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Liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas ("Daily Kos") appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources this morning (Sunday, June 18, 2006). Host Howard Kurtz asked Kos about a comment he made on his blog a couple of years back. In April 2004, in a thread about the coverage of the brutal murders of four Americans in Fallujah, Kos posted a comment in which he wrote (bold mine), "I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for...

CELEBRATED LIB STRATEGIST HAS SHADY MARKET PAST Jerome Armstrong, the political strategist who followed a famous Internet fundraising effort for Howard Dean in 2004 with a book on "people-powered politics," has a sordid past as a shill for a worthless dot-com stock. Armstrong, 42, touted a dubious Chinese software company, BluePoint, beginning in 1999, without disclosing that he accepted "below-market" shares in exchange for the glowing reports he posted on a site called Raging Bull, according to a 2003 civil suit that named him as a defendant. "Armstrong posted over 80 times on the BluePoint message board located on the...

Last week’s YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas, the first ever gathering of devotees of the popular liberal website Daily Kos, featured an unending series of panel discussions. You want to build a progressive majority? There were people there to talk about it.You want to talk back to talk radio? You’d have plenty of help.You want to reform the electoral system? No problem.But there was one panel discussion that attracted more attention, and more people, and more enthusiasm, than just about any other. The simply titled “CIA Leak Investigation Panel” featured a who’s who of critics of the Bush administration and...

The left has found its newest sex symbol. His name is Markos Moulitsas, and he's the founder of the eponymous Daily Kos, a popular radical liberal blog garnering thousands of visitors each day. The lonely Blanche DuBois of The New York Times editorial page, Maureen Dowd, describes Moulitsas as the "fast-talking former Army artillery scout with the boyish demeanor and dark brown buggy eyes," and calls him an "Internet messiah." Ana Marie Cox, the Internet potty-mouth turned Time magazine reporter, breathes shallowly and does her lipstick: "Compact and wiry, Moulitsas, 34, exudes quivering intensity. He speaks in staccato paragraphs, punctuated...

Nasty, condescending, pompous, self-absorbed, jerks who are obsessed with beating conservatives but can do nothing but lose.

Dan Balz's outlook on life may be too sunny and stable to regularly read Markos Moulitsas's Daily Kos. That would explain why Balz fails to describe the far-left venom that powers the Kossacks in his account of their Las Vegas conference, Bloggers' Convention Draws Democrats. If Balz had provided some excerpts from Moulitsas's website, it would help explain why every one of the 20-odd candidates they've backed for national office office has lost. But he doesn't mention that either. In short, we learn about concern by people like Moulitsas that the Daily Kos and its netroots activists are unfairly being...

Las Vegas—The YearlyKos convention ended here Sunday in a blaze of publicity. The nation’s top political reporters came to the Riviera Hotel to get a first-hand look at supporters of DailyKos, the nation’s most popular liberal website, and they didn’t leave before writing thousands of words about it all.But much of that coverage, especially in the largest papers with the broadest readerships, involved simple explanations of what DailyKos is, who is involved with it, and why Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Senator Barbara Boxer, and presidential candidate Mark Warner traveled to Las Vegas to...

From the terrorist lovers at the UK's Guardian [excerpted]: Top politicians pay homage to king of bloggersPresidential hopefuls woo Las Vegas conventionPaul HarrisSunday June 11, 2006For many, they are the nerds of US politics: laptop warriors, with brains full of statistics, no social life and devoting too much time to arcane policy details.But last week the political blogger - someone who runs an online journal - emerged into the mainstream and shed the stereotype in the glare and glitz of a Las Vegas casino. At their helm was former soldier Markos Moulitsas. At the age of 34, Moulitsas has progressed...

Las Vegas -- While leading Democratic politicians have embraced the digital age of politics by kissing up to the 1,000 Internet-savvy bloggers convening here at the first YearlyKos convention this weekend, everybody is still trying to figure out how exactly to behave in a 21st century political courtship. It is a question provoking much discussion among the digiterati at the first major convention inspired by a political blog, Daily Kos, which is run by Berkeley resident Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Many of those who identify themselves as "net- roots" activists started blogging over the past few years out of the frustration...