You shall know them by their enemies. By that standard Daily Kos is doing spectacularly well. It is under attack by the Murdoch Mafia. First they ignored us. Now they are in the angry stage. Some day we'll win.
Remember, if Daily Kos had been irrelevant Murdoch Mafia would not be coming after us. Take it as an encouraging sign. It shows they are worried. These people are used to monopolizing the airwaves an op-ed pages. Their idea of a liberal columnist is Richard Cohen, a fake liberal in neocon op-ed page of the Washington Post. They are not used to genuine liberals. Their idea of a balanced panel is Bob Novak and David Broder on Meet the Press. And all of a sudden there are all these real liberals all over the Internet; Kos, Josh Marshall, Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, Eric Alterman............They are freaking out!
Joe Conason's latest;
http://www.observer.com/...
"The Murdoch empire, operating as the Fox News Channel, has mounted a crusade against DailyKos.com, the largest progressive political Web site, and YearlyKos, the site’s annual blogger convention, which will take place in Chicago next month. On his nightly broadcast, Fox News sage Bill O’Reilly charged that the proprietors of Daily Kos are "hatemongers" like the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazis—and targeted JetBlue for serving as a sponsor and the official airline of YearlyKos."
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"Then came Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, another Murdoch minion, who tried to frighten the Democrats away from Daily Kos. "Every Democratic presidential nominee is going to the Daily Kos convention," he sniffed. "That’s the left-wing blogger who was not respectable three or four years ago.... Now the whole party is going to pay court to him and to left-wing blogs."