Word: kos
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...Left-leaning Bloggers Ready for Their Close-up? Dispatch: Inside the Yearly Kos fest in Las Vegas, progressives get lessons in going mainstream...
...supporting a law to ban flag-burning, all part of a shameless attempt to move toward the political center for a possible presidential run. Her consistent support for the Iraq War has them positively apoplectic. In a May survey of 14,000 readers on the popular liberal blog Daily Kos, the New York Senator finished fifth among potential presidential contenders, earning only 2% of the vote; first was Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, who has opposed the war from the beginning, with...
Mark Warner kept referring to the party he threw last weekend for the attendees of the Yearly Kos convention as the "first date" between the presumptive Presidential candidate and the liberal blogosphere. It was perhaps a infelicitous metaphor, given both the seediness of Las Vegas and the ridiculous excess of the party itself. Reportedly thrown at a cost of $50,000, the gathering made the observation floor of the Stratosphere hotel positively groan from the weight of the sushi tables, ice sculptures and open bars. There was a Blues Brothers cover band (if it is possible to cover a cover...
...Warner was the first Presidential hopeful to commit to coming to Yearly Kos. Jerome Armstrong, the co-author of "Crashing the Gate" with Yearly Kos namesake Markos Moulitsas, is the governor's Internet consultant and unofficial blogger liaison. Clearly, the Warner campaign has great hopes for leveraging what convention-goers call "the netroots." Yet to judge by Warner's actual speech, the netroots are just another constituency, a Democratic special-interest group to be placated by a campaign promise or two. Aside from a warm-up that referenced the night's festivities, Warner delivered his time-tested stump speech...
...course, the bloggers of Yearly Kos have a ways to go before they are either as feted (or as fetid) as they believe mainstream journalists to be. And as seriously as they seemed to take the conference, they don't take themselves as seriously as mainstream journalists do, either. On the conference's last day, someone brought an industrial roll of aluminum foil and dozens of attendees spent the afternoon walking around in elaborate tin-foil hats. If Judy Miller of the New York Times had thought to pack along a similar prop when she was embedded in Iraq...