The question (and an answer) hit me this morning.
Why is KOS so engrossing and 'real' while the stooges over at the various media whores are not?
Well, KOS is 'alive'! The media whores are corporate clone drones and they are 'dead'. Do we listen to them? Just to throw razzberries...
How many Kossacks have read the 'Cluetrain Manifesto'?
For those of you who don't know, it is a book. It was an early document about the power of the internet. There is a website and you can read a chapter there.
Here is a quote from the front page of the link:
These markets are conversations. Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking. Whether explaining or complaining, joking or serious, the human voice is unmistakably genuine. It can't be faked.
Bold face mine!
KOS is here in the middle of the 'marketplace of ideas'. We hustle our ideas, argue over facts, point out spin and lies, and we commend those who convince us.
It is 'natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking'!
And most of the electrons around here are whizzing around in support of Dean and Clark or Clark and Dean... why? Because they are on the 'Cluetrain' too. They have comments on their blogs, there are markets over there too. To the extent that they respond to their markets, they move up... While the 'Clueless' keep going down...
Why is the RNC whining? Because they are afraid... Because the MoveOn.org ads were generated so fast and are 'real'. "Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking."
They represent real people who have had enough of 'corrupt corporate governance' in Washington.
They laugh nervously at 'focus groups' or at the growing rumbling coming from the heartland, but in America we can take our country back...
There is more to come on this subject...