Just to be completely clear, I have no problem with Cenk criticising Obama. This is a site for Democrats/lefties to debate the issues of the day. Of course the President's performance will be a matter of debate. But Cenk never debates or contributes. He soapboxes.
Lets take Cenk's most recent contribution. To be blunt, its your standard Cenk diary. A painfully hyperbolic title, plenty of cliches, a fair few rhetoical questions for effect and a very critical towards the President. All thats fine in my book, even if I profoundly disagree with the argument Cenk is proposing. My beef comes toward to the end of the diary. Here Cenk leaves a series of links so people can follow him on Twitter and Facebook. After doing a quick search, it seems to me that Cenk does this in every diary he writes. Can someone please xplain to me how this is not spam? If Cenk wants to advertise himself and his Facebook accounts, fine. Leave them in your profile box. But don't use every single God damn diary you write (which are generally quite repetitive and dull imho) as free advertsing.
I suppose my above criticism isn't the worst crime in the world and I have little doubt a fair few other qite good posters do something quite similair. But Cenk's use of Dkos as his own personal vehicle of self-promotion is not the main reason why I don't think Cenk should be allowed to post diaries here anymore. Its the fact that he NEVER participates. By participation I don't mean posting diaries, Cenk clearly does quite a bit of that. By particiaption I mean having a decent debate on the issues in the comment section. In all of Cenk's diaries here on Dkos , he has seemed either totally unable or unwilling to do this. Until that fact chages, I see no reason nwhy Cenk hould be allowed to use Dkos as free advertsig if he has zero desire to participate.
I conclusion, I would just like to repeat that I don't Cenk should be banned because of the way he writes his diaries or the subject matter he writes them on. In fact, I actually like reading other critics of the President such as Slinkerwink because they will generally participate in a good debate. Unfortunately, Cenk has utterly failed to show the same respect to the other users of Dkos.