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Kos is doing an excellent job of non-reacting. (none / 0)

Silence can make a powerful statement when expressed with confidence at the property time and place.

Bryan E. Burke, Chair of Eastern Washington Voters; www.ewvoters.org

by bryanb on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 07:08:35 PM PDT

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- Nope (none / 0)
  
  Kerry didn't react to the Swift Boat Vets until it was too late.
  The DailyKos is too robust for any one smear campaign to sink the site. But there is no need to see Jerome & Kos have their credibility questioned when they did nothing wrong.
  Further, the liberal blogosophere should use this opportunity to our favor. Jerome & Kos should use the spotlight to attack Bush, Williams, and the Republican noise machine.
  
  by Dean Democrat on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 07:16:31 PM PDT
  
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  - I agree (none / 1)
    
    This give Markos a window like no other. Even though Novakula is a disgusting vile creature, he has done us a favor.
    Everyone will want to know who are the two unnamed bloggers. Kos gets a platform, and can then question the bonafides of every RW blogger and psuedo journalist out there.
    There is nothing to lose, as they hate and fear us anyway. Might as well stoke that fire...drive the day of reckoning ever closer. Make it a duck pit day to remember.
    
    Now with new improved snark !!
    
    by SnarkyShark on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 07:48:21 PM PDT
    
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    - Fear (none / 0)
      
      "There is nothing to lose, as they hate and fear us anyway."
      They also feat DEAN. Just like they feared him facing off against Bush, they fear him running the DNC.
      
      The Daily Show Blog. Get Daily Show transcripts.
      
      by political on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 07:59:57 PM PDT
      
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      - My two diary entries (none / 0)
        
        that I posted earlier today picked up on the same theme:
        http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/14/124747/840
        http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/14/193137/914
        
        by Progressive on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 08:09:24 PM PDT
        
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- Except he has reacted forcefully (none / 0)
  
  Not sure I follow you.
  
  Everybody dies alone.
  
  by Armando on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 07:26:43 PM PDT
  
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  - Too little, too late (none / 1)
    
    Kerry reacted forcefully, but days after the fact.
    If Jerome & Kos act now, they'll be quoted in attack mode in the major publications. If they aggressively pursue op-ed columns, they'll have an attack column published in a major newspaper or two. If they instruct Kossacks to go after media outlets that pick-up the story, they'll turn a negative, a "story" about liberal bloggers "on the take," -- into a positive, an opportunity to attack John Thune, Armstrong Williams and the mainstream meadia.
    
    by Dean Democrat on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 07:37:56 PM PDT
    
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    - I meant kos (none / 0)
      
      Everybody dies alone.
      
      by Armando on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 07:42:11 PM PDT
      
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      - Got it. (none / 1)
        
        Kos has reacted forcefully. But his initial reaction was to attack Zephyr. And to continue hammering Williams.
        A fine beginning. But not enough. Demand the stage. Ask to go on CNN, Fox News, etc. Ask to pen an op-ed in the Post. Or the Times.
        Use this opportunity to keep Williams' payments in the news. (Particularly important given Bush's recent decision to push for expansion of NCLB to high schools).
        
        by Dean Democrat on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 07:44:17 PM PDT
        
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        Not ask, demand (none / 0)
        
        As in, demand a public, abject retraction or, better, the opportunity to respond on air.
        I'm in the camp that says this is outright libel, and Kos should not be shy. He should demand the retraction, and he should use the "L" word
        
        by sharman on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 09:32:39 PM PDT
        
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  - Imagine, for example (none / 1)
    
    if a day after Swift Boats hit the air, the Kerry campaign funded a "Purple Heart Veterans for Truth" ad attacking Bush for failing to fulfill his national guard duties.
    Or a satire, a "Yacht Boat Veterans for Truth" that noted Bush's activities during the war.
    
    by Dean Democrat on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 07:39:35 PM PDT
    
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    - It'd have taken five to seven days to produce (none / 0)
      
      At which point the blogsphere would have already been complaining that Kerry was doing nothing, and what a douchebag he was, etcetera. Anyway, otherwise, I agree with you...
      
      Stephanie Dray
      of Jousting for Justice, a lefty blog with a Maryland tilt.
      
      by stephdray on Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 10:07:53 PM PDT
      
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- How is Kos non-reacting (none / 0)
  
  with his front page blogs above that are read by thousands of people.
  I'd call that a reaction.
  
  This above all: to thine own self be true...-WS
  
  by Agathena on Sat Jan 15, 2005 at 12:28:18 AM PDT
  
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