Keith Olbermann Apologizes to Daily Kos Readers
On Tuesday, in a report concerning MSNBC's Keith Olbermann publishing his first article at the liberal website Daily Kos, NewsBusters pointed out that the "Countdown" host certainly "knows exactly who his audience is, and exactly what they want." This observation was demonstrably confirmed by Olbermann himself on Friday when in his second posting at DKos, he actually apologized to readers for…
Olbermann Bashes O’Reilly in First Blog Post at Daily Kos
It really was just a matter of time before one of the most hate-filled and vitriolic press members, whose material relies so strongly on reports from Clinton front organizations Media Matters for America and Think Progress, would start posting articles at one of the most hate-filled and vitriolic liberal websites on the Internet. In fact, it's really a perfect fit, dontcha think? As such, when…
ABC's Stephanopoulos Cites Daily Kos During Gingrich Interview
Just how far to the left is ABC's George Stephanopoulos? Well, on Sunday's "This Week," while discussing the presidential campaign with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the former Clinton aide actually cited the liberal website Daily Kos. I guess we now know what George is reading while he's prepping for the show. To set this up, Stephanopoulos and Gingrich were discussing how wide open…
Netroots Equate Religious US Soldiers to Hamas Homicide Bombers
How much do you have to hate your country, Christianity, and the military to actually believe that religious United States soldiers are similar to Hamas homicide bombers?Regardless of the answer, such was the case made by Truthout Senior Editor Jason Leopold Friday, as well as in a recommended diary at the liberal website Daily Kos Sunday.*****Update at end of post: Daily Kos FAQ section cautions…
CBS Discovers New Political Dirty Trick Called Initiative 'Bundling
CBS News has discovered a dire new dirty political tactic. It is called "bundling." No, not the bundling of campaign funds as was performed by Norman Hsu for Hillary Clinton. This new bundling reported by CBS involves allowing ballot petition initiatives to be "bundled" together by signature collectors. CBS has presented the fact that signature collectors in California are collecting signatures…
CNN Cites Omission of Bush’s Name at Debate, Quotes Daily Kos
A report on Thursday’s "The Situation Room" tried to make an issue out of the fact that President Bush’s name was only mentioned a few times at the Republican presidential debate that they organized with YouTube. CNN correspondent Carol Costello compared the President’s name to a curse word in her introduction to the report. "It sure seems like Bush has become a four-letter word you don't want to…
Daily Kos Slams Biased ‘Clinton News Network
It's certainly safe to say that conservatives rarely agree with anything written by liberal bloggers. However, on Saturday, not only was there a prominent posting at Daily Kos entitled "Clinton News Network = CNN," which received 631 comments in only seven hours, but the website's proprietor, the esteemed Markos Moulitsas, wrote an article of his own that was highly critical of Clintonista James…
Juan Williams Slams Markos Moulitsas
Here's something you don't see every day: a well-known liberal journalist slamming the owner of Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas. Yet, that's what happened on Wednesday's "Hannity & Colmes" when NPR's Juan Williams was invited on to discuss the recent hiring of Moulitsas by Newsweek. In a rather stunning turn of events, Williams seemed absolutely disgusted by the announcement (video available…
Karl Rove Joins Newsweek
When Newsweek announced Tuesday that it was hiring Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos to be a contributor during the 2008 presidential campaign, Kos told his readers, "Newsweek is ‘balancing' me out with someone that should make heads on our side explode." As reported by the Washington Post moments ago, Moulitsas was quite prescient: Newsweek has signed the president's former deputy chief of staff […
After Tossing 9/11 Truthers, Maher Makes Amends With Far Left
It appears the good folks at HBO must have been extremely concerned that "Real Time" host Bill Maher was going to lose many of his viewers as a result of his tossing 9/11 truthers from the audience two weeks ago. After all, Maher even admitted at the opening of the discussion segment of Friday's program, albeit almost apologetically, "I'm not going to pretend that we have ideological balance on…
Liberal Netroots: A Bunch of Aging Hippies
This sounds like a job for South Park's Eric Cartman.The vaunted e-elite of the Left, the so-called Netroots, aren't quite what they and the media would have us believe. Far from a mostly middle-class Gen X and Gen Y coalition, blogger Joshua Trevino reminds us the data show Kossacks tend to be rich, areligious, aging hippies forever mentally mired in their glory days of Vietnam protests and…
