Daily Kos

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

The logo for the Kos. If you look closely, you can see a tattoo of the Freemasonry movement on the flag-holding man's hand.

Alternative 2008 Daily Kos logo.

Daily Kos is a Communist blog which highlights the best of the tinfoil hat crowd's conspiracy theories about George W. Bush, conservatives, and the state of the nation. Articles on this shrill blog claim that Bush stole the election, that Dick Cheney is a robot when he is actually just a cyborg, and that Ann Coulter is a man, with this last claim being particularly cruel and insidious in light of the fact that post-op transvestites identify themselves as women and prefer to be referred to as such.

[edit] A History

Daily Kos was founded by an Mexican named Markos "Kos" Moulitsas Zuniga in 2002. Created to "fight the right in the blogger wars," it has become a popular clearing house for liberal news and propaganda. Like its sister site, Wikipedia, it is uninterested in facts, and instead treats its own wild-eyed theories as common knowledge.

[edit] Kos the paid consultant

In 2004, during the Democratic Party presidential primaries, Markos was a paid consultant for the Howard Dean campaign. You see, Kos is close friends with Joe Trippi, Dean's former campaign manager. He hardly told anyone about his being on the Dean campaign's payroll, and only disclosed their relationship after being pressured by media watchdogs. He finally posted a really super pissy disclosure for the duration of his time as a Dean consultant. To this day, he still hates anyone bringing up his consultant work, and dodges the question about it to this day.

Joe Trippi, Howard Dean's former campaign manager, is now the campaign manager for John Edwards' 2008 presidential run. The fact that Kos has been shilling for John Edwards since the beginning of 2007 is surely an unrelated coincidence.

[edit] Drama

• The site has a very interesting policy on comments, barring new users from commenting on the first day they sign up. That is because they are fascist and fear dissenting thought.
• They constantly have blog wars with Little Green Footballs in an attempt to see who can penetrate the other's tinfoil the best.
• If a dissenting opinion is given, the moderators constantly ask for "proof" that your opinion is right, even if you've already given it. If you continue to give dissenting opinions, you will be labeled a troll and have your posting "privileges" revoked.

[edit] User Diaries

Average Daily Kos contributor, Bertrand Newton

Because founder Markos Moulitas is a paid CIA disinformation agent charged with discrediting the liberal movement and is thus usually too busy cashing his CIA checks to provide adequate material for the blog, Daily Kos is now driven largely by user diaries. These generally fall under one of the following general headings:

• "My brother's friend lost his job FUCK YOU GEORGE BUSH *UPDATE* My brother's friend is still unemployed after two days FUCK YOU GEORGE BUSH
• "FUCK YOU GEORGE BUSH w/poll"[1]
• "I have an opinion about Israel. Does anyone else have an opinion about Israel? If so, we should argue about Israel on my user diary."
• "HAI GUYZ I'M JOHN EDWARDS, WHATZ GOING ON IN THIS BLOG?!?111111!?1"
• "Let's pretend like we rightfully despise Christianity"
• "Hey, somebody just sayed something we disagree with, the GOP must be planting shills!"
• "That idea is totally unrealistic and would never work in the real world, good job, we all agree."

[edit] Outside Links

• Daily Kos
• Netroots Nation
• Dailykos Fightin' Dem Myspace
• Dailykos Asslicking User Myspace
• MAMZ daddy's Myspace