INDCJournal: Quoted at DKos

June 22, 2006

Quoted at DKos

Posted by Bill

An entertaining comment by Kos contributor Hunter:

They're the enemy. They're worse than the enemy, ...

My interest grew inflamed: rogue dictators? Murdering terrorists? Had a leader of the nutroots ditched any outsized moral equivalency and boldly identified a target worthy of reptilian extermination? Well, sure:

... because they're attempting to pretend they're still on the side of progressives and liberals while publishing false innuendos and libels against us.

He's talking about the dastardly New Republic, of course.

Kos is officially advocating a boycott of the magazine - extending to retail interference - for TNR's Plank feature on Kosola, a story framed by Zuniga as a symptom of the institutional mag's desperate legacy liberal survival instinct and shift to ... the dark side:

If you still hold a subscription to that magazine, it really is time to call it quits. If you see it in a magazine rack, you might as well move it behind the National Review or even NewsMax, since that's who they want to be associated with these days.

As I mentioned previously, this is fun.

(Via the Commissar)

UPDATE: More fun!

UPDATE: While I find the reactions of Kossacks amusing (and telling), I have to admit that I'm still only half-moved by the scandal aspect of it. The tenor of Instapundit's coverage strikes me as about right, where Reynolds features Daniel Drezner's relevant assessment:

"What's going on is not illegal, or even out of the ordinary in Washington, DC. It's politics as usual. The only reason the story is noteworthy is because bloggers like Kos have persistently said that they and theirs -- a.k.a., the netroots -- are not about politics as usual. Over time, however, that claim looks less and less viable. The question is whether bloggers like Kos find that their legions of readers are turned off by these kind of revelations, or whether they comfortably adjust into being middleweight power brokers."

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Hunter's the guy who wrote the big defense of the Rathergate memos over there, isn't he?

Posted by: Allah at June 22, 2006 03:47 PM

Heh. Yes. The unbelievably embarrassing, immortalized defense of the Rathergate memos. Aggressive stupidity and awful analysis, etched in stone.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at June 22, 2006 03:56 PM

It really is Nixonian in that there isn't anything surprising in the story itself to anyone who has a clue about how politics work, but Kos' paranoia is threatening to blow it up in his face. I was reading his e-mail and "nattering nabobs of negativity" kept popping up in my mind. Too funny.

Posted by: B Moe at June 22, 2006 04:27 PM

Once again, the fascist tendencies of the left show themselves. Unless you march lockstep with them, you are their enemy.

Posted by: rbj at June 22, 2006 04:29 PM

I made 6 or 7 comments. They banned me.

Posted by: The Commissar at June 22, 2006 04:37 PM

Wait, I'm confused. I thought "the enemy" was the people who want to kill us, enslave us, or force us to convert to Islam. You know, the guys who want to shove Western women into burkas, mutilate their genitals, and slit their throats if they try to learn to read or drive a car.

But Kos says "the enemy" is The New Republic. If that's the case, shouldn't this war have been over in about five minutes?

Perhaps Kos is fighting a different war than the one I'm thinking about.

Posted by: Harry at June 22, 2006 10:26 PM

For the record, I could kick the New Republic's ass and salt the earth behind me.

You know, if I so chose. *wink*

Posted by: Bill from INDC at June 22, 2006 10:34 PM

I'd enjoy this more if someone would p-shop Markos's head on to Bogie's in the courtroom scene from "The Caine Mutiny."
The strawberries..."

Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin at June 22, 2006 11:27 PM

It isn't "The Kos Mutiny", but damn is it funny.

Posted by: dorkafork at June 22, 2006 11:39 PM

It's the Pat Buchanan brigades writ large. It really is.

I often wonder if I'm the only one who remembers...

Posted by: Dean Esmay at June 23, 2006 05:19 AM

LOL I’m trying to imagine the reaction if it turned out that…

1) Glenn Reynolds gave the appearance of working a “pay-for-play” deal where he gave candidates favorable coverage in exchange for ad money, chocolate fountains, and hiring his buddies as consultants

2) The Powerline guys were pushing corporate clients’ interests without disclosing they had such clients

3) Charles Johnson had been charged by the SEC for a pump-and-dump scheme that defrauded investors

Oh, and they all belonged to an email list of conservative-ish bloggers intended to keep all the talking points straight—and Glenn asked everyone on the list to keep quiet on the stories so they would die.

A non-story, right sinestrospherophiles? And anyone who reported it would be trying to destroy the people-powered center-right movement?

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