Word: kos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crowd at yearly Kos, the Daily Kos' bloggers' convention in Las Vegas last week, was predictably politigeeky. Glued to their laptops, the bloggers wore their liberal hearts on their lapels. (The most popular button showed Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, reviled for his pro-war position, kissing George W. Bush.) But in defiance of the image of the blogger, the crowd wasn't young...
...Moulitsas keeps a low profile for the first day, an absence that highlights how Thursday's sincere and dutiful workshops on organizing differ from the intense and volatile political debate readers have come to expect from Daily Kos itself. One journalist presses some workshop attendees on the apparent disconnect between the online bomb-throwers and the chatty, eager conference-goers. A woman explains that one would never attack someone in person the way you can online: "It's the difference between bombing someone from 50,000 feet and sticking a bayonet between their eyes." And most people, she observes...
...hour or so, drinking from the cash bar and getting glittery-eyed. The cartoonist Tom Tomorrow warms up the crowd, reading his cartoons aloud as they are projected on giant screens behind him. It doesn?t seem that vital to pay attention, but halfway through the act, a Yearly Kos volunteer stops by the conversational knot I?m in and shushes us. It?s the first sign of militancy and while they may not be reaching for the bayonets, the audience stomps and hoots when Moulitsas takes the stage. He smiles benignly and begins: ?My name is Markos...
...televisions around the room. Friday night, former Virginia governor and potential 2008 contender Mark Warner is pouring the booze. New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, also a rumored presidential possibility, plies them with a breakfast of stale pastries - a poor offering, perhaps, but he?s also on a Yearly Kos panel. As is Clark...
...Everyone knows that the attendance at Yearly Kos by so many traditional politicians (we?re also going to be treated to speeches by Tom Vilsack, Howard Dean and Harry Reid) assures bloggers? place in the political universe. Shortly before Moulitsas?s speech, Joe Trippi gropes for the right metaphor, comparing politicians? courting of this nascent movement to the presidential primaries: ?No one wants to skip Iowa.? Yet the politicians especially seem to be figuring it out as they go along - fear of missing the boat outweighs doubt about its final destination. Clark gives his speech on American innovation...