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Hillary Clinton Told YearlyKos Convention She Helped Start Media Matters As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the leftwing organization responsible for the recent smear campaigns against Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters, has direct ties to the Clintons. To be sure, folks on the left, and in the media that support them, will either deny this connection, or ignore it.In the end, that's going to be hard to do, for on August 4, while speaking at the YearlyKos convention in Chicago, the junior senator from New York proudly stated, "institutions that I helped to start and support like Media Matters and...

269 reply's, most bashing America and the Administration, and not a SINGLE LINK to a Reliable FACT that backs up these numbers... Welcome to the world of LEFTIST PROPOGANDA MEANWHILE, the documented and PROVABLE deaths are: Documented civilian deaths from violence 73,713 – 80,333 http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/ Can someone explain to me why fallacies like this are allowed, and even REINFORCED by so many on the left? A Couple of KOS'rs attemted to procvide the FACTS, but were largely ignored..... The postings on this do provide a glimpse into the insane lunatics that have taken control of the Democratic Party.

Tonight at Daily Kos, the new mainstream voice of the Democratic Party, they’ve found a new angle from which to attack General Petraeus: Hey, MoveOn! Petraeus Wore Fraud Medal At Testimony.Examining General Petraeus’s medals, his official bios and then comparing three reports of events on 3/30/2003 in Najaf, Iraq - two by prize-winning embedded journalists and one understood to be by Army personnel (which document this diarist will produce to a responsible party at any time) - this diarist cannot conclude other than that General David Petraeus wore a medal for combat valor in his testimony before Congress that was...

In a special session at the YearlyKos convention, Hillary Clinton praised left-wing bloggers and promised she would provide universal internet access, full benefits for same-sex couples and pre-kindergarten that caters to children who don’t speak English if elected President. She began by telling bloggers a secret: “Don’t tell anybody, but I actually read blogs.” “Don’t share that,” she warned. “And, I find myself, you know, sometimes saying, ‘Oh, c’mon’ and sometimes saying ‘Oh, you know that’s a really good point’ and trying to figure out how to work that into an argument I am making or legislation I am drafting.”

Kos Kid: Kill Me Now Here’s another open thread, with a gratuitous link to yet another jaw-droppingly whacked out Kos Kid diary: Daily Kos: I would rather die in a terrorist attack. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/6/112523/3173 This one would rather die in a terrorist attack than see Valerie Plame outed. Yes, really. (Hat tip: Killgore.)

In one of the better “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoon strips penned by Bill Watterson, Calvin wonders where people go when they die, to which his companion replies “Pittsburgh”. After a pause, Calvin asks if that’s for being good or for being bad. Having been born in Pittsburgh, that joke works on a number of levels for me, and particularly now as the infamous YearlyKos event looms. The annual convention of liberal political bloggers, called “netroots” by supporters and “nutroots” by critics, is in Chicago and not Pittsburgh – at the very least begging superficial comparison to another convention there in...

The first Daily Kos diary on the subject of the Soltz Shoutdown has disappeared from their site. Gone missing, along with more than 50 comments. Here’s where it used to be: Daily Kos: What happened to this soldier?!?!? Another diary post has now turned up to discuss this incident, from another Kos Kid whose cognitive dissonance reached critical mass, and this time I grabbed a screenshot. You know, just in case there’s another glitch in their software.

It took them a couple of days to get the spin together, but we now have an official position on the incident at the ‘Military and Progressives’ panel at YearlyKos, from an employee of VoteVets, whose founder shouted down and threatened that soldier. With obligatory “chickenhawk” slurs—the logically empty argument they never seem to get tired of. The conservative bloggers who’ve tried to make Jon look bad over this—like Michelle Malkin, Matt Drudge, and others—have no concept of this. Just like they have no concept of war in general. None of them has ever served the country in any meaningful...

His name is David Aguina and he’s an Army reservist. His UCMJ claims against Soltz seem thin to me — Article 88 prohibits “contemptuous words” directed at the president, not criticism, and Article 91 seems to apply only to lower-ranking soldiers and only when on duty — but it’s hard not to be moved by his story about his experience with Iraqis. Meanwhile, via LGF, one of the yKos panelists parries right-wing criticism of the incident with some clever stammering about chickenhawks. Unmentioned in his post: Glenn Greenwald, Atrios, Max Blumenthal, Ken Layne, and the countless millions of other...

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (AKA Kos) has a reputation as an ideologue and a bomb-thrower. I wish this were true, since he succeeds in helping Democrats win elections. He also raises enough money and attracts enough attention to keep liberal memes afloat, even when they lose. Alas, this isn’t the case. Kos is far worse. He’s a power-monger with no ideas. Kos openly admits this. He once said he was not trying to be the next Jesse Jackson. What he meant was that he was a political tactician, rather than a movement philosopher. He describes himself as being all about winning....