The War's Left Front

Newsweek by Jonathan Darman | Jun. 26, 2006 (Opinion)

July 3-10, 2006 issue - Markos Moulitsas Zuniga is sitting on his back porch in Berkeley, Calif., listening to the hummingbirds and explaining his plans to seize control of the Democratic Party. It is one week after YearlyKos, the Las Vegas conference of progressives that Moulitsas sponsored and promoted heavily on his popular liberal blog, DailyKos.com. Every major media outlet in the country had attended the conference, detailing the spectacle of ... Full Story »

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by Rod Amis - Oct. 1, 2008

This piece, hypothesizing about the ability of the Daily Kos blog to affect the politics (and electability) of Democratic Party candidates is a bit of fluff, in my view. It's "horse race" talk, as well as a critique of the blogosphere that borders on celebrity journalism, if not what we inside call "advertorial." It's so speculative that it almost ceases to be informative.

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