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FOX Puts the Hate on Markos | 35 comments (35 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Markos is going to be balanced by...wait for it...Karl Rove

Just fucking kill me now.

by sporkincident (spork_incident@hotmail.com) on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 02:19:43 PM EST

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Less than three months after leaving the Bush White House, Karl Rove is becoming a member of a community not all that popular with administration officials: the media.
Newsweek has signed the president's former deputy chief of staff as a commentator who will turn out several columns on the 2008 campaign through inauguration day. The move is not likely to prove popular among liberals who believe the mainstream media have been too soft on the Bush administration.
"We want to give readers a feel for what it's like to be on the inside," says Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. "Our readers are sophisticated enough to know that what they get from Karl has to be judged in the context of who Karl is...Readers will have to decide if he's simply an apologist."
Newsweek (which is owned by The Washington Post Co.) will announce tomorrow that it is granting regular space to both Rove and Markos Moulitsas, the liberal firebrand who founded the Web site Daily Kos. "I'm fully prepared for both the right-wing and left-wing blogosphere to be outraged, which means we're doing our job," Meacham says.

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by BooMan on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 02:22:41 PM EST
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Calling Markos a 'liberal firebrand' is almost ludicrous and proves again how insanely out of touch the mainstream media really is....besides apparently being unable to read. If they really read or listened to him they'd know he's not some wild eyed liberal...then again maybe to them he is.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 03:47:09 PM EST
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Firebrand? Well, sometimes. Liberal? He describes himself as a Libertarian and has long been associated with the centrist NDN. However, the Overton Window has shifted political discourse so far to the right he may look liberal. Whether he thinks of himself as a Liberal or not, I haven't seen Kos afraid of being associated with the "L Word", like so many Democrats. I expect Kos will be more willing to combat Rove's crap than several of the pundits Time might have chosen who describe themselves as liberal. (And who knows whether working with an editor will help him avoid some of those gaffes, like "women's studies set," that have created havoc on his site with some of its more liberal members in the past).

A Progressive Christian perspective on I/P at Beyond Bethlehem

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 04:54:28 PM EST
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Starting his own blog meant he didn't answer to anyone(especially the women's studies set) so I wonder how he'll do in the corporate setting where someone can edit his words for a change? I imagine it will all come down to how big his ego is and how much he wants the paycheck.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 05:10:36 PM EST
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It should be interesting to watch. The process of writing his book has already exposed him to working with an editor. Working for a weekly publication will be a new challenge. I have no idea whether his stint with Newsweek will help the general perception of the blogosphere or the netroots; but I doubt it will do any damage.

A Progressive Christian perspective on I/P at Beyond Bethlehem

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 07:39:12 PM EST
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Markos has already shown many times that he is in it for the paycheck. Everyone wants a paycheck, but what will you do to get it? That's the character question.

As for letting his doppelganger from the right be Karl Rove, is that a statement of Markos' ego at work, or is he content to let the public think he is Rove's counterpart from the left - an unprincipled dirty trickster from this side of the fence?

Not good, no matter how you slice it.

by sidewinder on Fri Nov 16th, 2007 at 09:52:55 AM EST
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