A Wonderful Day in the Reality-Based Community
Charles Johnson
Thu Dec 22, 2005 at 7:21 pm PST • Views: 262
Hey kidz! It’s time for The Wonderful World of Kos.
Lots of buzz (just check out Memeorandum) over this Washington Monthly profile of our ol’ buddy Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Some highlights and lowlights:
The site, which has existed for only around three and a half years, now has 3.7 million readers each week. That’s more than the top 10 opinion magazines—of both left and right—combined, more readers than any political publication has had, ever, in the history of the world.Psbbbbtt! Patently false; 3.7 million visitors a week is not really 3.7 million visitors, as anyone familiar with a sitemeter knows (it is impressive, don’t get me wrong). The real number of visitors to Kos has been estimated (granted, a year ago, and his traffic has grown since then) at roughly 25-30,000. Many of those people visit every day - in fact, most. To estimate that more than 100,000 people read Kos weekly, then, is probably off the mark.“Everybody says I’m an a**hole, and they’re right, I am,” Moulitsas says. …[W]hen the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee threw a party for him and some other bloggers at last year’s Boston convention, he arrived, immediately picked a loud, disruptive fight with the organization’s executive director, Jim Bonham, and stormed out.Ever the charmer, eh?The myth of Karl Rove, which looms over American politics, and the conviction that the party’s wins or losses are a matter of tactics, not substance, has left the Democrats looking for their own master tactician. And some in the party seem to want to see Moulitsas in that role.And may I say, more than a few Republicans (oh, please, please, PLEASE give Markos more of a role in the Democratic Party!).
Indeed™.
UPDATE at 12/22/05 7:45:17 pm:
Gateway Pundit has more thoughts on the Kos Konvergence.
Frank says: