Cyber Haters - The Rise, Fall and Supporters of DailyKos »
By 186 on Sep 8, 2008 in 2008, Featured, Left, Nutroots, Politics, blogs, democrats, media | 0 Comments

Jay Tea at Wizbang’s excellent post regarding what I see as the borderline criminal actions of the DailyKos.
The Protocols Of The Daily Kos (Wizbang)
If the people who run Daily Kos (and, presumably, make a pretty penny off of it) can’t manage to keep their contributors from acting irresponsibly, then the site is too damned big. They need to find a way to act responsibly, especially in light of the sheer havoc and chaos they have caused by spreading their lies.
Sadly, Barack Obama’s campaign has chosen to follow the Kos model for its own site. Mybarackobama.com carries a disclaimer at the bottom of every page: Content on blogs in My.BarackObama represents the opinions of community members and in no way should be interpreted as endorsed or approved by the campaign.
Summer of 2006: In one fell swoop the DailyKos / Netroots descended on Connecticut in an effort to remove Senator Joe Lieberman who was the Democrat nominee for Vice President just six years earlier. The DailyKos / Netroot plan nearly succeeded in removing Senator Joe Lieberman.
The election was the DailyKos / Netroots first big national test to insert one of their own groomed candidates Ned Lamont. The DailyKos / Netroots skillfully swooped into Connecticut knowing it was a summer primary ready to take advantage of low voter turnout and the Iraq War which was the Media’s favorite headline. Lamont won the primary election but lost in the general election. I believe Lieberman won and maintained his Senate seat because the voters of Connecticut became aware of what was really going in their state and rejected the radical DailyKos / Netroot insurgency that took place and almost succeded while they were on vacation.
The actions of the DailyKos can be boiled down to two basic issues and viewpoints.
- Free Speech
- Slander and Libel
If the Dailykos wanted to exist in some dark corner of the internet as a far left wing venom spewing echo chamber we would be forced into a free speech discussion but that’s not the case.
As you point out so eloquently in your post the DailyKos has been embraced by one of the two major governing parties in our government to the point of summoning the Democrat candidates for President to their convention as well as U.S. Senators like Harry Reid and Dick Durbin. This changes the way this needs to be addressed.
Democrats have to be exposed on the local and national level and held responsible for their ties and to and support of groups like DailyKos.
The DailyKos supporters will troll the internet pulling up handful hateful and ludicrous comments from well know conservative blogs as a “gotchya”, this is a tried and false argument.I defy anyone to find the vile, hateful and slanderous material that is posted daily on the Dailykos on any Conservative blog.
DailyKos has shown premeditated planning, action and intent in their efforts to smear, slander and destroy anyone, including children, outside their “community” who is a threat to their far-left socialist agenda all while being supported by prominent elected politicians in the Democrat party, this moves it from a free speech issue to an accountability and legal issue.
Like any parasite if the host no longer exists than the parasite dies or adapts. The political core of DailyKos are organizations like ActBlue PAC which raises money for democrat and “progressive” candidates the DailyKos / Netroots believe will push their radical agenda at state and national levels. Voters need to be made aware of the radical behavior and agenda of the organization behind these candidates. The netroots own list of candidates they support and fund is a free database that should be tapped as a who’s who of DailyKos political hopefuls.
The DailyKos / Netroots are skilled and do wield some power but I believe that power is much overestimated and like the tech and dot.com bubble which gave rise and fall to so many internet ventures, the DailyKos will meet the same fate once the books are exposed.
The way to hold them accountable is open the DailyKos / Netroot “books” to the voters in every corner of this nation and let the voters see who their Democrat candidates are really funded and propped up by and their agenda.
After witnessing the Dailykos spew an all out assault on the Palin family (which will continue) something has to be done.
The candidates who take funding and support from hateful groups like DailyKos must be held accountable.
To be perfectly blunt, I got better things to do than to clean up the shit the Kossacks spray around so freely. And the shovel I have is nowhere near big enough.
It’d be a lot simpler to just cork it up at the source. Or, at least, try to persuade the Kossacks to potty-train themselves.
But that ain’t about to happen any time soon. They’ve found a working model for success - politically and economically. The only thing I can do is try to shame them, to appeal to their consciences.
But as they’ve made it abundantly clear, they have no shame and no conscience.
So… anyone else want to grab a shovel and join in?
A call to COUNTERACTION indeed!
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