Armando, Armando, Armando.
Don't we all feel just a little bit like John Kerry did when all anyone wanted to talk about was Howard Dean? Here there are people all over Daily Kos trying to antogonize other Kosmopolitans, but the only one who seems to warrant his own daily bitchfest diaries is Armando.
I've recently had my "call out" diary posted, in which somebody complained that he didn't get me. And plenty of people express their irritation with me in threads, sometimes when it has nothing to do with anything. So I don't feel slighted in the negative attention category. And Page has gotten her share of abuse. Hunter has the wingers hating him...something about typewriters. DavidNYC is in law school, so soon enough he'll be hated by profession. And Trapper John is already an attorney, so he's been admitted professional fraternity of one of the most despised profession in America. So the batch of current and just recently departed frontpagers has received their share of bile, juvenile petulence, paranoia and displaced anger that should be directed at one's parents for ruining their life.
But can't we get some anger for two neglected former guest bloggers? C'mon Kosmopolitans, can't you give up a little spite for Meteor Blades and DemFromCT?
We all know how most of the rest of us have ruined somebody's life, single-handedly poisoned the atmosphere of Daily Kos, killed Daily Kos (when it wasn't dying from the new site design, or Pie, or shut your pie hole, or...wait until tomorrow for the next installment of the blogosphere's most visited melodrama). But why can't DemFromCT and Meteor Blades occassionally get blamed for ruining something?
Think about it. Meteor Blades was a journalist, and he was thrown in jail. He's claimed loyalty to another nation. And he regularly criticizes people for shoddy argumentation and poor presentation of facts...like I did in the second and third sentences of this paragraph. What more do you need to be able to blame him for ruining something?
And DemFromCT? What's that guy's story? He doesn't let us in to his personal life, he doesn't tell people his social security number or his exact place of employement. And he hides behind that cyber-facade of calm fairmindedness. He's obviously got something to hide, so he's clearly getting paid by somebody to subvert Daily Kos. Sure, he's been accused of it several times. But why can't he get his own "DemFromCT is a poopypants" diary?
These guys have spent countless hours at Daily Kos, commenting, writing frontpage posts (in the case of MB, including many before Scoop, when there weren't even such as thing as DKos diaries). They've posted thousands, probably over ten thousand comments. Surely they've ruined somebody's life, poisoned Daily Kos, or tainted the blog experience of someone.
Since nobody has written a "Meteor Blades is a GOP Shil" diary, let this be the first. And this is also the "DemFromCT is a fascist" diary. And because they are both so reasonable, informed, insightful and good-humored, they should be kicked off Daily Kos.
Please share your complaints about Meteor Blades and DemFromCT below.