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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (61524)	8/2/2007 1:31:20 AM
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Kos And Effect For Democrats By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:30 PM PT Politics: They won't debate on Fox News. They won't appear at the meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council. But they will grovel at the convention of a hate-filled Web site. This should tell voters all they need to know. Sen. Hillary Clinton didn't show up at the DLC's meeting in Tennessee over the weekend. Neither did the rest of the Democratic field, including John Edwards, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden and the legendary Dennis Kucinich. But with the courageous exception of Biden, they all will be at this week's Yearly Kos convention in Chicago, mum about their tacit endorsement of a blog site that raises hate speech to an art form. The Democratic Leadership Council was formed to provide a forum to mull moderate ideas that might actually work rather than just consume taxpayers' dollars. It was to help make Democrats more competitive in national contests by appealing to swing voters. It would help put Bill Clinton on the map with an address to the DLC in 1991. Some 300 office holders from 45 states attended the DLC confab, founded by Clinton in 1985 when he was governor of Arkansas. In 2000, Al Gore gave the keynote address, as did John Kerry in 2004. But having lost two successive elections to that cowboy from Texas, the Democratic party has succumbed to an ideological coup by the likes of MoveOn.org and the Daily Kos. It was their influence that prompted announcements by Clinton, Obama and Edwards that they would not participate in a Democratic debate co-hosted by the Fox News Channel and the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute in September. Now, as the New Republic's Noam Scheiber wrote in a New York Times op-ed, "the council has become radioactive among Democratic primary voters." Scheiber considers "the Democratic Leadership Council's fading influence is also good news for the entire party." Highly trafficked Daily Kos, which boasts contributors such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, provides a forum for the looniest of the left to vent their anonymous venom and expound their wildest conspiracy theories . Diarist "Dburn" recently suggested that Pat Tillman, the NFL star who gave up his career to fight in Afghanistan, was whacked on orders from the White House because "it was well known that he was against the war in Iraq." The Daily Kos was created in 2002 by Chicago native Mar- kos Moulitsas Zuniga, nicknamed Kos, who claims it was a response to "those dark days when an oppressive and war-crazed administration suppressed all dissent as unpatriotic and treasonous." But as the Tillman post illustrates, the Daily Kos goes beyond being a forum for dissent. Postings on the site by anonymous "diarists" have said that the world would be better off if White House Press Secretary Tony Snow's cancer returned. They wished the Taliban better luck next time after a plot to kill Vice President Dick Cheney during a visit fizzled. They suggest Iran has legitimate reasons to nuke Israel. You get the idea. This is the crowd Clinton, Obama et al. seek to please. For over a year, the Kos Web site posted a picture involving Sen. Joe Lieberman and President Bush that was so offensive we will not describe it here. Suffice it to say it demonstrated the venomous hate that permeates this site. And it showed that tolerance for dissent is a one-way street. Lieberman's dissent on Iraq within his party is courageous and legitimate. We wonder if Sens. Clinton and Obama, and former Sen. Edwards, endorse the Kos hate-fest, as their appearances suggest. DLC founder Al From suggests the Democrats will move back to the middle after their convention picks a nominee. Unfortunately, they've already gone off the deep end. ibdeditorials.com