News from the Mullah-loving nutroots world
The founder and chief moonbat of the "people-powered" New New Left (same America-hating fifth-column wannabe Stalins as the Old New Left, and for that matter as the Old Left - just with some mad HTML skillz) has been coming in for some criticism lately. Why, some of his comrades have even called him a "fascist."
Meanwhile, over at DailyKotz, Don Markos himself writes:
The netroots conspiracy
by kos
Tue Jun 27, 2006 at 02:50:11 PM PDTIt all started quietly enough, with Jerome deciding to stick with the consulting biz and work for his favorite candidate in the race, Mark Warner. But the relationship was blown wide open in Vegas as Warner made a huge splash. People tried to imply all sorts of quid pro quos between me and Jerome and the Warner operation, but they were missing the real conspiracy all along.
Because under the radar, things have been moving nicely according to plan.
Bill Richardson hired great-guy Joaquin Guerra, an old friend, and made a last-minute decision to hit YearlyKos. That earned my praise.
Wes Clark hit YearlyKos too and has been an avid netroots denizen the past couple of years. I have had corresponded on and off with Wes Jr. over the past few years, and greatly respect the whole Clark family. Cue the praise.
John Edwards rolled out a community scoop site built by Rusty (an old friend, business partner of mine and Jerome who literally built Scoop) and does podcastings that MoveOn's Zack Exley, another friend, loves. Not to mention, Elizabeth Edwards is rumored to be a heavy participant on this site under a pseudonym. And one of my best friends inside the union movement is a HUGE Edwards backer. Praise.
Hillary Clinton hired two friends of mine, bloggers Jesse Berney (formerly of the DNC blog) and Peter Daou (formerly of the Kerry campaign and the Daou Report on Salon). Praise?
Evan Bayh has Chris Smith who I met during the book tour and seemed like a really cool guy. And his operation is aggressively blogging and wooing bloggers.
And suddenly, foot soldiers in the people-powered movement have infiltrated most of the top campaigns, exposing our real goal to all.
It's not to try and win my "endorsement". As I've said before, you are all thinking people and can make up your own minds on who to vote for. You don't need me to tell you. And you wouldn't let me (which is what's so cool about this joint).
The reality is that we have conspired to have people [read: friends of me! me me me me me!] help power the process to pick the next president.
Imagine that.
Yes, imagine that, Kossie. Friends of yours get hired, and you roll on the praise wagon. You get to talk with Wes Clark's son, and oingo boingo, his dad gets a lovely little endorsement. Politicians' wives comment on your blog under pseudonyms, and you're just tickled silly! You meet other bloggers who blog blogs and mention you, and you fairly piss yourself with admiration. What cool, cool people they all are. And you know them! People! All power to the...Kos People!
In case you failed to notice, it's all just the same old, same old politico circle-jerk. Only you're in the middle. Which makes you...
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Important thing is you know and approve of these people. Unlike all those non-people who might be out there working and voting for - shudder - Republican candidates.
The joke about the Kossack Left and all the other tools is that it really doesn't matter, because they'll all shut up and vote for whichever candidate gets the nomination. Because he or Hillary will not be Republican. And that, when push comes to shove, is all that counts.
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