are silly and paranoidDear Kristinn: I did not "threaten" to "sic" the Secret Service on anyone. It is not even within my power to do so; I do not exactly have a hotline to the Secret Service. I heard somewhere that you are a lawyer. Didn't your education include classes on reading comprehension? If...

I'll tell you what. The dozen or so insults made by about a half-dozen anonymous members of the general public on an Internet forum were disgraceful. So we pulled them. But they're really a disgrace to insults in general and to the professional race-baiters of our main stream media that hurl them on a daily basis. Our guys don't hold a candle to the professionals that have spent the last ten years or so pummeling the Bush and Cheney families with thousands of insults every damned day in every newspaper, magazine and TV network broadcasting to the public. Even the...

Daily Kos diarist CatM is threatening to sic the Secret Service on Free Republic founder Jim Robinson in retaliation for Robinson's refusing to grovel at the feet of the Kos Kiddies over the Malia Obama controversy, while another Kos poster threatened to sodomize Robinson.CatM is the person at the Daily Kos that wrote the blog entry that fellow Kos Kiddie Chris Parry used as his source for a full-of-inaccuracies hit piece in the Vancouver Sun this past weekend that has been used by liberals to falsely attack Free Republic as a bastian of racism.That the comments were pulled as being...

Free Republic is the clear winner in a poll at the liberal Daily Kos website started yesterday about my interview with David Shuster on MSNBC.The question for the poll and the results as of the posting of this article:Who do you think won?MSNBC: 20%, 38 votesFreeRepublic.com: 36% 68 votesFreedom of speech: 4%, 8 votesHollywoodOz (Daily Kos poster Chris Parry): 5%, 9 votesIt was just fun to watch: 6%, 12 votesI don't care: 29%, 54 votesTotal votes: 189.Okay, it's only 189 votes, but this poll is just as valid as any poll trumpted by the media.

Anyone want to guess what the left would be screaming had the following posts been found on a conservative forum site...? The meaning of the word NiggerFAGGOT: The New "Nigger"? (With Poll)Obama people you niggerized now deal with it!The Best Use of the Word "N****r" EVERPut the Niggers in the Super DomeThe N-Word? Please, Use It Any Way You CanPut the Niggers in the Superdome: Part IIThe "twenty nigger" laws and other disturbing truthsBut the Kos is not alone.

<p>How can citizens of a free country speak such hateful words directed at another human being? (you are talking about Chris Parry, right?- Mod) After reading the ignorant postings found on this site Daily KOS I feel sick to my stomach and ashamed to be an American.Get with Michelle Obama on that.</p>

Chris Parry of the Vancouver Sun recently wrote an article about a bunch of nasty comments posted about Obama’s daughter Malia on Free Republic: “A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion. “Could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there?” wrote one commenter. blah, blah, blah snipped Those comments are pretty stupid. As much as I dislike Obama and his policies and his lack of honest...

Yoon wants term limit for office of the mayorby Brandon SimesManaging EditorMonday Jul 13, 2009 At-Large City Councilor and mayoral challenger Sam Yoon says he’ll serve no more than two terms if elected mayor and supports implementing term limits for the office of the mayor. Mayor Thomas Menino, one of Yoon’s three mayoral rivals-the others are South Ender Kevin McCrea and fellow At-Large Councilor Michael Flaherty, will end his current term as the longest-running mayor the city has ever seen, regardless of the outcome of this fall’s election. "If eight years is long enough for the President of the United States,...

<p>I'm scheduled to be on MSNBC this afternoon to talk about the controversy over the pulled Free Republic thread about Malia Obama.</p> <p>The segment should air live around 3:30 p.m. EDT barring any breaking news, etc.</p> <p>David Shuster and Tamran Hall will be co-hosting the segment.</p>

From This Day Forth To Be "Parry'd" Will Mean.... "Posting inflamatory or slanderous comments on a blog under an a false identity or handle in order to then have someone point out the blog is full of posters who are racist or horrible people." To be "Parry'd" or as if to have Chris Parry posting horrible and vile posts and then to write an article about those posts you yourself posted under a false identiy. Jim Robinson and Freerepublic are often "Parry'd" by Daily Kosters who then use these posts to righteous proclaim Freerepublic is full of racists.

Well, should've seen this coming: conservative blog Free Republic fired hate speech off at Malia Obama after this photo of her appeared, letting their commenters go to town. But the journalist who reported this as news isn't innocent, either. Chris Parry of The Vancouver Sun highlighted some of the comments on the mainstream, hard right-wing blog/news aggregator Free Republic. Among them, a picture of Michelle talking to Malia Obama with the caption: "To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds." Classy. These mouthbreathing, borderline morons then kept piled on: "A typical street whore." "A bunch of ghetto...

<p>Freepers, get the word out loud and wide. The Vancouver Sun "journalist" Chris Parry that defamed Jim Robinson and FreeRepublic is none other than radical left blogger "Hollywoodoz" at the Daily Kos. In addition to writting for the Vancouver Sun, Chris is a frustrated and failed internet entrepreneur, having launched many websites and blogs, all of which have virtually no traffic, following, or success. Chris also writes movie reviews, though these are pretty lame.</p>

need 15 more minutes folks. Hold on, its coming.

The Daily Kos is scoring a lot of political points against Free Republic with the race and children cards. It was not our finest hour. But just how saintly and pure of thought are the Kossacks? Here’s the original Kos diary from Thursday that got the ball rolling against FR.The Kos diarist who posted the piece, Halfrican, closed his report on the FR thread with this wish for Freepers and their children:I hope all these Freepers have children that grow up to either marry black people or f*** them in high school. (asterisks added.)But we're the racists, right? I wonder...

As most of you know, for years John Aravosis and Americablog have been one of the most readable and provocative of the progressive blog sites. Idiocyncratic for sure (which is a good thing), not always certain of its place in the world, it has been a second home for me (after Dailykos). But I have been banned from posting comments. Why? Because I took exception to the use of Malcolm X's "House Negro" comment in reference to those gay leaders who are going to a White House reception next week. I am gay myself, totally committed to our getting our...

It wasn't quite Dick Cheney vs. Barack Obama, but another little debate broke out yesterday that raised a few eyebrows in some political circles. Of course, the debate was conducted entirely on Twitter, so it wasn't as wordy as the back-to-back speeches on torture by Obama and Cheney a few weeks ago. And the players were Meghan McCain -- the McCain campaign blogger-turned-would-be-GOP-modernizer -- and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, so it didn't get the advance hype those speeches did. Cheney actually played a minor role in how the whole thing started. The former vice president, who has a gay...

BECAUSE OF THIS POST ON FREEREPUBLIC, the leftist fascists got their panties in a wad. As all of you know, or should know, it is not our side that advocates violence (except against people like Saddam Hussein, his sons, the Iranian mullahs, and the rest of the Islamofascists who want us all dead). Apparently, the rats who live underground think the post was worthy of a report to the FBI. Someone had to do it, so I reported myself to the FBI field agent in Los Angeles. The agent has my phone number and name and took the time...

Leftists falling all over themselves denying the obvious: Islamic extremism kills. Black Muslim converts kill. Pacifism kills. Antiwar leftists kill. Leftist extremism kills. Left-wing haters kill. Liberal fascism kills. Leftist ideology zealots kill. Leftist terrorism kills. Left-wing violence kills. Socialism kills. Marxism kills!

I am embarrassed to be pro-life todayCannot be posted by FR rules.

FOX News' Bill O'Reilly has been attacking the liberal blog Daily Kos, and liberal blogs in general, over some extreme comments left by some of our visitors. It's interesting therefore that O'Reilly's own Web site contains some of the most hideous hate you've ever seen. Over the next few hours, we'll be documenting some of that hate. And you'll be interested to know that while O'Reilly holds others responsible for the words strangers leave on their Web sites, on O'Reilly's Web site, he's not responsible at all for the hate and threats his readers leave behind. And I quote O'Reilly's...

At Daily Kos, there is a blog today on how to repeal Prop 8 in the future. LINK BELOW. Keep black and Hispanic turnout low, and counter Mormon Money... The title of the blog is "To Repeal Prop 8, Keep Black and Hispanic Turnout Low, And Counter Mormon Money." Does this sound to you like libs/Dems cherish black and hispanic votes? Does this sound to you like libs/Dems are against suppressing the minority vote? Don't libs/Dems want every vote to count? Could it be that libs/Dems only care about advancing liberalism and socialism and really don't care what they have...

For those highly mistaken people who think the liberals are the ones who bring gentleness and compassion and reasonableness to the political debate, we always have the rebuttal. It’s called the Daily Kos. This Thursday "diary" recently made it to the top of the Kosmonauts’ recommended list, despite the fact that the writer needs his keyboard washed out with soap: F*** you Dick Cheney! F*** your pompous condecension. F*** your straw men! F*** your mischaracterizations! F*** your sniveling attempts to keep you and your buddies asses out of federal (somewhat offensive movie quote removed, happy now?) prison! F*** your presumption...

Most people on Daily Kos are (painfully) aware of Free Republic, the bottomless digital repository of bigotry, authoritarianism and hatred for most other Americans, all wrapped in 90's-era HTML. Usually, sane people who stop by there to check it out, find something utterly appalling within a few minutes of browsing, and close the page, never to return. Thus, there isn't a lot of detailed knowledge of Free Republic on Daily Kos. One important feature of the site is that it is community-supported through donation drives called "Freepathons." In 2008, Jim Robinson, the site founder, seems to have decided to purge...

They're singing the blues, the Jews Blues. And with it the stage has been set for the elimination of the Jewish state and a grim future for Jews in the United States. If the result sought is that "we are all anti-Semites now," then the Jews Blues are the means to that end. In music, the blues simultaneously direct sadness and anger at a person or situation, empathically pulling listeners into agreement. The rhetorical blues do the same, offering elites a way to shift the blame for policy and social failures to selected individuals and groups. This creates a background...

---snip--- 2) From DKos: Tomorrow, my husband and I will be venturing into the wilds disguised as a news crew to do some in person interviewers with teabaggers here in Rhode Island (if we can find any). We’ve got some questions lined up to ask, but I’d love to get suggestions! The great thing about owning professional video equipment is that armed with it, you can pass yourself off as being a professional news crew pretty easily. So tomorrow, “WSFR” is going to send a cameraman and on air news personality out into the field to cover this “teabagging” phenomenon....

An insidious new meme is being propagated following the Pittsburgh slayings--that rhetoric from conservatives, gun rights activists, the "right wing"-- is responsible for Richard Poplawski's alleged fear that Obama was going to take away guns. The first thing we need acknowledge is this is but one more case of the media rushing to judgment before the facts are in. There's a whole lotta speculation going on. As we've noted before, Obama's own words taken from the official White House website reveal his goal of banning an entire class of semiautomatic firearms. His attorney general has revived the call. And he's...

"Shortly before Markos Moulitsas blamed Glenn Beck for instigating the senseless shooting of three Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officers on Saturday, the proprietor of the far-left website Daily Kos said that conservatives would rather shoot cops than organize to win the next election. He also wrote during the same Twitter discussion, "With no Veep to shoot people, folks are taking things into their own hands." Such was revealed Sunday by a self-proclaimed Daily Kos diarist named Tommy Christopher who was so disgusted by these comments he has actually resigned his membership (h/t Hot Air via ConservaThink)".That was written by Noel Sheppard...

The boss has noted the tragedy in Pittsburgh, where a lone gunman killed three police officers trying their best to defend their community:

Mayberry, we have a problem.