And yes, people post conspiracies on Kos. Yet, there is no similar stovepipe effect where the charges consistently get into the mainstream as the con blog -> Fox pipeline does. It simply doesn’t exist.

You don’t see anything sort of hypocritical about that?

The procedure is clear:

1) Make up some outrageous smear that is based on the slightest grain of plausibility.

2) Post it on Kos.

3) Rely on the hordes of mindless Kossacks to spread the smear to every corner of the interwebs.

4) Wait for the smear to be debunked thoroughly.

5) Delete the original posting without comment or correction, letting the nigh-infinite repetitions fostered hither and yon to stand unchallenged.

In the short time between when Sarah Palin was picked as the nominee and the election, I counted no less than three examples of this playing out precisely as described — and I didn’t even have to look too hard. (Palin wasn’t Trig’s birth mother, Palin cut funding for special education, Palin cut funding for pregnant teens.) With a bit more digging, I could probably have found several more — but I was content that three were a sufficient number of examples to prove the pattern.

J.

That’s the ticket!

So where do major networks pick up on these messages a la Fox News and the reliable Republican Noise Machine (such as noted by the brilliant Daily Show “Talking Points” clip).

You still have no idea what I’m talking about do you?

J.

The Protocols Of The Daily Kos
Posted by Jay Tea
Published: September 8, 2008 – 11:00 AM

(Title shamelessly stolen from Charles Johnson)

The Daily Kos web site has always been an open sewer of the internet …

Emphasis added. Total lack of self-awareness in the original.

wizbangblog.com/content/2008/09/08/the-protocols-of-the-daily-kos.php

Unfortunately, at Kos, they tend to delete entries that later prove embarrassing. They start the message, then once it proves embarrassing to the community, they go back and delete it. By that point, the damage is done.

J.

That’s horrible! Could you point them out? Did any major TV or cable networks promote them? How dreadful. You should make sure these people are properly identified and called out, stat!

And your theory reminds me of how, during the last campaign, so many of the most disgusting smears against Sarah Palin were traceable right back to Daily Kos. That she cut funding for pregnant teenagers, that she cut funding for special-needs students, that she wasn’t really Trig’s birth mother… all started at Kos, and spread all around from there.

Quite an efficient little bit of stovepiping there…

J.

Gibbs defaulted to his usual foil, Rush Limbaugh. Yes, he’s sure she would’ve chosen her words more carefully in that scripted speech given by someone of such a “compelling life story and long record of judicial service”, but my gosh, do you believe what Rush Limbaugh said about her?

I guess that’s what passes for clarity on the left when it’s suddenly necessary to admit a liberal judge made a blatantly racist comment.

Except as Robert Gibbs makes clear, Sotomayor’s point isn’t the radical rantings of a reconquista she-goddess as the right keeps claiming, but a common sense reading of the issue.

Gibbs on Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” comment: Her word choice was “poor”

A key moderate Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine , signaled Tuesday that she’s open to confirming Sotomayor, citing her “compelling life story and long record of judicial service.”

Of course the problem here is that Judge Sotomayor does, in fact, have a compelling life story which is a more true fact than 99.999999999999% of what conservatives push.

However, the moment they saw the percentage of Republican donations from car dealership owners, they should have shut their mouths. This is like complaining that McDonalds singles out Democrats for firing and ignoring that most people who work at McDonalds come from a socio-economic background that’s about 70% Democrat.

That link is from five freaking years ago

And yet still so relevant, it resonates even today. Amazing, isn’t it? I heard that the U.S. Constitution is even older than that. Or am I merely living in the past? Thanks for yet again skirting the issue at hand. Virtually speaking for the reality-based, we expected no less.

That link is from five freaking years ago, ed. You are living in the past, my friend. I think you hearken back to a time when Democrats were not in power and you loved wallowing in self-pity and blamed Republicans for all your problems. Clips from five years ago still rock your boat.