I think you can only consider yourself lucky to have been tolerated so far. Every other voice of dissent I’ve witnessed has been brutally cracked down on, either by Charles who actively deletes accounts of anyone who clearly disagrees with him, or in the comment sections with tons of name-calling, flaming, and ad-hominem arguments, that you yourself have witnessed.

If I could post a few remarks there I’d get banned in less than an hour.

Even some of the LGF commenters noted that DK is trying to go mainstream, so toning it down is probably in the future anyway. I think Hillary’s media manager is on O’Reilly tonight to address her presence at YK. I hope s/he points out Charles’ dishonesty in presenting certain posts as ‘representing’ DK. Not holding my breath either.

I think you may find my profile on Killgore interesting. The LGF vs. Kos thing is nothing new, and I don’t think it’s really done anything to “tone down” Kos. Kos is just an easy punching bag for them to use to validate their opinions (the “left” hates the troops, hates America, is anti-Semitic, whatver ) because of the diverse nature of it’s participants.

Glad to see you follow up on that kerfuffle. I only jumped in because Charles has made it a habit of seeking out obnoxious comments and diares at DailyKos, and then presenting them in a way that makes it seem like Markos wrote/supports them.

Thinking about it today though, it occurs to me that LGF may be doing Kos a huge favor by pointing those out and making it easier for Kos to remove/moderate them. Sorta the same logic that digital virus-writers use to justify their destructiveness – it ends up making the web safer in the end because it generates anti-virus programs. And it seems to be working since Kos is making it clear that he wants the invective toned down.

I just had one of my first visits to LGF. The whole Daily Kos thing was linked to from Balloon Juice, one of my favourite moderate sites.

As an Australian, I’m not really obliged to support your troops. When looking through the vast, vast LGF comment thread, though, yours were the only comments that somewhat resembled my own opinion.

You are a braver man than I, sir. You provide a valuable service to all with your objections, no matter how lost they may get within the echo chamber.

Keep it up.

Consider putting us in your blog roll and voting for us in the blogger’s choice awards.

Just kidding.