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The Culture War Option For The Palin Convention

Jay Rosen | Posted 09.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Blogosphere, Liberal Media, John McCain, Culture Wars, Press, Daily Kos, Sarah Palin, Home News
Jay Rosen

McCain's convention gambit is now a culture war strategy. It depends for its execution on conflict with journalists and bloggers and on confusion between and among the press, the blogosphere, and the Democratic party.

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DailyKos Embraces The Palin 'Fake Pregnancy' Rumor But Rejects The Edwards Story

Lee Stranahan | Posted 08.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Markos Moulitsas, Sarah Palin, Rumors, Sarah Palin Vice President, Pregnancy, Bristol Palin, Daily Kos, Fake News, Trig Palin, Sarah Palin Pregnancy, Sarah Palin Fake Pregnancy, Daily Kos Palin, Palin Fake Pregnancy, Daily Kos Palin Pregnancy, Daily Kos Bristol Palin, Media News
Lee Stranahan

Progressive standard bearers such as DailyKos have been showing signs lately of stifling dissenting opinions and promoting crazy rumors usually associated with the right.

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Kos And Alinsky And Election 2008

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Netroots Nation, Al Giordano, Books, Markos Moulitsas, Markos Moulitsas ZúNiga, Hillar Clinton, Saul Alinsky, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Home News
Stephen C. Rose

Kos may be the digital-era Saul Alinsky, as one reviewer put it, taking local activism online. Obama has updated Alinksy as well, synthesizing a national and local approach.

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The Kos And The System: "Blogfather" Markos Moulitsas On Digital-Era Activism And His New Book

Christian Avard | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home

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Christian Avard

"The right understands that working for change is very methodical. It's their ability to subsume the movement into a common whole that's made them very powerful. You don't get that on the left."

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Leaks in McCain's Cone of Silence?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rick Warren and Faith Forum, Nate Silver, John McCain, Rick Sanchez, Cnn, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Mccain Cone of Silence, Cone of Silence, Cone of Silence Mccain, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

The honor system, are you kidding me? I think it is pretty clear at this point McCain did indeed know the questions in advance at the Faith Forum.

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Markos, John, & Elizabeth: How Daily Kos Keeps Swallowing The Kool-Aid

Lee Stranahan | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Liberal Blogosphere, Markous Moulitsas Newsweek, Elizabeth Edwards, Markos Moulitsas, John Edwards, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Rielle Hunter, Media, Media Bias, Daily Kos, Media News
Lee Stranahan

I think I know why I'm still banned. Markos got this story totally wrong and his wrongness set the tone over at Daily Kos for everyone who attacked me and who continue to attack me to this day.

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Elizabeth Edwards: A Conflicted Heroine

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Breaking Politics News, Sex, Political Spouses, Elizabeth Edwards, Daily Kos, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

Elizabeth Edwards will get through this. We have seen her grit and fortitude in the past. What the public will be questioning, when they go deeper than their initial reaction of empathy, will be what role she played in how this crisis was handled.

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Edwards Affair: A Hard Lesson For the Left Half of the Blogosphere

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 08.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Daily Kos, Lee Stranahan, John Edwards, Netroots Nation, Sex, Affair, Media News
Erin Kotecki Vest

The left needed to be ahead of this story, and had the opportunity to be -- but chose instead to get defensive and nasty (another great blogging trait) to those who dare speak about it's possibility.

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Banning Bloggers -- I've Heard Enough Singing From the NetRoots

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Daily Kos, Lee Stranahan, Dnc, Queenofspain, Erin Kotecki Vest, Netroots Nation, John Edwards, Media News
Erin Kotecki Vest

The liberal, "censorship sucks" blog, Daily Kos has banned Lee Stranahan. Now I'm convinced they are extremists who are no better than the Neo-Con fundies.

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The Online War the Democrats Are Losing: Where's the Strategy?

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Web Politics, John McCain, Internet Politics, Political Technology, Internet, Glenn Greenwald, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Emails, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Jane Hamsher, Howie Klein, Jeffrey Porter, Media News
RJ Eskow

The Right's winning the email war, which could prove decisive. It would be ironic if, after all these innovations, Democrats were beaten by a tool that's so crude yet effective.

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Sam Stein

Harold Ford Heckled Over Fox Comment At Netroots Nation

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Daily Kos, Harold Ford at Netroots Nation, Netroots Nation, Harold Ford, Harold Ford Heckled, Markos, Politics News

Former congressman Harold Ford was billed as a sheep amidst the wolves when he was booked for an appearance at the Netroots Nation conference here in ...

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DNCC Blogger Details Still a Puzzle

Sarah Granger | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Progress Now, Digg, Big Tent, Democratic National Convention, Momocrats, Google, Daily Kos, Dnc, Home News
Sarah Granger

A daily American Samoa seat raffle in the Blogger Lounge. The Big Tent. The Mile High Stadium events. The inadequacy of three thousand data lines -- just some of the many mysteries unfolding in Denver.

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Hillary: Don't Expect Your Bashers to thank You for Doing the Right Thing on FISA

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Daily Kos, Intelligence, The Nation, Hillary Critics, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Telecommunications Companies, Surveillance, FISA Bill, Move on.Org, Huffington Post, Hillary Clinton, Home News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

In January Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton plainly and unequivocally said that they were deeply troubled by the F...

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Thomas B. Edsall

What Obama Can Learn From Bubba

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Daily Kos, Triangulation, Barack Obama, Glenn Greenwald, Bill Clinton, Obama Triangulation, Mike Lux, Obama Move to Center, Obama Moves Center, Politics News

The bitter ideological debate over Barack Obama's decision to support to controversial national security wiretapping legislation and other "moves to t...

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Obama's FISA Cave In: A Reverse "Souljah" Moment

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.22.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Markos Moulitsas, Glenn Greenwald, Fisa, Digby, Talking Points Memo, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

When other candidates tack left or right between the party primary and election day, it's a form of Kabuki; we all know what they really stand for because they've left legislative paper trails that show us.

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Anyone Want a Few Million More Votes?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Singled Out, Friends, Economy, Community, Children and Families, Single Women Voters, Marriage, Images, Singlism, Pennsylvania Primary, Anthropologists, 2008 Presidential Race, Demographics, Single Women, Parents, Family, Democratic Primaries, Soccer Moms, Fmla, John McCain, Exit Polls, Michelle Obama, Chelsea Clinton, Openleft, Single Voters, Npr, Singles, Great Moments in Presidential Speeches, Barack Obama, Wrong Track, Daily Kos, Cnn, Stereotypes, Advertising, Siblings, Interest in Politics, Iraq War, Hillary Clinton, Transportation Problems, NASCAR Dads, Healthcare, David Letterman, Wvwv, Politics News
Bella DePaulo

Single voters play favorites, their favorites are Democrats, and there are about 92 million of them eligible to vote.

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MoveOn: Obama Got Outfoxed

Adam Green | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Daily Kos, Chris Wallace, Republican Mouthpiece, Barack Obama, Progressives, Wright, Progressive Movement, Fox, Race, Dailykos, Media News
Adam Green

Obama did himself, the Democratic Party, and the progressive movement a disservice this weekend. It was a mistake to go on FOX and treat the experience as if it was a real news interview.

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Killing Sacred Cows Online

Andrew Daley | Posted 04.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Common Sense Nms, 2008, Bloggers, New Media, Marketing, New Media Marketing, Advertising, Daily Kos, Business News
Andrew Daley

The cow is out of the barn and has been for some time, or should I say the consumer, and trust me, they're not going back in. Shut the doors and move online.

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Not Worth the Paper it's Not Printed On

David Mizner | Posted 04.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Hillary Clinton, Video, Primary, Barack Obama, Kos, Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos, Media News
David Mizner

In January, Markos Moulitsas of The Daily Kos was a skeptic who denied the differences between the candidates; now he's a cheerleader for Obama who exaggerates the differences between them.

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Kos: Clinton's "Destructive Coup Attempt" Good For Democrats

Newsweek | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Obama Delegates, Obama Frontrunner, Obama Clinton, Clinton Popular Vote, Markos Moulitsas Newsweek, Obama Popular Vote, Hillary Clinton, Clinton Delegates, Daily Kos, Politics News

Hillary Clinton has proved during the past few months that she is a fighter, that she is tenacious, and that she is in the race to win. There's just ...

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Kos Mocks Clinton Bloggers "On Strike"

Daily Kos | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kos Bloggers, Obama Kos, Obama, Clinton Kos Bloggers, Daily Kos Strike, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Obama Daily Kos, Politics News

Al Giordano, on the laughable Clinton-supporters "strike" of this blog: There was always something incongruous about the self-proclaimed "Hillary...

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Bloggers Go To Bat For Obama

Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Blogs, USA Today, National Public Radio, Breaking Campaign News, Fire Dog Lake, AOL News, Associated Press, Fox News, Nedra Pickler, Barack Obama, Jane Hamser, Breaking Media News, Daily Kos, Americablog, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Nearly 15,000 protest letters sent in just a matter of days in response to a single AP news article? That could mark the dawn of a new era in progressive media activism.

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Olbermann Blogging Regularly At DailyKos

TV Newser | Posted 01.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Keith Olbermann DailyKos, Olbermann Blog, Keith Olbermann, Olbermann Daily Kos, Daily Kos, Dailykos, Media News

Two weeks ago TVNewser noted that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann wrote a blog post at leftie political site Daily Kos. It appears that he is now a regular at...

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Sam Stein

Edwards Campaign Accidentally Pushed False Obama Quote To Media

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Daily Kos, Democratic Primary, Edwards Campain Aide, Openleft, False Quote, Ronald Reagan, John Edwards, CBS News, Barack Obama, Matt Stoller, Politics News

Early Thursday afternoon a quote attributed to Sen. Barack Obama applauding the political dexterity of Ronald Reagan appeared on CBS News' website. Th...

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Democrats For Mitt!? DailyKos Pushes Dems To Back Romney In Michigan

Daily Kos | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney Michigan, Michigan Primary, Democratic Primary, Markos Moulitsas, George Wallace, Mitt Romney, Michigan, 2008 Election, Daily Kos, Politics News

In 1972, Republican voters in Michigan decided to make a little mischief, crossing over to vote in the open Democratic primary and voting for segregat...

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