Nov 14 2007

Markos Moves to MSM…”AMF!”

Well, folks…surprise, surprise! Markos is headin’ on over to the MSM, via Newsweek.

It was only a matter of time. Here’s his announcement, via Newsweek’s press release:

Kos: “Remember that big announcement I promised earlier? Well, it’s now official.”

Newsweek press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 MARKOS MOULITSAS, FOUNDER AND PUBLISHER OF DAILYKOS.COM, TO BECOME NEWSWEEK CONTRIBUTOR FOR 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN New York — Markos Moulitsas, the founder and publisher of dailykos.com, will become a Newsweek contributor for the 2008 presidential campaign, offering occasional opinion pieces to the pages of the magazine and to Newsweek.com. "We have always sought to represent a diversity of views in Newsweek, and we think Markos will be a great part of that tradition," said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. "He will give our readers in print and online a unique perspective. As always, our job is to create the most energetic and illuminating magazine possible, and Markos will help us do that as the campaign unfolds.

As we used to say in the “‘hood,” “AMF!” (That’s “Adios, My Friend!” Or “Adios…something else!” …Depending on your disposition.)

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    • Faheyman on November 14, 2007 at 10:15
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    • Faheyman on November 14, 2007 at 10:30
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    …

    CAMPAIGN ’08

    Lost in the Cornfields

    By Richard Wolffe | NEWSWEEK

    Nov 19, 2007 Issue

    Is John Edwards in trouble in Iowa? Peg Dunbar thinks so. She signed up as a county chair for Edwards in the northeastern town of Waverly earlier this year, after backing the former senator’s campaign in 2004. Now she has changed her mind and switched to Hillary Clinton. “John Edwards has been in Iowa for four and a half years and he’s in third place,” she says. “He should be in first place. Granted, it’s very, very close. But I don’t see him going anywhere and I don’t go with a loser.”

    Dunbar is one of four county chairs-essential figures in any Iowa campaign-who have backed out since being identified as Edwards chairs in a June press release. Ernie Schiller of Lee County says he’s now undecided, Frank Best of Louisa County has switched to Obama and Jody Ewing is supporting Bill Richardson.

    Iowa voters are notoriously fickle and pick their candidates late in the game. But county chairs are not just any voters. They are the key grass-roots figures who help deliver votes on caucus night, now less than two months away. Four years ago, news of defections hurt Dick Gephardt over the summer and Howard Dean just before caucus night.

    The Edwards campaign says the defectors are just a handful of people among more than 4,000 supporters listed in press releases. “We have rolled out more public supporters than any other campaign,” says Dan Leistikow, Edwards’s spokesman in Iowa. “We feel very good about the strength of our organization.” The Edwards campaign also identified three supporters it had poached from other campaigns. When contacted by NEWSWEEK, one denied having switched; the other two were initially Obama backers who switched after their unions endorsed Edwards.

    The county chairs are not the only losses for Team Edwards. Several other backers, all named in prior press releases, have also defected. Gary Anhalt was named as an “education professional for Edwards” in September, but says he’s now uncommitted. Barton Rule was a former Tom Vilsack supporter who endorsed Edwards, but says he’s now backing Clinton, as is Jay Kleaveland, a rural chair for Edwards in Clayton County.

    Polling in Iowa is imprecise, but most show Edwards losing ground of late. No poll has put him in front since August. In the last month he’s been either tied with Obama for second place, or several points behind him in third. Campaigns can always replace individual supporters-but reversing a trend is much harder.

    Way to go, Kos!  Hillary rocks, right???

    • Tigana on November 14, 2007 at 19:01
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  4. is Satan incarnate. A Bush butt kisser who sends me into obscenities when ever he starts with “Well Kieth,…..”. Great now I get to curse at Kos when he says “Well Kieth…”. On the other hand there is Rachael Maddow, hey wait, she’s not a Newsweek lackey hack, she’s a progressive independent voice. Does Cheron own NBC?    

  5. I love the Peg Dunbar quote, “I don’t want to go with a loser”. Way to think for yourself, Peg. These polls discourage many folks from thinking at all and encourage the herd mentality ie, all these people couldn’t be wrong, HRC must be the way to go. Abolish the polls and force people to educate themselves.

    Re Newsweek, what the hell are they doing with markos when buhdy or OPOL (for example), could provide a much more colorful narrative:)

  6. may bad mouth Kos or the big orange, Kos is not of the CIA he’s a political wonk, a converted Reagan Democrat, vet, who loves the race. Isn’t he? Wow blows my mind. Francis Holland however is from personal blogging experience quite unstable and is not someone I would look to for balance or sanity. Kos is what he always has been to read more into him is I think a mistake to cast him as Satan is also. However this move is mind blowing!

  7. a policy called diversity bans!  

  8. http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…

    I wonder how long it’ll be ’til the ‘media overlords’ manage to end his use of the term???

    🙂

  9. barely a blip? This is a major story that is being ignored.We are the net this is Kos cannot any one here there or where ever weigh in? Budhy? Armando? someone hello? I guess we ignore this heh? WTF. Go on with your life and shop? Address this Budhy address this Armando. Where do you weigh in? What does this portend, why? Come on dudes lets hear why the net is just not more bullshit!    

  10. WELL

    in the beginning

    The blogs seemed to be on the outside l(0_0)king in

    then some of the insiders started l(0_0)king out

    now kos is an outsider on the inside l(0_0)king out

    and it is G(o_o)D

  11. but yesterday, while working on something else, I came across this: Markos on the speakers tour.  

  12. he has “friends” out there willing to set him straight.  I think it promotes the Dem agenda.  I said it the other day, I’m sick and tired of Republicans defining what our nations issues are.  Wouldn’t you just kill for a Democratic policy debate spawned by something Markos says?  I fricken would!  I would love to walk into the gas station to hear people debating Democratic policy instead of defending or berating the latest Republican talking points.  Suddenly the focus moves from what this Republican administration is trying to strong arm to what everyone thinks Democrats should stand for and Democrats will be the word on everyone’s tongue.  Matt Drudge can start providing full service to his 29% and only his 29%.

    • OPOL on November 15, 2007 at 18:56
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    News Weak is a rightwing rag.

      • Faheyman on November 14, 2007 at 19:21
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  14. gleaming in the shadow of Keith Olberman and Bill Maher, he is relegating himself to opinion pieces and meaningless polls, which is where he belongs.  No surprise, not after the things he came out with this year.

    Next!

  15. Then you can control ’em.

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