[Update] Augh! Can't keep up with all the wonderful suggestions here. If you have a diary in mind, please provide your own link. Thank you.
Thinking about SusanG's excellent diary, I realized just how much of a cynic I am. There are so many fantastic diaries over on that thread, and they make me glad to be a Kossack. But I find that the diaries that stick with me most are the really, really bad ones. Not the one-paragraph stupid flameout diaries, or the GBCW diaries -- but the ones, often written by important longtime posters, that make us rethink who we are as a community, that make us grow in wisdom and knowledge of each other and of ourselves. And, they're just fun to read and enjoy.
So following SusanG's lead, I want this to be an open thread about the worst diaries at Daily Kos EVER. I'll give three examples on the flip that show the breadth to which this topic could be taken.
#1: The granddaddy of them all,
Shut Your Fucking Pie-Hole.... An awful diary with an awful message, that the community should forcibly censor anyone who disagrees with John Kerry. Proof that horrible things can be said by fantastic people like the incomparable
JeffLieber. Some people still think this is the best post ever to grace dKos, and far be it from me to tell them they're wrong -- but the resulting melee in the comments stretched through other diaries and was a real mess. Remember when 381 comments was a shitstorm on this site?
#2: A Call to Service by Paul Hackett. The diary itself is fine, but then the comments started in, with Hackett calling Sherrod Brown a "typical career politician" on a public website. The Jerome Armstrong got into the fray, and the resultant fracas got really, really nasty. Jerome retired from blogging because of that thread, and Hackett hasn't returned to this site. A must-read.
#3: This one from just yesterday, but it's the nastiest diary I've ever read on Daily Kos. Please support Media Campaign for Duckworth / Cegelis Radio-TV Debate! by Tim the Democrat. The diarist accuses maimed Iraq veteran Tammy Duckworth, a candidate for Congress in Illinois, of being a "meat puppet" who is "using her injuries" for political gain. The venerable Kagro X steps into the comments to defend Duckworth and is promptly assailed by formalist, who first calls him a racist and then, incredibly, propositions Kagro X for sex.
Please add below your own favorite worst diaries EVER.