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Last week I enjoyed the honor of having my essay on "Bush and the Bush Haters" featured on both Democratic Underground and Daily Kos. Glancing over the comments (along with those in a similar vein on RealClearPolitics) I saw that with few exceptions, they were the standard run of viciousness, nastiness, and obscenity that we've grown used to from the left in recent years. But there was another quality too, one that took me a little while to identify. What struck me at last was this: the left are not acting like winners. People basking in a long-sought victory -- a...

Thought ya'll might get a kick out of this, as the reality of Democrat Party economic policy hits home for this kook. "So, I became another casualty of this devastating economic climate. I lost my job today. It was not totally unexpected. About a month ago, there was a big meeting at the company. We were told that at least 35 people would be laid off. Nobody’s job was safe. The announcement of layoffs would come, they said, in the middle of November. November came and passed without a word. Then today, around noon, I got a call to come...

The chasm between those who want President-elect Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate to verify his eligibility to hold the nation's highest office and those who simply support the Democrat is widening. "The Constitution means what we today decide it means," opined one participant on a new WND forum that offers readers an opportunity to express their opinion on the birth certificate dispute.

Here's one example from before the election via the Daily Kos: But when the church and its members invest millions of dollars in an attempt to write discrimination into my state's constitution and divorce my friend Brian against his will, there will be hell to pay.So what am I asking you to do? Some distributed research.There is a list of a bunch of Mormon donors to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign (in case that one goes down, here's a mirror with slightly worse formatting. Here's what I'm asking for:This list contains information about those who are big donors to...

We warned you about Obama and his supporters, and now . . .More . . .

After Lieberman Vote, Kos Says He's 'Done With Reid' @ 5:41 pm by Walter Alarkon Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, isn't happy about Senate Democrats' decision to keep Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Moulitsas wrote that the Democrat senators' vote showed "disdain for the American electorate that voted in overwhelming numbers for change from the discredited Bush/McCain/Lieberman policies." He added that he is "done with [Harry] Reid as Senate leader." "[I]n a city known for tone-deafness, there clearly isn't a more tone-deaf group than the Senate Dems," Moulitsas wrote.

Here is video of Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. Joe Lieberman addressing the press today after the Senate Democratic Caucus met and decided to allow Lieberman to keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. . . . . (Watch Video) Reaction from Far-Left Leader "Kos"

Look what's on their website RIGHT NOW. Please Post if you have been able to make at least 1 call or email, thanks. Phone for McCain-Palin 2008 1. Get out your own home phone its easy and convenient 2. Start up your computer and click on the link above to go to the main campaign site. 3. Click the Start button below to begin the phone bank. Each screen will have one phone number to call. Read over the script a few times before you begin calling so you are comfortable with it. Please do not make any calls before...

As reported here - http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/at-daily-kos-hate-website-obama-wrote.html In light of revelations reported of a 2005 Kos post by Obama of purging/banishing moderate democrats from the party, we should all freep Drudge until he posts the story. Our freeps a few days ago helped lead Drudge to post the Obama redistribution Youtube video. Let us do it again. Let us attract moderate and conservative democrats to help defeat Obama.

I know you troll these forums and I know you're spineless, pseudo-intellectual rhetoric. At least twice a day, preferably after I've burned a Qu'ran, insulted a minority and memorized my Rovian curriculum for the day, I scroll through the KOS diaries and frontpage updates to determine exactly how vitriolic and ignorant you're feeling today Will it be bashing Palin for more unsubstantiated rumors that the MSM threw out 6 weeks ago? A swipe at McCain's age? How about my old favorite: clinging to your inane polls, each of which is over-weighting democrats 5-10 points despite the fact the last presidential...

Your humble correspondent had figured the polls would start to narrow in the final week of the campaign but this stunning new Gallup poll shows the lead in the Presidential race narrowing much more rapidly than he had assumed. The latest Gallup poll of traditional likely voters shows the race has narrowed down to 49 percent for Barack Obama and 47 percent for John McCain. Here is Gallup's explanation of this poll: Gallup's "traditional" likely voter model, which Gallup has employed for past elections, factors in prior voting behavior as well as current voting intention. This has generally shown a...

Presently, Obama 50 v. McCain 43.

Please tell me if you can, who BELIEVES the crap that's being posted over there at Daily Kos? WHO????

New on-line comic strip based upon the KOS kids in their true state. It's a take off on the short series of comics by Marvel. I think this strip has possibilities. I don't know if it will be updated as frequently as Day By Day by Chris Muir which is one of my favorite on line political comics. This new strip is worth take a look at by following the link above. I think the image of Markos is pretty accurate. Nice images of the KOS related sites/people: TPM, Democratic Underground and I think the forth is a woman who...

I know this is vain, but I feel so good that I just got zotted by DailyKos. My half-life was exactly one post, one response.

Oh, that is rich. That is precious. Hey, stop me if you heard this one before-- It's funny. It's funny because it's true. What, you don't get it? Well nothing's funny if you analyze it to death. I have a screencap, too, for when they inevitably yank it. Don't question their patriotism, though. And don't question the patriotism of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Keith Olbermann and other assorted Koz Kidz, either. Thanks to DP.

Ok.... I know the DUmmie Funnies is the usual outlet for this, but this example of LIBERAL DERANGEMENT SYNDROME is just too damn funny to let pass! This is an article on KOS titled: "It's not that Obama's not fighting back. IT'S THE FASCIST MEDIA!!!" You need to understand this. Obama is fighting back. Biden is fighting back. We're all fighting back. They go to hundreds of events. They make countless jabs at McCain, Palin and Bush. If you get the chance to watch their events, you will see Obama and Biden whoop McCain's ass all over the place. Except...

The liberal blogosphere — which usually erupts with ad hominem attacks on the messenger whenever it is subject to the mildest, even-handed criticisms — has been eerily silent since last week’s revelation that MyDD.com founder and DailyKos ally Jerome Armstrong is the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation for allegedly taking money to promote a stock on a prominent online bulletin board.

You’ve got to give liberals one thing: If they’re nothing else, they’re consistent about spewing garbage, thereby proving that those who make a religion of politics and gods of politicians will lie any lie, hiss any hypocrisy, sell out any mother, and Sister Souljah any principle if they believe doing so might earn them a scrap of political power. That thought comes to mind because no sooner had I finished writing that Governor Palin must prepare herself to bear “the worst slings and arrows of outrageous presidential politics” than, like everyone else, I found myself up to my nose in...

Oh noes! Palin is terroist! Daily Kos: Palin’s AIP group has terroists [sic] ties. "I just obtained this info. and need help getting it to go viral. AIP Is not a harmless group. It seems that they are tied to terrorist. Please help this go viral. If this was a Dem. Candidate, this would be on the msm 24/7. The scoop below the fold." Wait a minute! I thought the official Daily Kos talking point was that Al Qaeda is no threat at all? You have to wonder if there’s a point where these morons are embarrassed by the sheer...

Nutcase bloggers will have to find another smear against Sarah Palin … again. Did you hear that Todd Palin’s former business partner tried to get his divorce records sealed? Conspiracy theorists immediately began speculating on line that Sarah Palin — that vixen! — must have had an affair and broken up the marriage. Why else would the partner suddenly act to seal his records? As the Smoking Gun discovered, Scott Richter wanted them sealed — to protect himself from conspiracy theorists: --------------------- So when the blogosphere discovered today (via an online court docket) that Scott Richter, a Palin associate, personally...

Just thought that the head koskid should have the courtesy of getting the proper reviews for his latest book. http://www.amazon.com/Taking-System-Radical-Change-Digital/dp/0451225198/ref=cm_cr-mr-title

The Kos: “Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor” Oh we get it Kos. So Palin is Pilate and THE ONE is Jesus. Right. Which proves why the devil is a lousy theologian. Fact is that Jesus wasn’t anything of the kind. True he was called a “rabble rouser, drunkard, glutton and friend of sinners”, but he was never accused of, nor worked as a community organizer. In fact his followers then we anxious at the fact that he seemed totally disinterested at the “social ills” of his time, speaking of a world to come and...

I have to admit, at first there I was pretty angry. Outraged. Infuriated. Spitting-bullets mad. I'm talking of course about the vile attacks against Governor Sarah Palin by the Left and their willing accomplices in the Media. Never have I seen such scurrilous, contemptible, despicable gutter tactics. But now I have moved past that stage of rage and taken on an attitude of gratitude. Yes, GRATITUDE! Let's THANK the Looney Left, as exemplified and led by Head KOmmie KOs, for their beyond-the-pale, sexist, hypocritical, personal smears of Governor Palin and her children. THANX, Head KOmmie KOs! You have KOntributed...

I read through the scandalous posts on Daily Kos, Huffington Post and DU today. Let us not behave like these animals!!! During my formative years, I was bullied badly. My family was great! The public school did nothing. I turned to God and went to every church service in my town. It gave make hope and peace so much that today I go into every church I find love. Please DO NOT turn us into them!!!!!! I turned my life around from abuse to amazing friendship by living by the Golden Rule. They will DESTROY THEMSELVES through their anger, hate,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The blogs are alive with the sound of Sarah. Republican candidate John McCain's staffers may deplore the online rumor mill that forced them to announce the pregnancy of newly minted running mate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter. But experts have some perhaps unwelcome advice: Get used to it. "It used to be that a rumor would float across your desk and you'd say, 'That's just so outrageous we're not even going to respond to it,'" said Republican strategist Todd Harris, a former McCain spokesman. "But nowadays you really have to push back forcefully against almost every single bit...

When Markos Moulitsas saw that one of the contributors to his liberal blog was accusing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of lying about her 4-month-old baby, he was a bit skeptical. "I feel a little weird about the questions being asked," he says. "But I also feel a little weird about saying, 'Shut up, people.' It takes a lot for me to step in and squash what's on Daily Kos." In less than 48 hours, the allegations by a Kos diarist known as ArcXIX ricocheted into the mainstream media, when John McCain's designated running mate announced Monday that her 17-year-old daughter...

PROOF THAT OBAMA DELAGATES KNEW ABOUT BRISTOL, according to a contributor/blogger at obama's official site

How mean, how low can a partisan stoop? Mean enough to humiliate a 17-year-old girl at the time she needs sympathy and understanding. Low enough to bruise the broken heart of a girl's mother and to mock a father's affection. Within minutes after John McCain introduced Sarah Palin as his running mate, the blog sites on the sleaziest margins of the Democratic left went to work on the deconstruction of the lady of the far north.....[ snip ] But resentment from the left boiled into rage when they learned that not only did Mrs. Palin oppose abortion as a matter...

Obama author Andy Martin says smears are an integral part of any Barack Obama/David Axelrod operation. Martin says Obama controls a sophisticated network of left-wing bloggers and mainstream media dupes.

We are pleased to announce that Sen. John Edwards, Sen. Barack Obama, and Gov. Bill Richardson confirmed their participation in a Presidential Leadership Forum to be held August 4 in Chicago. Confirmations from other candidates are forthcoming. The event—the first ever collaborative presidential forum with both a respected blogger and a leading member of the traditional media as moderators—is an opportunity to use technology to empower citizens to engage and evaluate America's potential leaders, both face-to-face and online. Many political candidates, including Edwards and Obama, already frequently use sites like Daily Kos to dialogue with the public.

We noted the nutroots’ deepening Palin Derangement Syndrome over the weekend, topped by a diarist at the Daily Kos who’s been spreading disgusting, bottom-of-the-barrel rumors — picked up by the excitable and shameless Andrew Sullivan — about Gov. Sarah Palin’s youngest child and attacking one of Palin’s daughters as the mother of Trig. The Free Republic fights back with photos of a very pregnant Gov. Palin in late February. I linked to an April blog post from an airline passenger who met the pregnant governor on a flight from Fairbanks. It is unbelievably surreal that this dirtbag Kossack rumor has...

Look at the video. Morons at Daily Kos now suggest sexual appeal between McCain and Palin and imply this was the reason she was chosen ! Here is the line of DK added to the linked video : "You know, there was a time when he didn't stare at an ass for five and a half years..." Outrageous liberal pigs. Stand to them !

Wirh the leftist fringe attacking Governor Sarah Palin, her Down Syndrome Baby and her innocent teenaged daughter, I thought I'd post an update. Here are some of the updates on the ignorant, hatemongering story that Gov. Palin "faked" her pregnancy that I have been keeping up with. (I was going to say "keeping abreast" with, but...) Update #2- One Woman's Eyewitness Account of Pregnant Palin All the speculation on whether Governor Palin was pregnant is easily put to rest by the eyewitness account of Elizabeth Eubanks from April 29 of this year. Eubanks was in an airport in Fairbanks waiting...

It was to be expected that the left wing smear machine would go into overdrive upon the announcement of Governor Palin as John McCain's veep nomination. What was not expected was how unbelievably low they would be willing to go. Several lefty outlets including Daily Kos and Democratic Underground that are running with the smear saying that Governor Palin's youngest son

Bloggers here and here ] are all over the theory that Sarah Palin's four-month-old baby may actually be her grandchild - the son of her 16-year-old daughter, who missed most of the last school year with what the family said was mononucleosis. [ snip ] My first thought is that this sort of scrutiny has to be really hard on the 16-year-old girl in question. And my second thought was that IF this turns out to be true, I'll find it a really scary example - perhaps the most scary example of anything I've seen in a long time -...

As I reported earlier, the scurrilous claim that McCain vice presidential pick Governor Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy with a Down's Syndrome child is beginning to spread among the lowest of the nutrooters. Now, the unhinged, smear site DemocraticUnderground.com has boosted this lie to their front pages. Naturally, since these hate sites feed into each other, the spurious source of the DU story is another DailyKos story like the one I earlier reported upon. Of course, this whole meme is nothing but a lie. Are we expected to believe an entire state, its hospitals, doctors and media establishment helped cover...

Taking a look at the stories in the Old Media will show that the Media is turning attack dog ASAP on McCain's choice for vice president, Sarah Palin. Notice the main meme is her supposed "inexperience." Funny how Palin was the VP pick for about 15 seconds before the Old Media went after her "inexperience" while they have yet to hit Barry Obama on HIS inexperience at all and he's been running for president since 2004. We should also note that Palin didn't get the honeymoon that Biden got when his announcement was made. But, the worst is yet to...

Taking a look at the stories in the Old Media will show that the Media is turning attack dog ASAP on McCain's choice for vice president, Sarah Palin. Notice the main meme is her supposed "inexperience." Funny how Palin was the VP pick for about 15 seconds before the Old Media went after her "inexperience" while they have yet to hit Barry Obama on HIS inexperience at all and he's been running for president since 2004. We should also note that Palin didn't get the honeymoon that Biden got when his announcement was made. But, the worst is yet to...

Two McCain offices evacuated after letter threat Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:45pm EDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Two offices of John McCain's U.S. presidential campaign, in Colorado and New Hampshire, were evacuated on Thursday, and several staffers were hospitalized, after threatening or suspicious envelopes arrived in the mail, one with an unidentified white powder. The first parcel, described as containing an unspecified threat and a powdery white substance, was opened by a staff member at the campaign's Centennial, Colorado, office, near Denver, at about 3 p.m. local time, U.S. Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley said.

There's been a ton of buzz on the web for the last day or so -- beginning with this Daily Kos diary -- suggesting that John McCain patterned his story about a Vietamese captor drawing a cross in the dirt before him on a similar episode from Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's time in the Soviet gulags. But it turns out that this episode probably never happened to Solzhenitsyn at all, and according to a Solzhenitsyn biographer it appears nowhere in his published writing. Columbia University professor Michael Scammell, the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, says the episode "never happened," and...

This is absolutely crazy and amusing. Some daily kossacks were so upset over 'The Obama Nation', they went to Costco and attempted to hide the books from being seeing by shoppers. Here's what I found on dailykos. In the last election cycle, the CEO of Costco, Jim Sinegal and the Chairman of the Board, Jeffrey Brotman gave generously to progressive causes. I didn't think I would walk into one of their stores to find a copy of "The Obama Nation." My wife and I took action, and turned every copy of the book over so nobody would see the cover....

Apparently, netroots are excited about the lastest buzz of John Kerry as Obama’s VP, I compiled some quotes from dailykos for entertainment purpose. Kerry got the 2nd most votes for Prez EVER, 59 million votes., More than Gore, Clinton, even Reagan ever got, I think we ought to consider this That means nothing. The population is growing. He lost to the worst President in the history of the world. That's enough to DQ him for life, plus 20 years. The population didn't grow by 20% in 4 years . That is the increase between votes for Gore in 2000 and...

ABC News' Jennifer Parker reports: Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Sen. John Edwards has reacted to the news of her husband's affair, posting a blog titled "Today" on the liberal Daily Kos website and asking for privacy for her family. In the blog, Elizabeth Edwards says her husband told her about the affair in 2006 and they worked through it. "This was our private matter," she writes. She heaps blame on the news media for prying into her family's life, writing, "the toll on our family of news helicopters over our house and reporters in our driveway is yet...

Israel Insider is reporting that analysts working separately have determined the birth certificate posted on the Daily Kos website and later on Sen. Barack Obama's "Fight the Smears" campaign website is fraudulent, and now two different actions have been launched to try and obtain the truth about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's birth. The Israel Insider report said the two analysts it interviewed both have been "able to independently discern the name 'Maya Kassandra Soetoro' from artifacts left behind in the process of forging a new fake document for Barack from an image of Maya's original document." Maya is Obama's...

Digg this The John Edwards/Rielle Hunter story continues to, as they say, develop. You might even say it’s gestating. Whether the “legitimate” news likes it or not: Lee Stranahan, who posted the first (only?) serious, thoughtful analysis of the whole mess at the Huffington Post, has been banned from the Daily Kos for daring to talk about it there. Some Wikipedians keep trying to add the forbidden name “Rielle Hunter” to thoroughly relevant entries, and other Wikipedians keep taking it out. In the Wiki entry for the 1988 Jay McInerney novel Story of My Life, one brave soul has added...

Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but Sunday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate -- actually a "Certification of Live Birth" or COLB -- claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: "a horribly forgery," according to the analysis published on the popular right-wing Atlas Shrugs blog. The purported Certification of Live Birth published by the Daily Kos left wing blog and claimed as genuine by the Obama campaign features a security border...

There are three facts about Internet blog stories that you need to know: Plagiarism is rampant on the Internet. You cannot always believe what you see and read.When you see the word, "EXCLUSIVE," in the title, it does not mean that the story was the first one or even the only one. You can imagine my chagrin when I read the following headline in the Atlasshruggs blog: ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FINAL REPORT ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE INWhat this headline, and the story it trumpets, confirm is that all three of the "facts" listed above are validated...

I approached the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas, last week thinking in generational terms. I felt old at 52 as I imagined joining this conference of over 2,000 progressive bloggers and blog-watchers as one of its older and least technologically competent attendees. Certainly, my sessions made it wonderfully clear that there is a powerful force in American political and cultural life coming from the generation 10 to 30 years younger than I. But the movement of progressive bloggers is quite diverse. Both genders. All ages. More white than not, but people of color involved in all events, and sessions...

Many of us have taken to calling the media establishment the "MSM," or "Mainstream Media." But is that a fair and properly descriptive monicker to bestow upon them? A New York Times Blogger pondered that very question on July 21 in a "The Caucus" blog entry -- one that was a barely disguised effort to highlight and advertise the opinion of one Markos Moulitsas of the DailyKos. Still, regardless of the origin of the question, it is an interesting point to ponder. With the failing of newspapers country wide, with the ever falling audience that the big three TV networks...