Excommunicated (Kos Strikes Out at the New Republic)

The New Republic ^ | June 23, 2006 | Jonathan Chait

[backhoe]

I've been following this interesting exercise in foolishness- latest updates here:

Pajamahadeen Rule... rise of the New Media
various FR links | 09-17-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219250/posts?page=312#312

[Erasmus]

Maybe we need this guy to do a riff on Kos and his Krazies. (WARNING: video clip; not for the easily offended!)

The Kid From Brooklyn

[FreedomPoster]

The littlegreenfootballs take on this is worth a look. A good summary, and a nice pic.

Daily Kos: The Townhouse Affair
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21172_Daily_Kos-_The_Townhouse_Affair&only

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In fairness, TNR is quite readable.

[L.N. Smithee]

Jeez Louise! The guy who confessed that he indeed hates George W. Bush doesn't hate him enough for Kos.

[L.N. Smithee]

This guy, KOS, is really full of himself. Pride cometh before a great fall. He is going to self implode. His track record of backing 14 or 15 loosers speaks volumes too.

Hasn't slowed down MoveOn quite yet. They targeted the House Managers for defeat and didn't lay a glove on a single one of them.

[backhoe]

...and a nice pic.

Indeed...

[samtheman]

TNR has some interesting articles sometimes but they are definitely biased, especially against the war and against capitalism. Interesting that they aren't biased enough to satisfy the insane cravings of the leftist yahoos who are now the controlling voice of the rat party.

[J. L. Chamberlain II]

Dummies eating their own. Gotta love it.

Think again. TNR is controlled by a bunch of pubbies and "third way" Clintonistas. The people the Kos Kidz hate the most, so he was right to call for dumping them. I read them for years but lost interest after they backed the stupid plan for DHS and then the even more idiotic call for NDI. They still call and hound via email for me to re-up. No dice.

J

[xp38]

Stalin vs. Trotsky is still the standard among squabbles of the left but even minor scuffles are fun.

[RoadTest]

"In fairness, TNR is quite readable."

Yes. If it still like it was in the 60s when I subscribed to it, it doesn't follow the Liberal party line but frequently takes apart that line. They always seemed reasonable to me.

[Jameison]

"I read somewhere that Markos is married and has a kid"

So was perverted former NJ Governor James McGreevey. That didn't stop the creep from cruising the highways looking for BJ's.
If anything, Kos looks even more creepy than McGreevey.

[BunnySlippers]

BUMP

[Aquinasfan]

This is like the Catholic Church digging up the heretic it had already burned at the stake so it can excommunicate the corpse a second time.

Or like Jews lending money at exhorbitant interest rates. Can you imagine the writer making a remark like that? Yet the author doesn't think twice about taking gratuitous slap at the Catholic Church in an article that has nothing to do with religion, proving that anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable form of bigotry.

[Jameison]

"TNR is controlled by a bunch of pubbies and "third way" Clintonistas"


Who are these "pubbies" as you call them, then? "The people the Kos Kidz hate the most, "

Kos kids hate practically everyboby (unless of course you are a rabid American hating vermin like Bin Laden), including even on occasion, themselves, but they hate President Bush even more than anyone one else on the planet right now. There is no BDS like Kos BDS.

[KosmicKitty]

Looks like TNR didn't provide a big enough chocolate fountain at the Yearly Kos!!

[Jameison]

"Looks like TNR didn't provide a big enough chocolate fountain at the Yearly Kos!!"

Heh Heh!

[SampleMan]

Of course, that money will just go to Mother Jones or Utne Reader anyway

You left out "High Times".

[SampleMan]

This is a real conundrum. They're too conservative for the Democrat party anymore, but if enough of them really did become Republicans, we'd have a bigger majority but more moderate party.

Well here is a better scenario. The Democratic Party fractures into two parties, with Progressives dragging away about 10-15% of the party. This small Progressive Party would be totally ignorable and would just stew in their own juices. The Democratic Party would have a very minority status and would have to run to the right to fight the Republicans for votes.

[J. L. Chamberlain II]

Who are these "pubbies" as you call them, then?

Just read the masthead. Do some searches and donor look-ups. You'll quickly get the point.

There is no BDS like Kos BDS.

Oh yeah, unless you want to talk about immigration on FR. Now, that's the real BDS!

J