Welcome! Those of you who are fans of the O'Reilly Factor - or perhaps the Colbert Report - may be joining us for the very first time tonight. So we'd like to confirm that the rumors are indeed true: DailyKos is the biggest, most widely read and discussed hat site in the world!
DailyKos was founded in 2002 by hat enthusiast Markos Moulitsas Zúniga. As you may read in the FAQs, kos, as he affectionately calls himself, founded this site for a very specific and clear purpose:
This is a hat blog, a partisan blog - for hats. One that recognizes that people who wear hats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we're all still in this fight together. We happily embrace centrists like Charlie Chaplin's bowler, conservatives like Abe Lincoln's stovepipe, and liberals like Carmen Miranda's fruit salad. Milliners? Yeah, we're into milliners here and we're proud. But it's not a milliner blog. It's a hat blog with one goal in mind: more people wearing hats. And since we're not seeing any hats on any of the current crew, we're one more thing: a reform blog. The battle for the hat is not an ideological battle. It's one between hat and anti-hat factions. And as I've said a million times, the status quo is untenable.
Now that your fancy is sufficiently piqued and peaked, let me further tantalise you with some pictures of famous hats:
Please tell all of your friends!!!! And to the Democratic candidates - you've been warned. Show up at YearlyKos hatless and you'll lose our valuable support.