The Nutroots Chronicles

P.T. Barnum is alive and well and goes under the name of Markos Moulitsas.

Being the mirror image of Free Republic isn't exactly progress, Kos.

Do you think the Palin pick was a game changer, whether good or bad, and how do you think this will affect the election long-term?

There's no doubt that it was a game changer. All you have to do is go to Daily Kos and see that we haven't written about McCain in a week now, right? It's a singular obsession with Palin. She's the gift that keeps on giving. To me, it seems pretty obvious that McCain wanted [Tom] Ridge or [Joe] Lieberman but he's too weak within his own party to get the candidate he wanted, so he had to go with someone to appease the right wing.

They saw that Obama was going to be able to rally the Clinton supporters with Hillary Clinton's help. They probably saw Obama's speech and saw how incredible and dynamic and how powerful it was and realized that a safe pick wasn't going to give them any hope of victory in November so they had to shake things up. They threw a Hail Mary with Sarah Palin, they didn't vet her, so they had no clue who she was. They saw that she was attractive and very popular in Alaska -- remember, Alaska is actually a swing state. It was in play; Obama was competitive in the polls. So they locked down Alaska. And she's clearly popular with the right and they've embraced her because of her radical right-wing views on the role of religion in government, and it completely, utterly, on that Friday, took Obama off the airwaves.

Well, Kos, does ANYBODY even remember that sorry excuse for a speech? They didn't "vet" her, yet Obama was NEVER VETTED.

It is HILARIOUS to think right-wing Alaska, almost as red a state as Idaho and Utah, was considered to be in "play" for Democrats before Palin was nominated. What absolutely delusional shit is this?

Once Obama goes down in the trash bin of American history, the party will HAVE to purge themselves of people like this who do NOTHING for Democrats at all.

More Palin [Updated]

Instead of apologizing for allowing a hoax to be published on his site and for failing to track down who "ArcXIX" really is, Markos Moulitsas decides to change the subject and point to his bloggers doing the "vetting" of Sarah Palin (of course not Obama):

Moulitsas says he doesn't know who the anonymous ArcXIX is -- his contributors decide whether to identify themselves -- but that his site also disclosed that Palin was once a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which has pushed for a vote on seceding from the United States. That was confirmed Monday by ABC News.

"Our people are doing the vetting. Even if some of it is hitting dead ends, other ones are striking direct hits," Moulitsas says. His role, he adds, "is to sit back and let the citizen journalists do their job, and I amplify the stuff that shakes out."

Not good enough, Markos. You need to publicly apologize for allowing the hoax to be published and track down the offender for TOS violations. If you won't do it, somebody else in the blogosphere with the capability should "out" this individual to see if the person has any connection with either presidential campaign or is just a troll.

Update: Markos finally got around to deleting the offending posts.

Another update: A couple of blog comments to note:

No Quarter

Cannonfire

Blogger Follies

Markos does it again and makes an ass out of himself over Clinton, Obama, and FISA.

He can't even give Clinton credit for voting the "right" way:

Regarding Clinton, I have no doubt she would've voted incorrectly were she the nominee. She's shown over the past few years that on every controversial "national security" bill, she has voted incorrectly, whether it was the Iraq War authorization bill, the Kyl-Lieberman Iran bill, or plenty of war funding bills. It's easy to vote the right way when you don't have advisors telling you to "take issues off the table" by betraying things like, you know, the Constitution.

Anything than to face the fact he got conned by Obama.
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More Campaign Crap.

As the world knows, Kos withheld a $2,300 contribution to the Barack Obama campaign either because Kos doesn't have the money, he's being paid by the Obama campaign and can feign withholding the money as a matter of "principle," he's cynically trying to raise more money for his blog by peddling nonsense about "principle," he's cynically trying to stay in the headlines, or, most unlikely, he actually believes what he is saying.

Only an ignoramus actually is surprised by Obama's actions.

By the way, Kos will still vote for Obama in the general election should he actually be nominated. So much for having principles.
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I Haven't Been

looking at the Olbermann clips for a while, and it appears I didn't miss anything when last night he had on as his guest Markos Moulitsas Zuniga or whatever the hell his name is, also known by his ugly orange blog, Daily Kos, talking about Obama and FISA, as if Kos is any kind of expert on anything:




Funny Olbermann didn't disclose he has blogged over there at the site, perhaps the only place where he is admired anymore.

Since the Yearly Kos

is going on in Chicago, it's appropriate for somebody to look at the person who started it all.