Yes I agree that sometimes Daily Kos gets a bum rap in the main stream media or whatever you chose to call it but we need to recognize the dangers Daily Kos faces now that it is being critiqued and noticed almost every day. Daily Kos is quoted when the comments are vicious and hateful and a bit crazy. Personally I do not think we here at Kos want to come across as "Progressive Ann Coulters". One Ann Coulter with her always hateful remarks is one too many.
for example: this exerpt from "Opinion Journal" the WSJ online offering.In the first paragraph Peggy Noonan is referring to Hillary Clinton at the SOTU speech as the camera panned to her. This is by Peggy Noonan:
Maybe she knew the habitués of the Daily Kos, and other leftwing Web sites, were watching. Conservatives are always writing about the strains and stresses within the Republican Party, and they are real. But the Democratic Party seems to be near imploding, and for that most humiliating of reasons: its meaninglessness. Republicans are at least arguing over their meaning.
The venom is bubbling on websites like Kos, where Tuesday afternoon, after the Alito vote, various leftists wrote in such comments as "F--- our democratic leaders," "Vichy Democrats" and "F--- Mary Landrieu, I hope she drowns." The old union lunch-pail Democrats are dead, the intellects of the Kennedy and Johnson era retired or gone, and this--I hope she drowns--seems, increasingly, to be the authentic voice of the Democratic base.
How will a sane, stable, serious Democrat get the nomination in 2008 when these are the activists to whom the appeal must be made?
Republicans have crazies. All parties do. But in the case of the Democrats--the leader of their party, after all, is the unhinged Howard Dean--the lunatics seem increasingly to be taking over the long-term health-care facility. Great parties die this way, or show that they are dying.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/...
. Daily Kos is quoted when the comments are vicious and hateful bizarre. not when they are sensible and well expressed without profanity.. Personally I do not think we here at Kos want to come across as "Progressive Ann Coulters". One Ann Coulter with her always hateful remarks is one too many.
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In my opinion we all need to follow Kos example and make the points that need to be made without adopting a rabid Coulter profane attitude. She is a joke. Daily Kos is legit.