Kos. cough-cough : (

Oh, great. Shoddy journalism, with added expletives. What a combo.

Newsweak

He may be more coherent than other diarists at the Daily Krap, but not by that much. Newsweek is a decent mag, and this will only drag them down.

What? You expected any better from Newsweak?
/snort

Did you just call yourself a wingnut? lol

I'm very interested to see who Newsweek picks as Kos' counterpart, if they do at all.

Man, he's weird.

Not that his addition will bring any editorial diversity to that rag....

Charles - maybe you can get a commentary gig for Time or better yet, AFP ;-)

Does Soros control Newsweek too?

re: #6 n00ser

Did you just call yourself a wingnut? lol

I'm very interested to see who Newsweek picks as Kos' counterpart, if they do at all.

They'll get somebody from the opposite side of the ailse, like Richard Armitage.

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this, but last time I checked, my head was still very much intact.

Maybe that just proves, by the Moulitsas Litmus Test (patent pending), that you are not a "wingnut."

Newsweek is a pathetic rag, so their association with a sniveling weasel like Kos is a no-brainer. Why would Charles want to hire on with the MSM? It's almost as bad as hooking up with VB and SD.

This is excellent news. It will only hasten the eventual, inevitable demise of Newsweek, Time, and all the other "unbiased" weekly news rags.

Newsweek has been a far left leaning liberal rag for as long as I can remember, so this really comes as no surprise. Sad that they still think of themselves as an unbiased news source.

re: #4 marwan's daughter

Newsweek is a decent mag, and this will only drag them down.

Compared to what?

I stopped reading Newsweek years ago when their bias became so obvious they didn't even try to pretend to hide it.

Where are wingnut heads exploding? Show me a blog where this is occuring? Nevermind....

Newsweek CAN have good articles, sometime, but not often enough to make me want to pay for it.

I think my last issue of Newsweek had John Belushi on the cover.

Just hire him to do 'hard hitting commentary' and turn the cartoon area over to Ted Rall and get it over with.

Maybe then they'll die quick and painlessly as opposed to slow and painful

Also announced: Newsweek will now be re-named Newsfuckinweek.

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this, but last time I checked, my head was still very much intact.

Last time I checked, I didn't give a shit.

re: #16 Wendya

re: #4 marwan's daughter

Newsweek is a decent mag, and this will only drag them down.

Compared to what?

I stopped reading Newsweek years ago when their bias became so obvious they didn't even try to pretend to hide it.

Well compared to, say, The Nation. I do think Time can beat the pants off of Newsweek though.

That's an awesome photoshop!

re: #6 n00ser

Did you just call yourself a wingnut? lol

I'm very interested to see who Newsweek picks as Kos' counterpart, if they do at all.

How about Michael Savage? LMAO!

re: #24 Ward Cleaver

How about Michael Savage? LMAO!

Just put a wrestling ring at the convention and let them fight to the death

re:

commies hiring commies ?
what a surprise !

nothing will change...

Is there any confirmation of the rumor that Newsweek is also re-branding by changing its name to "Newspeak?"

I see no reason why any "wingnut" would explode over this. It would be like saying astronomers heads "Explode" at discovery that the sun is bright. Yeah, so another liberal is on staff at Newsweek, and it rained in the Amazon today. So what?

I needed a good laugh today, thanks newsweak.

re: #25 Defector01

re: #24 Ward Cleaver

How about Michael Savage? LMAO!

Just put a wrestling ring at the convention and let them fight to the death

Savage cracks him over the head with an expensive bottle of wine, and it's over.

/not.advocating.violence

/satire

Kos covers campaign
Affirmative action hire
Fills need for moonbat

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re: #20 Dead Sea Squirrel

Also announced: Newsweek will now be re-named Newsfuckinweek.

Ha! Ha!

Could you imagine the kossack krew on Newsweek's editorial staff?

"Not enough expletives in that copy, Bob. And where's my multiple exclamation points? Besides, I thought we were doing this issue in ALL CAPS WITH LOTS OF RANDOM BOLDFACE AND MISPaLLINGS!"

Signed,

The Jinxmedic.

re: #32 cosmo

Kos covers campaign
Affirmative action hire
Fills need for moonbat

Brilliant!

My head exploded. Actually, it did that other thing. Emitted a mild chuckle is the term.

Is there even a pretense of objectivity in the MSM any more?

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Newsweek will lose more readers than it gains from this. But whatever, their call.

I've only ever read Newsweek in the doctor's and dentist's offices anyway.

Newsweek? I don't even read that shit waiting at the dentists office. A brochure on gingivitis provides better insight.

The Daily KKKos and the Liberal Democratic Propaganda Machine, aka the MSM are a perfect pair. A match made in Dante's Circle of hell. I'm quite sure it will be un biased and truthfull...(GAG ALERT)

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re: #36 v the k

My head exploded. Actually, it did that other thing. Emitted a mild chuckle is the term.

Is there even a pretense of objectivity in the MSM any more?

Nope.

Hey Victor!

Yep, Time and Newsweek--two birdcage liners of equal worth.

Just another example of the MSM trying to pander to the radical left.

It will be interesting to see how their circulation reacts- and how willing they are to potentially lose revenue.

Why would the right's head explode when a left leaning print mag invites a leftist, hate mongering filth spew to it's convention? It's EXPECTED you jackass......markkos, you give yourself WAY too much credit.....

Newsweek is also in bed with MessNBC, correct? Can't wait for the Olberdunce-Kos convergence.

I've been too busy snickering for my head to explode.

BTW, anyone have an idea who the "conservative" is they'll be adding?

And the diminishment in reporting integrity, news value, balance and accuracy of the mainstream media ... CONTINUES...

As the enterprise values of these formerly powerful news franchise brands plummets to unimagined lows.

And they wonder why?

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zombie has a great pic of the Kos-Sucker on the Folsom Street Fair page.

He looks so cute in those patent leather thigh high boots.

His lil' sperm bank of a rump is adorable!

My head's not exploding while I'm laughing my ass off.

I guess Markos is having no problem overseeing all of the posts on his web site.....like he promised to do.
Therefore he has all this free time to cover politics for Newsweak.

re: #12 buzzsawmonkey

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this, but last time I checked, my head was still very much intact.

Maybe that just proves, by the Moulitsas Litmus Test (patent pending), that you are not a "wingnut."

Monkey don't bring formal logic into any discussion regarding Kos...

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding”

It's more like a gut buster.

NONewsThisweek is going to go away very soon unless they adapt to the cycle that todays news happens. They haven't been an important news organization or source for well over ten years.

re: #45 shibumi

Just another example of the MSM trying to pander to the radical left.

It will be interesting to see how their circulation reacts- and how willing they are to potentially lose revenue.

They should just put dKos's URL in huge letters on the cover. That'll help.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Evan Thomas of Newsweek was obviously upset that his magazine and other MSM Democrat-cheerleaders were not able to drag Kerry over the finish line in 2004. They are making sure that this doesn't happen again.

No doubt that they will hire someone like Pat Buchannan (who hates Bush, the neo-cons and probably all of the other GOP candidates) to show their dedication to "balance."

...and I have long ago taken the money we used to spend on subscriptions to rags like this and the local paper to send to LGF and National Review On-line.

Newsweek was alarmist before being one was cool.......

Hey Newsweak, remember Ned Lamont?

20 dead sea squirrel -that is right. F-bomb Kos

Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company. Nuff said.

The MSM keeps on inflating this guy like a blow up doll.

They're going to pay for his opinion?

Why? Is Newsweek that solvent that it can afford to throw money Kos's way? I don't blame Kos for accepting the gig (it's a high profile paying writing assignment), but I do have questions for why Newsweek thinks that adding him to their roster improves the magazine.

1) "Screw them." Does that ring a bell? Guess not. Or if it does, they have no problem with it. Newsweek, your bias is showing.
2) Political pontificating from someone who is Ofer in having his preferred candidates win elections isn't a smart move unless you're calling on your readers to do precisely the opposite of what Kos say? He's gotten the politics wrong and has backed the wrong horse so often that he's bound to get it right eventually. No one can be that awful in predicting winners and backing them. Kos is trying to disprove that notion.
3) Is Newsweek that in need of yet another leftist that they had to extend it to Kos? Again, their bias is showing.

Altogether, it shows just how silly Newsweek is and how unserious they are about political coverage.

"We have always sought to represent a diversity of views in Newsweek, and we think Markos will be a great part of that tradition," said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. "He will give our readers in print and online a unique perspective. As always, our job is to create the most energetic and illuminating magazine possible, and Markos will help us do that as the campaign unfolds."

So Newsweek wants to have good nutroots coverage without having a staffer dirty their hands?

Newsweek?

People still read week-old news?

Just before this "news" was broken by Kos yesterday, I could swear I noticed an item on that spy Prouty in the Kos Kid headlines, but the name didn't register until I saw the item on Prouty here.

I went back later to check and there was no sign of it anywhere, and I searched DK and found nothing.

Knowing the children, perhaps it probably was something siding with the spy, and maybe it would have caused embarrassment to Newsweek's latest hire and thus disappeared down the memory hole.

I could be wrong and mistakenly was looking at another blog in the Ajax links.

karnak Holds envelope up to head

"DAILY KOS"
"NEWSWEEK"

Ed mcmahon...."Daily Kos......Newsweek"

karnak gives ed a dirty look

Karnak tears envelope edge. Blows into hole. opens envelope. reads contents of envelope

"WHAT ARE TWO THINGS NOBODY READS"

My head is not exploding. If Newsweak readers give any value to what he has to say I'd be surprised. Maybe kos can hire Ron Paul's old ghostwriter to liven things up a bit.

Unintentionally funny quote of the day:

"We have always sought to represent a diversity of views in Newsweek, and we think Markos will be a great part of that tradition," said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham.

They just don't get it.

RIP, MSM.

It is the Washington Post co that owns Newsqueak, isn't it?

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re: #64 NoSubmission

Newsweek?

People still read week-old news?

Now that is a succinct appraisal of the condition in which the contemporary (accent on the temporary) MSM finds itself. Bravisimo.

re: #66 shug

karnak Holds envelope up to head

"DAILY KOS"
"NEWSWEEK"

Ed mcmahon...."Daily Kos......Newsweek"

karnak gives ed a dirty look

Karnak tears envelope edge. Blows into hole. opens envelope. reads contents of envelope

"WHAT ARE TWO THINGS NOBODY READS"

Shug Rules!

It is the money. The lefties are finding a way to support him

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re: #73 big L

It is the money. The lefties are finding a way to support him

Yup.
Picture Markos, had he lived before the internet.....sort of a Maynard G. Krebbs charater.
"Work?!?!"

Anyone said it yet?
ok, ok......let me do the honors!

ROVE YOU MAGNIFICANT BASTARD!

bwahahahahaaaaa...

can't wait to see how his first article plays out. Any guesses to the title?

" Army kills babies" or maybe " Bush makes mistake, forked tail shows", or perhaps..." blogs like Daily Kos are the real voice of America".

bwahahahahah. idiots.

re: #61 RobCon

The MSM keeps on inflating this guy like a blow up doll.

And you don't want to know where the valve is.

re: #47 JammieWearingFool

Newsweek is also in bed with MessNBC, correct? Can't wait for the Olberdunce-Kos convergence.

I've been too busy snickering for my head to explode.

BTW, anyone have an idea who the "conservative" is they'll be adding?

Alan Colmes

Don't forget the Washington Post has already been a forum for the "mainstream" Kos.

He also opined on the dragon lady there.

Hillary Clinton has a few problems if she wants to secure the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. She is a leader who fails to lead. She does not appear "electable." But most of all, Hillary has a Bill Clinton problem. (And no, it's not about that. )

Moving into 2008, Republicans will be fighting to shake off the legacy of the Bush years: the jobless recovery, the foreign misadventures, the nightmarish fiscal mismanagement, the Katrina mess, unimaginable corruption and an imperial presidency with little regard for the Constitution or the rule of law. Every Democratic contender will be offering change, but activists will be demanding the sort of change that can come only from outside the Beltway.

Hillary Clinton leads her Democratic rivals in the polls and in fundraising. Unfortunately, however, the New York senator is part of a failed Democratic Party establishment -- led by her husband -- that enabled the George W. Bush presidency and the Republican majorities, and all the havoc they have wreaked at home and abroad.

Expect a fawning column completely contradicting this one.

I hear their first story will involve a soldier who claims they make fun of disfigured women, target dogs while driving armored transport vehicles, and wear the skulls of children under their helmets.

re: #75 mean Gene

re: #73 big L
Picture Markos, had he lived before the internet.....sort of a Maynard G. Krebbs charater.
"Work?!?!"

Weird coincidence. My son's high school is putting on Dobie Gillis as their fall play this weekend.

re: #70 lawhawk

re:

re: #77 Ward Cleaver

re: #61 RobCon

The MSM keeps on inflating this guy like a blow up doll.

And you don't want to know where the valve is.

Posts like this are the reason I don't eat or drink while reading.

I prefer a spew free experience

re: #49 bp sf

zombie has a great pic of the Kos-Sucker on the Folsom Street Fair page.

He looks so cute in those patent leather thigh high boots.

His lil' sperm bank of a rump is adorable!

"Little sperm bank of a rump" I gotta write that one down. I'll be wearing it out. LOL.

re: #68 comment #17.1

Unintentionally funny quote of the day:

"We have always sought to represent a diversity of views in Newsweek, and we think Markos will be a great part of that tradition," said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham.

They just don't get it.

RIP, MSM.

The editors will have to replace their keyboards, after the asterisk keys wear out in a week (f***, f***, f***, etc.).

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re: #78 tommygum

re: #47 JammieWearingFool

Newsweek is also in bed with MessNBC, correct? Can't wait for the Olberdunce-Kos convergence.

I've been too busy snickering for my head to explode.

BTW, anyone have an idea who the "conservative" is they'll be adding?

Alan Colmes

Skeletor & Kos. I like it!

Just what Newsweek needs. A columnist who types expletives in ALL CAPS.

Newsweek loses 1/2 million subscribers?

HAHAHAHA
Kos coverage should bring it down even more!

re: #19 Defector01

Just hire him to do 'hard hitting commentary' and turn the cartoon area over to Ted Rall and get it over with.

Maybe then they'll die quick and painlessly as opposed to slow and painful

Also, the quicker their collective death is, the less nauseating for us it will be.

the stalls in the mens room at the minneoapolis airport has a larger readership than newsweek.

Perhaps it's a shrewd business move and they're simply trying to appeal to their homosexual demographic.

Since this is a media thread, ponder the following:

If CBSNews writers go on strike, will anyone notice?

Here in New York, it would affect WCBS 880 AM and WCBS FM, the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" and "The Early Show" - along with all Ch. 2 newscasts.

Radio station 1010 WINS is also owned by CBS - but wouldn't be affected, since its writers work under a different contract.

"Hopefully, this will make CBS a little more willing to negotiate, since a strike is an option for us," Goldman said.

"CBS News is prepared for the possibility of a writers' strike," a CBS spokeswoman said yesterday.

"We will continue to produce quality news programs for our viewers."

*cough*

re: #89 Le_Patriot

re: #87 Ward Cleaver

re: #78 tommygum

re: #47 JammieWearingFool

Newsweek is also in bed with MessNBC, correct? Can't wait for the Olberdunce-Kos convergence.
I've been too busy snickering for my head to explode.

BTW, anyone have an idea who the "conservative" is they'll be adding?

Alan Colmes

Skeletor & Kos. I like it!

I just had a vision of Kos standing over Skelty yelling " I HAVE THE POWER! ", while Skelty looks at his crotch. Can I say that here? Crotch?

/ heheheheh....he said "crotch"...hehehehe......calm down Beavis!

heh

Funny how things they consider a great triumph, I dont really give two shits about in the first place. Havent read Newsweek in years, dont plan on getting it in the future

re: #86 Owl

re:

The Washington Post Compost Co. (NYSE: WPO), which owns Newsweek, reported a 1.1 percent drop in third-quarter profit earlier this week, led by declines at its print divisions, including the Washington Post newspaper and Newsweek.

Bwahahaha

re: #60 BrianA

Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company. Nuff said.

Yeah, and I guess Wall Street has heard about the new Kolumnist.

/maybe kos meant 'stock-traders heads would be exploding'

Do people still buy weekold new york times posing as "News Magazines".

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re: #93 lawhawk

If CBSNews writers go on strike, will anyone notice?

Yeah, but maybe we'd be better off if the news-makers went on strike.

Actually . . . a potentially very shrewd business move by Newsweek.

Newsweek needs subscribers . . . and while Kos likely won't drive away any existing subscribers, it will likely boost subscriptions . . . no doubt Kos will encourage his lemmings to follow.

re: #93 lawhawk

Since this is a media thread, ponder the following:

Newsweek has been hemmoraghing readers for years

Guess they figure, now that their pathetic partisan hackery is out of the closet, might as well go the whole nine, cash in on what their marketers and PR team have no doubt described as the "phenomena of KOS" and his 10 billion hits a second

re: #99 SlartyBartfast

re: #60 BrianA

Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company. Nuff said.

Yeah, and I guess

re: #89 Le_Patriot

Newsweek loses 1/2 million subscribers?

HAHAHAHA
Kos coverage should bring it down even more!

Yes, the next chapter number to be developed will be 11.

Newsweak hiring KOS to write liberal nonsense for them is like NYT hiring MoDo to write liberal nonsense for NYT - oh, wait, NYT already has MoDo and dozens of other barking moonbats writing liberal nonsense for them. Where is the head exploding factor? Just normal MSM happenings.

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At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this, but last time I checked, my head was still very much intact.

And in any event, you aren't a wingnut.

I will go out on a limb and predict Kos's first contribution to Newsweak will go something like this.

Screw them. BushMchallibuton/CheneyBlackwater all suck. Progessive Progressive. Grass roots! surrender to our new overlords.

Will Kos write fake stories about Korans being flushed?

Just checked, head still intact. I'll check later, too, just to be sure.

Her in Phoenix MessNBC is channel 65. Because of this discussion, I remembered that by pushing "menu," "channel select," "skip," I could eliminate MessNBC from the channel-flip mode. Thanks all. By the way, Paul Krugman was on CNBC yesterday as a "guest commentator." It was painful to watch him try to hatch a thought during their discussion.

I see this as a kind of positive.

The continued admission by leftist news sources that they provide more partisan commentary than news will accelerate the death of the myth of press objectivity.

The sooner it dies, the sooner it can be replaced by people who actually give a damn what the facts are.

Not that such a result is guaranteed, but some chance is better than none.

In other periodical news, People Magazine just named their Sexiest Man Alive - Matt Damon. Once again, I failed to make the cut. What's it gonna take?!?

OT, but too good not to post:

Making connections:
Activist sets up telephone talks between US, Iranian citizens

A Somerville peace activist with a knack for political theater set up a display yesterday with a simple proposition: Let anyone who passed by pick up the phone and talk to Iranian citizens, giving regular citizens in both countries a chance to do what the activist said the country's leaders have failed to do: talk to each other.

But the comity dissipated when Walsh switched topics: "What's Iran's problem with Israel?"

As Walsh became agitated, Jehlen encouraged him to pass the phone to the next person.

Good thing he didn't ask about gays and lesbians.

re: #103 nolocon

Actually . . . a potentially very shrewd business move by Newsweek.

Newsweek needs subscribers . . . and while Kos likely won't drive away any existing subscribers, it will likely boost subscriptions . . . no doubt Kos will encourage his lemmings to follow.

KOS members will not subscribe - reading hard copy is not part of their lifestyle of instant gratification.

This calls for my wishes to Newsweak in Arabic (and Hebrew slang):

A Daily Koos-Amak to all of you.

(Amak= "your mother"/"your mother's")
(Kus/Koos = coarse word for a certain part of the female anatomy)

"Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this"

Exploding? Well, maybe n a paroxysm of laughter.

Its actually a match made in heaven, the ever increasingly irrelevant Markos teamed up with the ever increasingly irrelevant NewsWeak. What more could you ask for.

Newsweak needs to hire more Kos kiddies so that their chapter 11 filing can happen sooner.

Crappy magazine hires crappy pundit. Yawn.

Kos: " So, President Thompson, what did you know and when did you know it?"
President Thompson: THWACK!

/ markos needs a nose job

What more could you ask for.

RON PAUL 11!1!1!1!1

ok, that's really getting old, i know, i know. :) But you ASKED!

You've got to admire Moulitsas' ability to fail upward.

Again, OT but it's Good News:

Visa denied for South African scholar

BOSTON -- The U.S. government has denied a visa for a South African scholar and political commentator, claiming he "engaged in a terrorist activity" -- an accusation he vehemently denies.

Adam Habib, a deputy vice chancellor at the University of Johannesburg, has been an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq and the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston in September, the American Civil Liberties Union said U.S. authorities were letting his visa application langui