Yearly Kos : What Fame Will Bring to Kos

LGF links to an article by Byron York of National Review discussing the attention Kos is likely to garner in the wake of his convention:

While [Kos'] writings—and the controversies they have caused—are an old topic in the blogosphere, they have remained largely unexamined in major media outlets....

...For example, one of Moulitsas’s most famous statements, involving the brutal murders of four American contractors in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004—“I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.”—has been the target of extensive criticism on conservative blogs and in conservative media outlets, but, according to a search of the Nexis database, has never been mentioned in the Washington Post. (It was quoted, once, in the New York Times, deep in a September 2004 feature story on bloggers.) Nor has it been reported in any major newsmagazine or been the topic of conversation on any major television program. . . . the remarkable thing is how little scrutiny Moulitsas’s writings have received in major media outlets. Now, after YearlyKos and all the attention that came with it, it seems likely that will change.

I'd like to think Byron is right on this point, though only time will tell. Kos's fundamental plan is to convince the far left to keep quiet and stay in ranks long enough to get a critical mass of Democrats elected. Once that critical mass is achieved, the Democrats' debt to the far left is to be repaid with a laundry list of left-wing policy enactments. The problem for the Kossacks is, it's going to be tough for them to keep their mouths shut and keep up the veneer of moderation up long enough to capture that power. On top of that, and as Byron has pointed out, they've produced gigabytes of writings over the past few years, most of which were drafted back in the day when no one outside of the Daily Kos community was really paying any attention.

The Kossacks have been looking forward to the day when the people really paid attention to them. From the extensive media coverage, it appears that they have (at least temporarily) gotten what they wished for.

I seem to remember my Grandma advising me to be careful what you wish for...

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