I'm new to commenting on the Daily Kos and I'm not used to all aspects of it yet.
I'm not sure why it has taken me so long to come here. I've always been a fan of Markos Maoulitsas. By contrast I know why I haven't tried Mother Jones. David Korn is probably the worst fake liberal I can think of. I don't know if he does it intentionally or by accident but so much of what he says downplays how bad Republicans are. I didn't read his Hubris book, and I don't care to. But the MSNBC documentary version of it might have just as well been written by Dick Cheney. According to the documentary, Curveball was a chemical engineer, instead of an an unemployed drunken taxi driver who Germany told us is a liar. There was nothing about extorting the false aluminum tube intelligence. It was just a mistake. There were no details about how badly forged the yellow cake uranium documents were. Nothing about surrounding Osama bin Laden on three sides at Tora Bora. The documentary just said he escaped. No mention of Bush warning the U.N. inspectors to leave. The documentary just gave the misleading explanation that the U.N. pulled them out. The last time I saw him he was praising the Democrats for working with Republicans on the Iran/Contra and 9/11 Commission investigations. My belief is if the true extent of Iran/Contra hadn't been covered up, 9/11 wouldn't have even happened. To me, David Corn is about as complicit in cover ups as anyone. And it is especially offensive that he pretends to be exposing the things he only tells you half of the story about.
So far my impression of the Daily Kos commenting system is that at least one purpose of diaries is let you start a conversation about any topic you choose. That is a great function to have. And the comment function is used to comment on a particular article or dairy. And of course, reply is used to reply to a specific comment. If anyone has any clarifications, corrections, or additional insights, I'll be glad to hear them. But if I am wrong about dairies, I really don't want to know. I like my concept of them.
As I mentioned in my last dairy, it got so very few of my comments were allowed on the Huffington Post. So far, I've been allowed to write everything I've wanted here. Media Matters has allowed everything I've written there, but they don't have a diary function as far as I know, so very few subjects are on topic. I only remember trying to comment on the consortiumnews website once. They deleted my comment and threatened to block me. My comment wasn't offensive, it just wasn't the same as their opinion. A long time ago I used to comment on the newshounds website. Then one day, they published parts of a comment and used the parts they didn't publish to write their own article. I think editing people's comments like that is the worst. The websites have the write to allow or censor whatever they want, and of course us users have the right to patronize what we want. A newspaper changed what I had written quite a bit once. But their motivation didn't seem to be to change or censor the most important points I made. I didn't mind that, but for the most part I'd rather have all of something published or none of it.