Kos' uncle was the Minister for Education for El Salvador during the 1980s.  At the time Kos' uncle was a government official, right-wing death squads were roaming the countryside, wiping out campesinos (peasants) who allied themselves with the political left.

The political class (those allowed to hold high office) in El Salvador has always been small:  perhaps 30 families rotate the political offices amongst them.  That means the Moulitsas family is, shall we say, well-connected.  The very fact that they were allowed to leave El Salvador at that time says that they had a freedom of movement that the ordinary Salvadoran peasants sure didn't have.

And yes, Kos has written many times that he admired Ronald Reagan.  Reagan is Kos' hero and the model of what a Republican ought to be.

As for me, I voted against Reagan twice and hated not only his politics but the empty-headed, empty-hearted man himself.  And Reagan was STILL a much better President than the current occupant!

You can find the article about the right-wing affiliation of the Moulitsas family at this Washington Monthly article:  Kos Call by Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Moulitsas was born in Chicago to a middle class, ethnically-Greek family from El Salvador (his uncle, an architect, had briefly been that country's education minister). The family moved back to El Salvador when Moulitsas was four and was on the right-wing side of the Cold War proxy fight there. But as that war's intrusions became unbearable--Moulitsas talks about stepping over dead bodies--the family returned to Chicago, where he grew up, in his own words, "a loudmouthed nerd."

After high school, Moulitsas, then a Reagan Republican thanks largely to the White House's support of the Salvadorean government, spent four years as an army artillery scout, mainly in Germany.

In any event, I hope all is well with you and your family.  My wife is done with her chemo, and appears to be cancer free, if you can trust the blood tests.  So that's the good news from my family.

Steve

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."

I've also called kos on other things since then as well.

So go fuck your own joke supersoling.

Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days. Sherlock Holmes

Your point is worthy of consideration, but your language makes it easy to dismiss.  I don't think Carnacki deserves what you dished out.

I suggest you do what Kos didn't:  apologize for the name calling and the language and restate your point.  We're more likely to take you seriously if you do, and we certainly would respect you for it.