MyDD :: OMG! Kos states "Bloggers sometimes die". But he has life insurance.

OMG! Kos states "Bloggers sometimes die". But he has life insurance.

by ChitownDenny, Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:37:38 PM EST

As an individual who wishes no living creature ill will, I am wise enough to accept that people are born, they live, they die. And some may have insurance to prtoect loved ones against the unforseen. But I find it curious Markos Moulitas feels it necessary to state the obvious. And I find it curious that he doesn't "give a damn" about the "whiny posters" striking his site.

As a loyal Democrat, voting straight Dem ticket (Who's that on this ballot? Oh well, he's/she's a Dem; YES!), I have been disheartened (to put it mildly) by the tone of several lefty bloggers. I have been disheartened to see bloggers purporting to support Democratic Party ideals, demeaning other Democrats and their supporters. And while I'm new to this whole blogosphere phenom, and find most of it fascinating, I have no patience for Dem on Dem fighting of the likes I've witnessed at DailyKos.

So, by whatever metric you judge your blog, and for whatever reason you feel it necessary to state the obvious (whether it be about your mortality or that of your blog), I only say, "RIP DailyKos".

My Bias: GO HILLARY!

Tags: Hillary, Clinton, bloggers (all tags)

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Re: OMG! Kos states " (2.00 / 0)

WTF is Kos talking about? Bloggers sometimes die?

Even John McCain lusts after teh engels.

by sricki on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:46:01 PM EST

Re: OMG! Kos states " (2.00 / 7)

2 bloggers died of heart failure recently and now some press is spazzing out about the dangers of blogging.

Kos was just pointing out how silly this was.

by grass on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:48:16 PM EST
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they're so rabid and angry (2.00 / 1)

and foam at the mouth more than Limbaugh when they hear about the Clintons that it was inevitable that they may pay the price. I guess you could say they are true anti-Clinton martyrs.

"there is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right in America"-William Jefferson Clinton, forty-second President of the United States

by DiamondJay on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:25:59 PM EST
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Re: they're so rabid and angry (none / 0)

actually one was a technology blogger, can't remember what the other did but it wasn't politics.

Some people couldn't give a toss who the next prez is.

by grass on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 06:31:22 AM EST
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He was referring to a NYTimes article. (2.00 / 8)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/techno logy/06sweat.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1& amp;sq=blogger&st=nyt&scp=1

But, of course, this diarist left out every scrap of context.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were no rhetorical questions?

by Elsinora on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:48:32 PM EST
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Re: He was referring to a NYTimes article. (2.00 / 5)

what! context here? perish the thought! you should be ashamed calling for people to post things in context here at MyDD.

Obama said, as Bill beamed. "Thank you, President Clinton."

by TruthMatters on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:51:50 PM EST
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Re: He was referring to a NYTimes article. (2.00 / 9)

perish ... you should

Context? Who cares about context when you're saying you want me to perish! You're sick! Sick, I tell you!

by Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:57:21 PM EST
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Re: He was referring to a NYTimes article. (2.00 / 6)

Ha ha ha. That sounds like a deranged Yoda.

by rfahey22 on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:59:48 PM EST
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Re: He was referring to a NYTimes article. (none / 0)

Ah, okay. I hadn't read the article, and I thought the diarist posted this because Kos had been getting death threats, or something.

Even John McCain lusts after teh engels.

by sricki on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:04:00 PM EST
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Re: (2.00 / 3)

I don't get it, exactly why now are you attacking Kos? did you even read the point of that blog or just the title and then run over here to make this?

Obama said, as Bill beamed. "Thank you, President Clinton."

by TruthMatters on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:46:10 PM EST

Nobody's striking against DKos. (1.83 / 6)

It's a boycott, not a strike, and I really wish people would stop calling it what it's not. Calling this a "strike" is insulting to anyone who has actually walked a picket line, wondering how they can afford to feed their families if negotiations don't conclude soon and they can't go back to work...if they're even allowed to go back to work.

The stakes of the much-vaunted but ultimately petty "DKos strike" are nowhere near the level of a real strike. It's a boycott, folks.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were no rhetorical questions?

by Elsinora on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:46:20 PM EST

Re: Nobody's striking against DKos. (1.00 / 1)

With the exception of my comment in the last sentence of my post, all items in quotation come directly for Kos' post. If you disagree with the term strike, please let Kos know.
BTW, very funny, "Why are....for forty years!"

Purity! Or else!

by ChitownDenny on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:52:39 PM EST
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Re: Nobody's striking against DKos. (2.00 / 4)

If you"have no patience for Dem on Dem fighting of the likes I've witnessed at DailyKos", then why are you trying to start a fight here? Alas I fear you are a Troll.

by lion king on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:53:24 PM EST
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Re: Nobody's striking against DKos. (none / 0)

LMFAO

by johnnygunn on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:23:13 PM EST
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Strike isn't in quotations. (2.00 / 4)

Incidentally, it is the term coined by the so-called "strikers" to refer to themselves, and thus everybody else also refers to them that way for the sake of clarity. I know they're on this site, so I'm asking them to stop mislabeling themselves. Calling themselves "strikers" is a sad display of self-aggrandizement.

They are to strikers what Marie Antoinette was to shepherdesses.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were no rhetorical questions?

by Elsinora on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:00:29 PM EST
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Re: Nobody's striking against DKos. (none / 0)

Kos controls the English language now? He truly is all-powerful!

Seriously, this ain't a "strike." No one should flatter themselves into thinking that.

by rfahey22 on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 10:34:51 PM EST
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Writing content for the site is working (2.00 / 3)

you get paid in eyeballs, your content contributes to dailykos bottom line.

It's a strike.

by catfish1 on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 08:18:15 PM EST
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Click throughs are a contribution (none / 0)

hence the term boycott. Albeit a spectacularly silly boycott.

by DSloth on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 08:49:35 PM EST
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What DSloth said. (none / 0)

If you knew anything about going on strike, catfish, you would realize how silly you sound.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were no rhetorical questions?

by Elsinora on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 10:30:57 PM EST
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you do not want to see dem on dem (2.00 / 2)

fighting?

Then what are you doing on MyDD where Obama supporting Dems get constantly attacked by Hillary supporting dems.

-- be excellent to each other

by kindthoughts on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 06:57:59 PM EST

I'm confused. (2.00 / 1)

I've read this twice and I'm still not sure that I understand this diary. I'm left with more of a "WTF?" instead of an "OMG!" in regards to the diary title. I must be missing something.

And so, may evil beware and may good dress warmly and eat lots of fresh vegetables.

by thatpurplestuff on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:13:34 PM EST

Re: I'm confused. (2.00 / 0)

Dem on Dem fighting on Kos
Kos traffic heading south
Kos doesn't stress this
the mortality of bloggers as refrenced in NYT by Kos used in my diary as symbolic to his site

Purity! Or else!

by ChitownDenny on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:28:18 PM EST
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Re: I'm confused. (2.00 / 1)

you could have just left that at you are confused...

McCain/Palin... even scarier than Bush/Cheney... and that's saying something!

by JenKinFLA on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:41:59 PM EST
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Re: I'm confused. (none / 0)

Huh?

Purity! Or else!

by ChitownDenny on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:48:48 PM EST
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Kos not interested in dems. (2.00 / 1)

I don't know why anyone thinks that Kos is interested in democrats winning. His sole purpose is selling his books......

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson

by pollbuster on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:15:04 PM EST

What a jerk (2.00 / 1)

Two died of heart failure. And that's how he titles his post? How old is this guy?

by catfish1 on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 08:21:22 PM EST

Umm . . . (none / 0)

I don't really care what Kos has to say (but I do respect his Army service, Hooah!).

However, I agree that Kos isn't the right fit for me either. I will go there time to time, but I am too moderate for their tastes.

We will all kumbaya after the convention, and both sites will put McSame in the cross-hairs. The trolls will be smoked out!!

NO 100 year WAR, NO McConnell run Senate, & NO GOP-led Supreme Court!!!

by Veteran75 on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 09:08:10 PM EST

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