KOS To Be Named Captain of First All-Star Blogger Team

Terrific analysis, by Matt Stoller, of the potential consequences brought on by the evolving smear campaign, spearheaded by the Right, of Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, a.k.a. Daily KOS. The filthy, shameless, immoral tactics of the Neocon Religious Right have spilled out of the written and broadcast media and onto the formerly free and virginal blogiverse. The blogwars have begun, and the Right has the better resources (money, practice, support from their 'christian god') to be more successful at it. Snippet:

I'm going to describe a character assasination attempt, the first one of import, in the blogosphere. This is a complicated story. It involves exploiting a heavily reactionary media environment to strike at speech for political purposes. It reveals a bipartisan problem, because blogs carry some characteristics that make them uniquely vulnerable to exploitation. And it's something that's going to happen, again and again, to both Republicans and Democrats, because of the surfeit of information and mainstreaming of online politics. The short story is that Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of the Daily Kos said a terrible comment about contractors in Iraq, which he retracted but did not apologize for. The right complained, then attacked, the Daily Kos's advertisers pulled their ads from the site, John Kerry delinked him, several 'reasonable' liberal bloggers piled on him, and the controversy has shown up so far in the Wall Street Journal and on the South Dakotan GOP's web site. It probably won't end there. But this is something that was going to happen, and it will happen again, because the web creates memory, and all of a sudden, leaves open to exploitation a huge amount of political speech that was never before traceable.

We totally agree with the comments that KOS made regarding the mercenaries in Iraq, so if you jackass right-wing jerks want to come after Left is Right, here we are. As your W-leader said so succinctly and so idiot-like (and we repeat here so that you can adequately comprehend), "Bring 'Em On".