Posted on 06/14/2006 8:48:20 AM PDT by jodiluvshoes
The left has found its newest sex symbol. His name is Markos Moulitsas, and he's the founder of the eponymous Daily Kos, a popular radical liberal blog garnering thousands of visitors each day. The lonely Blanche DuBois of The New York Times editorial page, Maureen Dowd, describes Moulitsas as the "fast-talking former Army artillery scout with the boyish demeanor and dark brown buggy eyes," and calls him an "Internet messiah." Ana Marie Cox, the Internet potty-mouth turned Time magazine reporter, breathes shallowly and does her lipstick: "Compact and wiry, Moulitsas, 34, exudes quivering intensity. He speaks in staccato paragraphs, punctuated by intense stares and a raised eyebrow. His eyes bulge slightly outward, as if reacting to the pressure of all the ideas inside his head."
Or the fever in his brain.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Right
and they have more traffic than FR.
If they are going to discuss that site by name, they MUST mention FreeRepublic.com by name.
but that is about balance.
PS see graph above.
Put long hair and lipstick on this one and let's call him
Marki.
Ok, look, this guy is an absolute dweeb. He doesn't seem to exude a "quivering intensity" so much as the weird quakings one might observe the carcass of a chicken make when it's head is also severed from the rest of the body.
Well, maybe if they showed up to debates armed with facts and logic they wouldn't constantly lose. But, then again, if they used facts and logic, they wouldn't be "progressives".
A blast from the past, #57.
"That guy's a sex symbol?"
To lesbians, maybe.
Bingo! And.....it's Farsi!
Middle Eastern women refer to their, ummm, nether regions, colloquially as their "kos,kos".
'Kos', as a site name, has to be this guys private(no pun) joke on all the Western airheads who dial it in, ya think??
~GCR~
"He is now a political consultant in Berkley California where he runs the Daily Kos."
Perfect place for him in Berkley.
FROM 2004
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2004-12-15/news/feature_full.html
In April, Moulitsas made a gaffe that accidentally linked his fortunes to those of Seemann. In writing a post about the four civilian contractors who had been brutally killed in Fallujah on March 31, his emotions overshot his sense of diplomacy. "I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries," he wrote. "Screw them." The response from the political establishment was immediate. The Kerry campaign delinked from his site. Conservative blogs denounced him as a hatemonger and pressed Democratic candidates who advertised on Daily Kos to withdraw their support. Three of them pulled their ads. Daily Kos readers began to worry that the Web site was toast.
Enter longtime blog reader, Daily Kos regular, and long-shot congressional candidate Seemann, who became the first candidate to place a new ad after the pullout. At that moment, things didn't look too bright for Seemann's candidacy. He was an ordinary guy from Canton, Ohio, who had dropped out of college and worked as a disc jockey, sportswriter, and music researcher for Clear Channel Communications. His entry into public life followed an accidental fall that shattered his elbow and taught him that his insurance wouldn't fully cover his medical bills. When the cost of medical care forced Seemann into bankruptcy, he had a revelation about the shoddy state of American health care. Something needed to be done, he decided, so he ran for the House of Representatives from Ohio's sixteenth Congressional District. Given that the Republican incumbent, Ralph Regula, had held the district for 32 years, the Democratic Party wasn't even planning to run anyone for the seat. Regula's last two challengers hadn't even raised the $5,000 necessary to file initial Federal Elections Commission reports.
But once Seemann placed his ad on Moulitsas' Web site, something amazing happened. The Daily Kos community repaid his loyalty by emptying their own wallets. "The place went nuts," recalls Tim Tagaris, who served as Seemann's communications director. "Everyone was so worried about Markos. There became this mini-fund-raising drive for Jeff Seemann."
Seemann's candidacy became highly Web-powered, supported in large part by donors and volunteers from nowhere near Ohio. A half-dozen staff members, including Tagaris, were hired from connections made on Daily Kos or other blogs. Most of the staff, from the candidate on down, routinely visited the blogs to talk shop and make friends. Tagaris posted drafts of Seemann's campaign speeches to solicit critiques; one day the campaign even let the community vote on Seemann's schedule. In the end, Tagaris says, the campaign raised about $60,000, or roughly half of its funding, from Daily Kos readers, and another 35 percent from other Internet sources. Tagaris says Daily Kos "turned a candidate who was destined for anonymity into a viable candidate."
But even with the help of the Daily Kos community, Seemann did little better than his forebears, garnering only about 33 percent of the vote. In fact, the entire Kos Dozen lost -- all fifteen of them. So did Dean. So did Clark. So, of course, did Kerry.
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"The awesome power of sites like Daily Kos certainly has not been overlooked by the political establishment. Shortly after the election, Moulitsas spent one morning scoffing online at a second Kerry presidential bid; he'd also recently criticized the campaign for mainly using its multimillion-name e-mail list to solicit donations, instead of rallying voters to the polls. But despite Moulitsas' snark on Kerry, that afternoon his cell phone rang with a Kerry operative wanting to do an election post-mortem. Moulitsas gave him some friendly advice: stay away from making claims about fraud in Ohio until there's conclusive evidence, and concentrate on using that e-mail list and the campaign's leftover $30 million to help Democrats take the 2006 midterms. "
FYI and a warning for 2006
He looks like Jon Cryer. What a stud.
"During the campaign, for instance, Moulitsas' connections to the Dean and Clark campaigns raised more than a few eyebrows. Brian Reich, writing on the Web site Personal Democracy Forum, dubbed the Daily Kos "machine politics 2.0." He criticized Armstrong-Zúniga for not revealing its client roster during the '04 campaign season, and suggested that both men used their blogs to push the consulting firm's candidates. "While the Daily Kos is a community site, it is hardly a democracy," Reich writes. "Make no mistake, it is Kos' world, and his readers and writers are all just playing into it." "
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http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2004-12-15/news/feature_full.html
SEEMS THE DAILY KOS IS A WEB "BLOG" FOR HIRE.
If you pay Mr. Kos a "consulting fee" the Daily Kos will endorse you.
Sweet. (is this a campaign finance violation?)
LOL, "Move 50 yards north! We'll know when we're on target when you stop responding on the radio."
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