Not having pay-for teevee currently I have taken to watching all kinds of stuff on Youtube. Occasionally I’ll watch “Ring of Fire” by Farron Cousins. In this August 15 2018 video discussing the West Virginia supreme court impeachment Farron takes objection to an un-named Daily Kos blog which tends to put progressives in a poor. The “shout-out” comes at 2:18.
And here's the sickening part to me though. In addition to the spending scandals, the witness tampering, the fraud, the false statements, all of that, is that there's actually some Democrats out here who are furious that this has happened. The Daily Coast is mad because they're saying, "Oh, this is just the Republicans and the legislature, they're trying to take back over the court. You could tell that from the timing of this."
Sadly Farron does not mention the blog title or author. I generally enjoy his presentations, and I perked up when I heard the shout-out to DK. Then I read the transcript, and searched the comments to see if anyone else spoke up. Not seeing any other reaction I posted a comment requesting the title of the blog post. Upon a re-listen, Farron does not say “Coast” so that’s probably a auto complete bug. But he does paint everyone here with a wide, damning brush.
Part of me considers the fact that Daily Kos has some renown, and any troll farmer in Macedonia can post almost anything anywhere these days. Discord is sown.
Sadly I’m off to bed shortly so unable to comment below.