Okay this is pretty heinous even for DailyKos

[LittleClarkie]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/16/0164/3330

Have at Mr. "Nope" for me, if you would.

Riding their coattails!? Give me a fucking break!!

On edit: here, for those who don't go over there. What would you make of this.

My answer was that this was my diary and I would do with it what I damn well pleased.

Treated Kos like garbage? How?

And what about how Kos treats Kerry now?

It's all so bizarre and petty.

"nope (none / 0)

not at all, in fact i pushed for John Kerry to call for a massive tropp reduction during his campaign.

I am upset with this flood of Kerry Fans coming on and using DailyKOS and MyDD as their promotional tool. Especially when the Kerry Campaign treated KOS like a leper during the election cycle.

There are plenty of other tools available. You can actually call your elected official's office and register your opinion about any number of topics.

You don't have to go to johnkerry.com to do it.

JohnKerry.com was a complete waste of space for 12 months and now they want to kick it into action again? Fine go ahead...but do it on your own. Build up your own sites...your own blogs and do the promotion. Don't ride the coattails of KOS Armando or Chris."

[_dynamicdems]

1. What a bunch of crybabies!

These people aren't worth wasting time with. Most people fall into two categories: those who do and those who piss and moan. Pathetic little whiners. Apparently Kos is a leper and we should treat him as such.

[LittleClarkie]

2. I will still go over there, but I need to ignore asshats like that

There are about a dozen or so folks who still like him over there, and so I post. I got 18 tips last time. :)

[_dynamicdems]

3. Bring them over here!

The Kerry supporters, not the er, assholes.

[LittleClarkie]

4. A couple of them did actually

I was quite please to see Leftmench and NoisyDemocrat come on over.

[jenndar]

5. Oh my GOD.

Did this guy actually just try to prop up his candidate by threatening to harass Kerry supporters on the internet?

LOL. Unbelievable.

[LittleClarkie]

7. Hey girl! Thanks for the support over there

What a FREAK, huh?

I wonder who his candidate is.

[jenndar]

8. Any time! These signs are a great idea.

"At least Edwards understood that this thing was about the working poor in America."

What thing? Does dude not understand that the working poor are fighting the war that's the subject of this whole signage campaign? Good God. Show some freaking teamwork.

[LittleClarkie]

11. Hey, I think I got him to calm down though

after I screamed at him, that is. He's being nice to me now. Wonder of wonders.

Hairy cat fits are good for something apparently.

[WildEyedLiberal]

6. Sociopaths typically display an inflated sense of self-importance

Talk about delusions of grandeur. Dean rode Kos's coattails, and look how far it got him. Oh yeah, I forgot Kos was solely responsible for making Dean DNC chair. :eyes: Him and all the other people who hoped sticking him there would get him out of the way and make him learn, you know, diplomacy.

[LittleClarkie]

9. I wonder what he was talking about re:Kerry campaign

treating Kos like a leper.

What the hell is that supposed to mean? What were they supposed to do, genuflect? Kos treats Kerry like shit. That's all I've ever seen.

But I would be curious to find out what this shmuck is talking about.

[jenndar]

10. Kos wasn't on Kerry's payroll?

God, Kerry's a jerk. I'm going to go over to dKos now and talk about how his honor is ruining this country and, more importantly, my life. ;)

[WildEyedLiberal]

12. Kerry's website dropped its link to DKos

After Kos made a horribly insensitive diary implying that those four guys who got killed and burned and strung up in Fallujah "got what they deserved." Kerry did the right thing by dissociating himself from Kos. Kos never got over the snub, apparently. :nopity: Maybe he shouldn't be such a callous asshole then.

[LittleClarkie]

13. Interesting. I did not know that. Do you mean Kos was better

towards Kerry before that?

What an immature assclown.

[WildEyedLiberal]

14. I doubt he was better before that

Before that was the primary season, and we all know who he whored for.

[Dr Ron]

20. Kos was not better

His site was heavily pro-Dean and anti-Kerry during the primaries. He posted a disclaimer that he was doing consulting work for the Dean campaign, but later it came out that the Dean campaign was paying him inflated fees, far beyond standard for his technical consulting services, in order to buy favorable publicity.

During the primary battles the official blog had a link to Kos due to being a major Democratic site despite all the Kerry-bashing there.

Kos did back Kerry during the general election campaign, but I guess he is just a flip flopper as he started bashing Kerry afterwards.

Besides bashing for the common reasons used by the Kerry-bashers, Kos has even been attacking Kerry for things which you would think he would support him for. For example, when the Boston Globe had an article on Kerry for attacking the Republicans in control of Congress, a Globe write referred to Kerry as an outsider. Kos then attacked Kerry, falsely claiming that Kerry was calling himself an outsider. We saw this week how Kos attacked Kerry for criticizing the war, falsely claiming that Kerry himself was claiming to be leader of the anti-war movement. He also repeated the usual nonsense claims of Kerry being for the war, and brought up the Grand Canyon question but edited Kerry's reply to make it sound worse.

[karynnj]

15. Ignoring basic morality, how could he not see the political ramifications

of having something like that (or future similar idiocies). I doubt whoever removed the link even had to ask Kerry. Kos doesn't even seem human here.

[ray of light]

16. Kerry's site didn't link to any other blog specifically

They allowed posters to link to misc. sites but they also had to dissociate from most sites because freepers would use those against kerry!

I call it smart! It's difficult enough to know you're allowing people free speech on your own blog, but to then be held accountable for every other blog out there and their posters too is just ridiculous!

[Dr Ron]

19. There were links earlier

They eliminated all of them towards the end with one of the revisions, but initially they had a large number of links to Democratic sites. Kos was specifically removed for his "screw them" comment about the four killed Americans while the official blog still had external blog links.

[ray of light]

21. True...at the end his site was getting so many 'hits' per day

that they had to make sure they wouldn't get in trouble for current links.

[Dr Ron]

17. That's probably much of the problem

Kos also said "screw them" about the four who were killed.

Realistically Kerry himself probably didn't even know about this or have anything to do with it. Most likely it was Dick's call to drop the link.

Incidentally, I had urged Dick to drop the link to Kos months earlier due to the large amount of anti-Kerry material there but he thought it should remain due to the prominence of the site.

[Dr Ron]

18. Personally I stay away from there

I figure that the KosKlassKlowns minds made up and are not going to be convinced by the facts. In their minds Kerry supported the war, failed to speak out against Bush, and conceded prematurely. Nothing's going to convince them otherwise as they ignore all the data which contradicts these ideas.

However, there certainly may be benefit to periocially posting the truth over there as there may be new people who haven't been turned into total Kos Dittoheads yet.

I bet that, as much as he dislikes Kerry, Kos also likes the traffic to his site from the controversy and would not object to Kerry supporters continuing to post there. Of course that's just my guess and I certainly cannot speak for him.

As for MyDD, Jerome is almost as bad as Kos but others there aren't as bad. Still, I tend to ignore both MyDD and Kos unless something from them pops up in my RSS reader which catches my attention. I keep both sites in my RSS reader to monitor, but they are not sites I actually go to very often anymore.