Dear vast right wing conspiracy,
In your face!
Love,
Liberal America
Allow me to explain the concept of "daily reach". This site now reaches about 700 out of every million web users, every single day. 0.07% might not sound like a lot, but it's huge. On May 1, 2006, 1-in-500 readers of the web stopped by this site. As we shall see after the jump, this popularity is just a hint of the success that's happening here.
Almost four years ago, on May 26, 2002, Kos started dailykos.net with the following declaration.
I am progressive. I am liberal. I make no apologies. I believe government has an obligation to create an even playing field for all of this country's citizens and immigrants alike. I am not a socialist. I do not seek enforced equality. However, there has to be equality of opportunity, and the private sector, left to its own devices, will never achieve this goal.
In October 2003, the proprietor made the visionary decision to switch the site from blogging software Moveable Type to the collaborative community system we all love: Scoop. The dKos community has since eclipsed the right wing noise machine in popularity and importance.
You can see above that Daily Kos now reaches more people every day than Free Republic, the original Internet home of mouth-breathing reactionary wackos. Daily Kos crossed into the top 2000 highest ranking sites according to Alexa, around the same time that Free Republic fell out of that group.
How is Daily Kos doing versus the wider conspiracy? If I had to think of some words to describe what Markos is doing to RedState, Powerline, and LGF, these would come to mind: bury, annihilate, torch.
What about Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the oxycontin-popping AM radio wingnuts? Since April, Daily Kos has exceeded even NewsMax in readership.
Daily Kos is even more influential than some large regional newspapers' web sites, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Dallas Morning News.
You want to talk about coattails? Check out the roaring success of TPM, Think Progress, and DU, and look at the incredible success of firedoglake!
Yes kids, it's our very own left wing noise machine. Americans are hungry for the truth, hungry for solutions to good government, and hungry to have an open and honest dialog without the intrusion of the mainstream press. You - we - are giving them what they want.
Congratulations.