Ok done….

So why pick on the Dems for courting KOS, and ignore the Republicans pandering to the ultra-religious right? That’s just plain hypocritical.

No republican goes to, and endorses, any far right wing hate site at its annual convention.
That’d be like Rudy or Mitt going to have a sit down with the Phelps family?

The truth of the matter is there is no “right” equivalent to the KosKids.
Rightwingsparkle on August 5, 2007 at 11:07 PM

Thats the truth right there.
WHY? The right doesn’t buy into such hate in mass form.

I notice KP/Shillary’s blog is still linked in the sidebar…
LagunaDave on August 6, 2007 at 11:24 AM

Oh, you didn’t really think AP was going to give her up, did you? No, our intrepid blogger will live to love again. . .

Awww..Thanks for the kind words.

DailyKOS is a meaningless pile of rubbish, a kinda of porno site for politically perverted.

I am so stealing that!

Like Germany prior to Hitler didn’t have almost all the exact same protections? And with a website that pulls 1/2 a million page view per day I would suggest that it isnt only in his small, irrelevant fantasy world, it took Hitler a hell of a lot longer to get to where Kos is after only 5 years.

Doctor Zero on August 6, 2007 at 11:26 AM

Well said. The short version is to dip a big brush in the Kos filth and paint the Democratic candidate with it.

On the other hand, religious right figures receive exposure in the MSM far beyond their actual influence. Every foolish statement and misstep is endlessly repeated and referenced until it becomes conventional wisdom. No one on the right, religious or otherwise, could ever achieve the Kos level of influence without dozens of simultaneous hit pieces in major newspapers and cable news programs turning them into a straw boogeyman, and God help them if they ever rented an adult video. Exposure *should* be the price of influence, but the MSM’s greatest remaining power is their ability to charge different rates of exposure to the two sides of the political spectrum, rewarding them with disproportionate levels of influence.

The Kos dumpster dive *could* be made to hurt the Democrats, but the Republicans would have to do it. How long would it take our resourceful hosts at Hot Air to produce a generic Republican campaign video that shows images of the murdered civilian contractors in Iraq, coupled with a screen cap of Markos’ “I feel nothing. Screw them” comment, followed by a shot of Hillary shaking Kos’ hand? How about a cascade of batshit-crazy front page hate rants from Kos followed by a picture of all those smiling Dem candidates at the convention? Couple that with the Republican candidate reading the “screw them” comment at every single debate, then pointing out that his Democrat opponent endorsed that kind of hate rhetoric by attending the convention, and give them an opportunity to denounce Markos as an anti-American lunatic. Checkmate.

To the trolls who wonder why anyone at Hot Air cares about Hillary’s electoral fortunes after YearlyKos: I can only speak for myself, but I happen to think that a healthy democracy requires a vigorous contest between two healthy political parties, and one of them is deeply sick right now. Tolerating, or worse yet endorsing, a cancer like the Troofers or Kos is only going to make it sicker, and its adherents more deranged – how many decent, thoughtful Democrats will be left for Allahpundit to flirt with, when the average Democrat voter realizes Kos is now the “center” of his party? Where is the Buckley of the left, to read these people out of the Democrat movement and make it a healthy competitor in national politics again? I’d really like to have a tough choice to make when Election Day rolls around – it can only make both parties field better candidates, and that’s good for the country.

My heartfelt condolences to you on loss of KP… er, Shillary to the Dark Side, Allah. Maybe one day the two of you can meet in Constantinople…er, Istanbul and reconcile over a glass of New Coke.

doriangrey on August 6, 2007 at 10:46 AM

Fortunately, unlike Hitler, Kos has to deal with a country whose founders split up power into a million pieces so no one man could rule.

Kos is dictator only in his small, irrelevant fantasy world. The rest of us are laughing at him. He’s pathetic.

Someone tell me how the hell I am extreme?

Rightwingsparkle on August 5, 2007 at 11:14 PM

Say, RWS, could you give me a hand over here? I’m going to stick a fork in an unborn baby’s head and then suck its brains out. Also, I’m going to do it all day long on whatever whim provokes the “mother” carrying it. Could you hold the vaccum hose for me?

No?

Oh. You must be one of those Christianist extremists.

I think that’s how this works.

Today democrats and liberals like KP are viewing the koskids in exactly the same light. Watching KP or Sen. Dodd defend the koskids is frighteningly similar to watching Sen. Joesph Kennedy or Charles Lindberg defend the Nazi’s back in 1936.

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga bears more than a simple passing resemblance to Adolph Hitler, both were enlisted military who founded political organizations, who promised to bring about a Utopian society and both of their political organizations had as their foundation a culture of rabid hatred and violence which they attempted to conceal beneath a thin veneer of civilized intelligent behavior.

Furthermore there is little difference between the volume of rabid lunicidal conspiracy theories that fueled Hitlers Nazi party and those that fuel Markos dKos. Kos like the Nazi’s in 1936 asserts themselves to be the true champion of the people defending the freedom of the people while simultaneously depriving the exact same freedoms of anyone who dares to express an opinion that contradicts theirs.

Her noble qualities still shine through, AP!

Although this is a fall from grace, it may be that she’ll see the lack of nobility in equating two un-equatables, change her mind, and return to sounder thinking.

Put it down to panic that the blond candidate is a fractured hope and KP in her state of panic is grasping at straws. To forgive is divine. The other possibility is that it was a blond moment, however.

Let the rapture continue. (Tried to comment using absolutes, relativity, humanistic ideas and religious perspective . How’d I do?)

I don’t know if this Powers shilling for Hillary or just holding her tongue for whatever reason, but it’s sad.
Allahpundit on August 5, 2007 at 10:21 PM

The truth of the matter is there is no “right” equivalent to the KosKids.
Rightwingsparkle on August 5, 2007 at 11:07 PM

AP, she’s just doing her duty speaking up for the left side. What KP said was not egregious; it was a simple call for moral equivalence. Like Dodd saying O’Reilly is like Daily Kos. Moral equivalence is like symmetry for the mind. It requires less thinking and understanding than having to consider two sides independently. When we look at a butterfly we need only to take in the details of one wing, and with symmetry know what the other wing looks like without spending attention on it.

Rightwingsparkle, in a symmetrical world the left is just a mirror image of the right. See how much easier that makes thinking about the world. You use the label “left” which is very handy to think about left and right as moral equivalents.

To the eye symmetry is an element of beauty. To the mind moral equivalence adds beauty to our world understanding and is something we want to believe in.

Anyway I wouldn’t have to agree with KP on everything to enjoy her presence. A little spark (sparkle?) in a relationship just adds interest.

We’ve known the demo party is left of left for a long time. Fortunately, America is right of center.

KOS is like the fringe lefty groups of the 60s—black panthers, sds and that ilk. Flash in the pan.
The small group of pinkos will lose interest and “move on” to something else.