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The Legacy Of The Daily Kos
Townhall.com ^ | August 3, 2007 | John Hawkins

Posted on 08/03/2007 6:29:32 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
For me, the most interesting aspect of the KOS-ification of the Democrats is their tacit acceptance of political extremism in a time of war. The willingness of "serious" Democrat candidates for President to ally themselves with people who openly agitate for US military defeat and the overthrow of our government has occurred before: specifically in 1972. The result was a 49-state blowout of George McGovern by the hated Richard Nixon.

The Republicans have been handed a gift here, but require a candidate willing and able to make use of it, and that person has not yet emerged. As in '72, the news media will be of no help whatsoever to the Republican candidate; whoever the ultimate Democrat candidate will be, it will take a relentless campaign to reveal the sort of people with whom that person has associated, and the danger they pose to the safety and security of our nation. And it is all the more vital for Republicans to act, as the stakes are a wee bit higher today than they were 35 years ago.

It was disgusting when people on the Left openly rooted for the Viet Cong. How much more disgusting is it to watch them today rooting for al Qaeda?

41 posted on 08/03/2007 7:12:13 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (There are two kinds of people: those who get it, and those who need to.)
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To: Califreak

Yeah, the profanity is enough to turn most people away.

I don’t give much thought to people comparing these two sites.

Any rational human can look at these too sights and see the difference. And I challenge any intelligent adult (without an agenda or a ratings quota) to look at Kos and NOT think these people are crazy.


42 posted on 08/03/2007 7:14:00 AM PDT by shbox
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To: Kaslin
"But do I still support the individual men and women who have given so much to serve their country? No. I think they’re a bunch of idiots. I also think they’re morally retarded. Because they sign a contract that says they will kill whoever you tell me to kill. And that is morally retarded." -- AWhitneyBrown

Does anybody remember this mental midget from Saturday Night Live? He appeared on Weekend Update doing a lame commentary called The Big Picture back in the 80s.

Dear A.(we know what "A." stands for , don't we?),

If not for the military personnel that you impugn, your freedom to sneer at them would not exist. Gee, I wonder how your kind of middle school insults would have gone over with the Third Reich? Or the the Politburo? Because of those who are willing to give all for their country, even unfunny, mewling saps like you retain the freedom to speak your mind.

And let's face it... if the likes of you were actually in control, those of us who disagree with you would lose that right in a heartbeat. You would label it "hate speech" and destroy those who believe in actual free speech. You're all the same on the Left: self-righteous hypocrites who whine about your rights while doing everything in your power to deny them to others.

Thank God (would reference to God remain legal if you had control, A.?), soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines don't agree with you and are willing to lay down their lives even for pasty simps like you who hold them in contempt, but couldn't carry their jockstraps on the best day of their lives.

I predict the day will come when you will cry for the military to save your sorry a$$ from those who would attack our nation. I hope those brave souls still exist at that time and have not been so discouraged by your smirking hatred that they haven't just walked away.

Worst regards, Doc Thorne

43 posted on 08/03/2007 7:15:37 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Compromise on your vote and you get a compromised government.)
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To: Kaslin
"But do I still support the individual men and women who have given so much to serve their country? No. I think they’re a bunch of idiots. I also think they’re morally retarded. Because they sign a contract that says they will kill whoever you tell me to kill. And that is morally retarded." -- AWhitneyBrown

In fairness to the site (like how the media attacks FR unjustly), there are plenty of contrary replies to that video by liberals at Kos to A. Whitney Brown's commentaries. You can allow people to post things at your site for the reason that you also allow people to call those people out for what they wrote and you can feel that you are being fair and you'd be correct. Brown isn't saying things like Bush should be assassinated or whatever.

44 posted on 08/03/2007 7:19:53 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Kaslin

Yes, Daily Kos is far more powerful than MoveOn.org could ever dream of being.
MoveOn.org is nothing but a little pissant compared to Daily Kos.


45 posted on 08/03/2007 7:20:01 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Dr. Thorne
Does anybody remember this mental midget from Saturday Night Live? He appeared on Weekend Update doing a lame commentary called The Big Picture back in the 80s.

Yes! Thank you for the reminder. I knew the name sounded familiar. He was not funny at all.

46 posted on 08/03/2007 7:23:07 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: in hoc signo vinces

Lots of Freepers emailed Bill about his story. He read those emails during last night’s show, and seemed to shed a better light on this Forum. It doesn’t appear O’Reilly thinks we’re anything like the children that post on Kos.

Can you paraphrase some of those letters for those of us who already bailed on O’Reilly?


47 posted on 08/03/2007 7:37:00 AM PDT by Help!
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To: Red_Devil 232

Also, I left the word “me” out after “Excuse”


48 posted on 08/03/2007 7:38:22 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I just play one on Free Republic. THOMPSON 2008!)
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To: Kaslin
The subscribers and posters there (kos) are 60' Radical wannabe's....

Basically, just against EVERYTHING (anti-establishment, anti-Constitution as intended, and anti-rules).

As far as their founder's views:

"My heroes are Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Cesar Chavez"....(quote from Markos Moulitsas Zúniga)

Anything to make money, and enough nutcases in this world to think they have the Utopian Socilaist answer via their ignorance of reality and responsiblity to keep him in a capitalist endeavor while espousing socialism.

'Nuff said.

49 posted on 08/03/2007 7:38:47 AM PDT by traditional1
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To: Help!
Can you paraphrase some of those letters for those of us who already bailed on O’Reilly?

I watched last night for the express purpose of seeing if O'Reilly recanted at all about FR. He read pithy snippets from 3 pro-FR letters. The one I remember most was along these lines:

"I did a search for the F-word on both Daily Kos and Free Republic. Results: Daily Kos, over 7,000 hits. Free Republic, zero."

50 posted on 08/03/2007 7:57:33 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ( “A nation without borders is not a nation.” —Ronald Reagan)
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To: Help!

Sure:

“Dear Bill, I fear those over at Kos more than I fear Al Qaeda.”

“Dear Bill, I am 100% sure those posts you cited on FREEREPUBLIC were plants.”

etc...


51 posted on 08/03/2007 8:03:32 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: shbox

“In fact I wish every person in the country would read it. Then people would begin to realize just how delusional these people are.”

Can I just take your word for it? :-)


52 posted on 08/03/2007 8:04:33 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: traditional1

“My heroes are Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Cesar Chavez”....

My heroes are Archbishop Raymond Burke, Tony Snow . . . .


53 posted on 08/03/2007 8:07:25 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: Albion Wilde

And as I recall BOR kind of shucked it off, like it was no big deal, and then went back to his “FR need a full-time moderator” whine. Made me sick. If anyplace needs a moderator, it’s Kos. Of course, the moderator would be swamped if he tried to delete all of the posts over there containing the f-word. Not much would be left.


54 posted on 08/03/2007 8:07:52 AM PDT by chimera
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To: Kaslin

Notice how the left “supports the troops” in their quotes.

I baited one leftist into admitting how they think of our military.
I got him to say that everyone he knows looks on military members with pity, like you’d treat a retarded person.

One of the quotes in the article actually referred to “moral retardation”.

Oh, and the poem “It is the Soldier” REALLY p’s them off.


55 posted on 08/03/2007 8:08:30 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Kaslin

Thanks for this thread.


56 posted on 08/03/2007 8:10:37 AM PDT by WKB (It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
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To: shbox
In fact I wish every person in the country would read it.

Only if they have a strong stomach. I mean, the place is a filthy, stinking sewer of a website. You can't read a typical post over there without encountering the f-word at least a half-dozen times. Not to mention the pure, unadulterated, virulent hatred that seeps from every post. It's a freak show of the first order.

57 posted on 08/03/2007 8:11:04 AM PDT by chimera
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To: Kaslin

“Because filing briefs don’t stop bullets, and when the ballot box fails us, we are not above seeing what’s in the ammo box.” — pinche tejano

You know, Pinche, we call people like you “road kill” in certain parts of the South. So you better keep your little leftist @ss were you are. We KNOW what an ammo box is and we certainly don’t have problems using it. Talk is cheap in Lib land!


58 posted on 08/03/2007 8:13:30 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: Ditter

Kos comes from Markos which is the last name of the founder of the extreme leftwing hate site


59 posted on 08/03/2007 8:14:03 AM PDT by Kaslin (The Surge is working and the li(e)berals know it)
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To: Kaslin

Correction, it comes from the first name of the founder of the extreme leftwing hate site


60 posted on 08/03/2007 8:15:56 AM PDT by Kaslin (The Surge is working and the li(e)berals know it)
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