Today, Breitbart gets what's coming to him...
An apology.
But first, allow me to introduce myself. I am the new Ambassador from Daily Kos and the online progressive community (the "netroots" if you will) to our friends at Redstate and the conservative blogosphere. I was elected via secret ballot by you, some of the most promient voices in the online progressive community. Not all of you were invited to vote (vote was by exclusive invitation only), but for those prestigious bloggers that did vote for me among many other worthy candidates, I thank you. I can only say I hope to honor you by representing our "values" to the conservative community well. Those who know who I am know I'm also a popular diarist on this site, but I won't be revealing exactly who I am. At least not yet, as I hope to keep my diplomatic duties separate from my blogging activities here. I will still continue to diary under my normal user name (a rec list regular, thanks much), but will not be disclosing what it is. Yet.
Now, on to my (sad) first duty as your official representative: Andrew Breitbart, on behalf of Daily Kos and the progressive online community, we join with Representative Anthony Weiner in saying: WE APOLOGIZE.
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EMBASSY OF THE BLUE STATE AMBASSADOR
THE DAILY KOS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
BREAKING: DAILY KOS DIARISTS, USERS APOLOGIZE TO ANDREW BREITBART
We were WRONG.
Specifically, the diarists, front-pagers and users of Daily Kos were WRONG.
The endless diaries with authoritative statements and definitive "proof" about yfrog accounts, Twitter hacks, upside down photos and "Christian" disinformation groups...WRONG.
The accusation that Breitbart orchestrated a fake smear on Weiner....WRONG
Moronic conspiracy theories that the right wing manufactured this whole thing to divert attention from Clarence Thomas....WRONG
Idiotic diaries about CNN conspiracies to smear Weiner...WRONG.
Front Pagers....WRONG
Long Time Diarists...WRONG
Trusted Users...WRONG
WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.
And the scorecard at the end of this included spreading false information and the names of underage girls because some were too stupid or arrogant to bother to check their facts.
We embarrassed ourselves by defending this man for no other reason than we liked his politics and hated his nemesis in this, Andrew Breibart.
There was every indication Weiner was lying on this...Breitbart was demanding an investigation, Weiner was not. Weiner could not deny the photos. He wouldn't call law enforcement. Every bit of common sense screamed Weiner had something to hide, and we, the progressive community at Daily Kos, including some of our most prominent diarists, ignored it.
We were anything but a "reality based" community.
We appeared more ignorant than the tea partiers routinely mocked on these pages. Indeed, there are still people on this site insisting that Weiner was set up.
We ignored FACTS. Why? Because we didn't like them.
Facts, reality and the truth in this case had a very right wing bias.
We HR'd anyone who dared even suggest that Anthony Weiner might have been being less than forthright.
Many thought it wasn't possible for this community to embarrass itself anymore than it did with the John Edwards fiasco. They were WRONG.
If it were up to this community, John Edwards would have been the democratic nominee and President. That speaks volumes about the judgement of this community.
And now, Anthony Weiner.
Daily Kos has become the laughing stock of the political blogging community. We are being mocked and ridiculed around the net. And rightfully so.
Yet our denial continues in another way...the meme shifts from "He absolutely, positively was hacked, and here's the tech proof" to "It's just a private matter, why are the American people so obsessed about such things" Could we possibly look more foolish?
This site, and its members, embarrassed itself and smeared you, Mr. Breitbart.
Again, I speak for all Kossacks when I say we are deeply sorry. You may refer to this diary on your website if you wish as evidence of our contrition.
To all Kossacks, please publish your personal apologies to Mr. Breitbart below. This diary shall be forwarded to all appropriate news outlets once the comment period has completed, so they can see and report first hand what this site is all about.
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Now that this unpleasant business is over, I look forward to serving you, the progressive community, as your Ambassador, though as you can see I have my work cut out for me. We have some atonement to do, and my next diary will focus on what olive branch we can offer to the Republicans to prove we are serious about bi-partisanship.
As always, I thank you for your support.
UPDATE: Thank for you the kind comments. Always nice to be reminded of the class and maturity of your average Kossack. Since I've forwarded this to every major news outlet, they will be able to see what a classy group we have here as well. I'd think considering the events of the past several days a little humility would be in order. I can see some classes in basic manners need to be conducted at The Embassy.
UPDATE 2: Thank you for all the private messages of support. We will be in contact.
UPDATE 3: These personal insults in the comments are inappropriate and really getting out of hand. As the official Representative from Blue State, I speak for all Kosscaks when I apologize to myself.
EYES-ONLY UPDATE (CLASSIFIED): Per my bio, members of the "Right from the Left" team are to post diaries on MWF, and the "Purity" team on T-TH. Trusted users, remember to uprate your team leaders. See Team Site for instructions on donuts. Look to my avatar for the symbols and follow the instructions.