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The '''Daily Kos''' is a [[Leftist|left-wing]] [[blog]] that features advertisements like "DraftGore.Com ... Sign Our Petition" with a picture of a smiling [[Al Gore]] in front of what appears to be an image of the Earth from outer space.<ref>viewed Feb. 25, 2007.</ref> It also features a picture of [[President of the United States of America|President]] [[George W. Bush]] with a large cartoon cowboy hat.
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The '''Daily Kos''' is a [[Leftist|left-wing]] [[blog]] that features advertisements like "DraftGore.Com ... Sign Our Petition" with a picture of a smiling [[Al Gore]] in front of what appears to be an image of the Earth from outer space.<ref>viewed Feb. 25, 2007.</ref> It also features a picture of [[President of the United States of America|President]] [[George W. Bush]] with a large cartoon cowboy hat.
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Entries on this blog on February 25, 2007 range from gossip (such as teaser about eviscerating coverage of [[Mitt Romney]]'s polygamist ancestors) to subjective vulgarity.
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Entries on this blog on February 25, 2007 range from gossip (such as teaser about "eviscerating coverage of [[Mitt Romney]]'s polygamist ancestors") to vulgarity and use of four-letter words.
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CBS News has recently suggested that supposedly liberal blogs (not necessarily the ''Daily Kos'') may be hurting their favored candidates, as they may provide some political "dirt" for the other side:<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/opinion/main2507660.shtml</ref>  
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CBS News has recently suggested that liberal blogs (not necessarily the ''Daily Kos'') may be their favored candidates own worst enemies, as they provide ample political fodder for the other side:<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/opinion/main2507660.shtml</ref>  
    
: [A] former aide to Joe Lieberman advised the party to refuse bloggers access and "deny them jobs that confer party approval." ... [P]lenty of Democrats were upset with the netroots.  
 
: [A] former aide to Joe Lieberman advised the party to refuse bloggers access and "deny them jobs that confer party approval." ... [P]lenty of Democrats were upset with the netroots.  
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This statement on behalf of Lieberman was, of course, ironic, considering he no longer identifies with the Democratic party himself, and ran in the general election on a separate party line named "Connecticut for Lieberman," having been denied the Democratic party's nomination.
 
This statement on behalf of Lieberman was, of course, ironic, considering he no longer identifies with the Democratic party himself, and ran in the general election on a separate party line named "Connecticut for Lieberman," having been denied the Democratic party's nomination.
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[[Bill O'Reilly]] has recently leading a campaign against the Daily Kos, and claimed that despite the fact that some Americans may disagree with its views, most of the Democratic candidates for president were at its yearly convention, the Yearly Kos, including [[Barack Obama]], [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[John Edwards]]
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[[Bill O'Reilly]] has recently begun standing up to Daily Kos, and pointed out that despite the fact that many Americans may be repulsed by its ultra-liberal views, nearly all of Democrats candidates for president were at its yearly convention, including [[Barack Obama]], [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[John Edwards]]
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Daily Kos makes a pretense of allowing a wide range of views to be discussed under the claim of a "big tent" policy but in reality views which deviate from liberal orthodoxy are quickly shouted down, given thought-stopping labels like "concern troll", met with abusive "troll rating" and banning from the site, or met with a flood of apparently coordinated diaries posted by Daily Kos' front page diarists heavily pushing the liberal orthodoxy's view of the issue.  This is especially the case with those issues like [[immigration]] and [[abortion]] where there are significant numbers of Democrats who do not agree with the received liberal orthodoxy on those issues.  Similarly, Daily Kos has been in the forefront of an apparently coordinated campaign to defame and slander Republican candidate for President [[Ron Paul]], and populist TV commentator [[Lou Dobbs]].  Oddly, Daily Kos and Markos' hand-picked front page diarists also engage in the same coordinated defamation of some figures from the Democratic party's own left wing, such as [[Mike Gravel]] and [[Dennis Kucinich]], and non-Democrat left wingers like [[Ralph Nader]], indicating that Daily Kos may be an operation by the Democrat Party establishment masquerading as grassroots but in actuality designed to promote orthodox Democrat candidates like [[Hillary Clinton]] who are anything but grassroots.  In particular, Daily Kos is a haven for anti-[[Christian]] hatred and bias against religion.  Markos also claims to be a "[[Libertarian]] Democrat" and to be pro-[[gun rights]], but hypocritically allows anti-gun hate groups like the Brady Campaign to advertise on Daily Kos, and allows his hand-picked front page diarists to rail against "gun nuts" and the [[NRA]].  His claim to be a "Libertarian Democrat" was widely ridiculed and criticized by real Libertarians, who noted that Markos knows little to nothing about Libertarian philosophy and diametrically opposes it on many counts.
      
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