The Unknown Candidate: Brooks Goes Blog Slumming

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Brooks Goes Blog Slumming

In Sunday's paper, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks attacks the founder of Daily Kos for acting like a "Kingpin" who "commands his followers" to "unleash their venom on those who stand in the way." [...]

"The Keyboard Kingpin, aka Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, sits at his computer, fires up his Web site, Daily Kos, and commands his followers, who come across like squadrons of rabid lambs, to unleash their venom on those who stand in the way," writes Brooks. "And in this way the Kingpin has made himself a mighty force in his own mind, and every knee shall bow."

Aww, Brooksie, thou protesteth too much. From the rancidity of the venom thou speweth forth, methinks you are a wee jealous of The Keyboard Kingpin. Is not what truly troubles ye the fact that Kos has managed to break through the media clutter, both on and offline? Does it not nettle ye? Poor, poor Brooksie. Worried that your own self-importance is on the wane?

You can read Brooks' transparent attempt at a smear campaign against DailyKos by clicking on the link below:

Respect Must Be Paid
By David Brooks
The New York Times

TimesSelect non-subscribers can read a reprint here.

Photo credit: David Brooks. (The New York Times)

Other Reactions from the Blogosphere:

Daily Kos: The Maturing of David Brooks

PeakDems: Schmuck of the Day
...As David, and all the other right wing bloviators, become more fearful of a fully functioning and full-throated Democratic Party, they will try to smear those that are making a difference in our party, those like Markos Moulitsas Zuniga....

Constructive Interference: The Media are Loosing it

If this report concerning David Brooks' next column is at all true then the media truely are loosing it. Anyone remotely familiar with Daily Kos knows that no one is blindly following Kos. Open criticism and disagreement is the hallmark of Kos, throughout the communinty. Brooks is nuts.