From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daily Kos
Daily Kos
Daily Kos tent management system referred to as "DK 4.0". In 2009,
Time magazine listed the Daily Kos in its "Most Overrated
Blogs" section.[3] Despite the listing, Time magazine read-
ers named the Daily Kos the second best blog.[4]
Content
Moulitsas and a small group of select contributors post
directly to the front page; other users can post "diaries",
the titles of which appear on the front page in reverse
chronological order, with special attention and longer
display time for those diaries highly recommended by
other users. The other major source of content is the
comments posted in response to front page entries and
URL DailyKos.com diaries. Comments for popular or controversial diaries or
front page articles can run into the thousands.
Commercial? Yes
Front page entries and diaries often take the form of
Type of site Political blog a news story from an outside source interspersed with
commentary from the author of the diary or post. Some-
language(s)
Available language(s) English
times these stories contain a request for action from oth-
Created by Markos Moulitsas er members of the community, such as to get involved
with a particular campaign, give money to a candidate
Launched 2002
or contact an elected official about an issue. Some front
Alexa rank 4029 (September 2011)[1] page entries are called "open threads", which encourage
Current status Active people to post comments on any issue. One of the ver-
sions of these open threads are "live threads" of com-
Daily Kos ( /ˈkoʊs/) is an American political blog that mentary on important events happening in real time,
publishes news and opinions from a progressive point such as debates or elections.
of view. It functions as a discussion forum and group Administrators have the ability to edit or delete di-
blog for a variety of netroots activists, whose efforts are aries, though this is done rarely. "Trusted users" have
primarily directed toward influencing and strengthening the ability to recommend or hide responses posted by or-
the Democratic Party. Additionally, the site features a dinary members whose comments they deem solely dis-
participatory political encyclopedia ("DKosopedia"), ruptive. Less than 0.01% of comments are hidden.
glossaries, and other content. Daily Kos had previously partnered with Research
Daily Kos was founded by Markos Moulitsas (Kos from 2000 to produce nonpartisan polling for presidential,
the last syllable of his first name, his nickname while in congressional and gubernatorial races across the coun-
the military) in 2002. In 2007, its parent company, Kos try. In June 2010, Daily Kos terminated the relationship
Media, LLC, began a fellowship program to help fund a after finding their data showed statistical anomalies con-
new generation of progressive activists. About a dozen sistent with deliberate falsification[5] and announced its
contributing editors provide content for the site, with intention to sue the polling firm.[6][7]
three to four new editors being chosen from the Daily Kos On November 30, 2010, an agreement to a settlement
community every year. began as lawyers for the Plaintiff filed a status report in-
As of January 2010, Daily Kos had an average weekday dicating that both parties were in "agreement as to the con-
traffic of hundreds of thousands of visits.[2] It is finan- tours of a proper settlement but are still in the process of de-
cially sustained by advertising, with Google AdSense and termining whether the execution of the proposed terms is feasi-
Blogads. The ads focus mostly on activist causes, media, ble."[8] In May 2011, the Huffington Post reported that the
and political candidates. Members can also purchase an lawsuit had been settled with Research 2000 pollster Del
ad-free subscription to the site if they want. Ali making payments to Daily Kos.[9]
The website ran on the Scoop content management
system until 2011 when it moved to its own custom con-
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Contributors • Linda Stender •
•
Ned Lamont
Jim Martin
• Lois Murphy
Prominent contributors
• Scudder
Numerous political figures use Daily Kos to publish fre- Parker
quent or occasional content, including consultants, can- • Gilda Reed
didates, and sitting members of Congress. Prominent • Jeff
posters include: Seemann
Current & Former • Jon Consultants • Ron
officeholders Tester [31] • David Shepston
• Mark Begich[10] • Mark "Mudcat" • Jonathan
• Earl Warner[32] Saunders Tasini
Blumenauer[11] • Henry • David Sirota • Bill Winter
• Debra Bowen [12] Waxman • Larry LaRocco
• Barbara • Jim Webb[33] • Jerry Contributing editors
Boxer[13] • Anthony Northington
List encompasses so-called "front-pagers," both past and
• Mark B. Weiner • Barry Welsh
present.
Cohen[14] • Robert • Alexi
• Angry Mouse (Kaili Joy Gray)
• Steve Cohen[15] Wexler Giannoulias
• BarbinMD (Barbara Morrill)
• John Conyers[16] • Lynn Commentators
• brownsox (Arjun Jaikumar)
• Richard Woolsey • A. Whitney
• DarkSyde (Steven Andrew)
Durbin[17] • Rocky Brown
• DavidNYC (David Nir)
• Russ Feingold[18] Anderson[34] • Michael
• DemFromCT (Greg Dworkin)
• Bart Gordon[19] • Birch Moore
• Devilstower (Mark Sumner)
• Alan Grayson Bayh[35] • Keith
• DHinMI (Dana Houle)
• Christine • Chris Bell[36] Olbermann[45]
• georgia10 (Georgia Logothetis)
Gregoire[20] • Jimmy • Michael
• hekebolos (Dante Atkins)
• Tom Harkin[21] Carter[37] Schiavo[46]
• Hunter (Michael Lazzaro)
• Jane Harman[22] • Jon • Sam Seder
• Jed L (Jed Lewison)
• Steve Kagen[23] Corzine[38] • Cindy
• Kagro X (David Waldman)
• John Kerry[24] • John Sheehan
• mcjoan (Joan McCarter)
• Larry Kissell[25] Edwards[39] Authors
• Meteor Blades (Timothy Lange)
• Jim McDermott • Ted • David Brin
• MissLaura (Laura Clawson)
• Jeff Merkley Kennedy[40] • Bob
• Plutonium Page (Page van der Linden)
• Brad Miller • Bob Altemeyer
• Scout Finch (Jennifer Bruenjes)
• Jim Moran Kerrey[41] • John Dean
• smintheus (Michael Clark)
• Chris Murphy • Eric • R. A.
• Steve Singiser
• Barack Massa[42] Salvatore
• SusanG (Susan Gardner)
Obama[26] • Eliot
• Trapper John (Jake McIntyre)
• Frank Pallone Spitzer[43]
• Turkana (Laurence Lewis)
• David • Tom
Paterson[27] Vilsack[44]
• Nancy Pelosi Former
Guest bloggers
• Tom Perriello candidates Beginning in 2003, as his blog expanded to a community,
• Jared Polis • Pete Kos appointed four or five "guest bloggers" (also called
• Harry Reid Ashdown "front page diarists," "contributing editors," "front-
• Andrew Rice • Lt. Col. pagers," and simply "FPers") who are selected from the
• Bill Richardson Charlie community and tasked with regular contributions on the
• Ciro D. Brown front page (without needing to have their articles recom-
Rodriguez • Jack Carter mended or promoted).
• Brian • Wesley • : Billmon; Steve Soto; Steve Gilliard; RonK, Seattle
Schweitzer[28][29] Clark • : Meteor Blades; DHinMI; Melanie; Trapper John;
• Chuck Schumer • Paul Hackett theoria; DemFromCT
• Louise Slaughter • Lois Herr • : DavidNYC; kid oakland; Hunter; Armando; a gilas
• Ron Sparks[30] • John Laesch girl; Plutonium Page [47]
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• : georgia10; SusanG; mcjoan; DarkSyde; Superribbie collected $50,000 in pledges to allow him to continue to
(announced as a front-pager, but backed out the next write Cheers & Jeers as a full-time paid position.
day, citing time constraints) [48] On June 2, 2007, Steve Gilliard, one of the blog’s origi-
• : BarbinMD; Kagro X; Devilstower; MissLaura nal contributors, died at the age of 42.
• : brownsox; Scout Finch; smintheus; Jed L.
• : Steve Singiser
Additionally, while on the promotional tour for Crashing
Campaign fundraising
the Gate, Kos turned over much of the day-to-day man- During the 2004 U.S. election campaign, Daily Kos readers
agement to the 2006 guest bloggers. Emeritus guest blog- gave approximately $500,000 in user donations to fifteen
gers have frequently retained some privileges depending Democratic candidates denoted as most needing funds.
on circumstances, but are not expected to post as often. The candidates were Tony Miller, Ben Konop, Daniel
A front-page diarist known as "Armando" (Armando Mongiardo, Richard Romero, Samara Barend, Jeff See-
Lloréns-Sar)[49][50] took a prominent role during Moulit- mann, Nancy Farmer, Ginny Schrader, Jan Schneider,
sas’ book hiatus in 2005 and was well known for his for- Lois Murphy, Jim Newberry, Brad Carson, Tony Knowles,
eign policy and legal analysis. He also had his own polit- Stan Matsunaka and Richard Morrison. All of these can-
ical blogging website, called Swords Crossed, and was a didates lost. However, Moulitsas had stated that he was
guest political commentator in a wide variety of media deliberately selecting candidates who were not receiving
outlets, including The Majority Report and Talking Points significant financial support from other sources; candi-
Memo Cafe. After his identity and details of his legal ca- dates who were expected to win — or even be compet-
reer were made widely known, he announced his depar- itive — were, by and large, already being funded by the
ture from Daily Kos in June 2006, citing loss of anonymi- DNC, DCCC, and other national and regional organiza-
ty.[51] For 2 months, Armando would resurface periodi- tions.[citation needed]
cally, and all of his comments were accompanied by a sig- He also argued that the campaign was successful in
nature line stating that he would be returning to blog- that it forced several Republican incumbents to spend
ging in December 2006. Armando did indeed resurface, time and money defending "safe" seats that they had
albeit under a user ID, "Big Tent Democrat," in September never had to defend before. For example, between Tom
2006. Armando "Big Tent Democrat" then left the Daily DeLay in Texas and Marilyn Musgrave in Colorado,
Kos site again in March 2007, citing "differences with the Moulitsas calculates that the seed money provided by the
management." blog’s fundraising tied up well over ten times as much
Another contributor posts pseudonymously as GOP money in return, and kept two of the GOP’s most
"DarkSyde" on the front page of Daily Kos and a blog prolific fundraisers back home campaigning in their own
called Unscrewing the Inscrutable. He is best known as a districts for several weeks each, rather than roaming the
science writer with specific attention paid to biology, as- country raising money for other candidates, as they had
tronomy, and political issues such as creationism or cli- in past elections. At least two of his candidates came ex-
mate change. In particular, DarkSyde’s Hurricane Katri- ceptionally close to winning what would have been sig-
na diaries were widely read during the storm and in the nificant upsets.
immediate aftermath. They are included in a collection Daily Kos led a fundraising campaign again in the
of science articles in the e-book Kosmos: You Are Here, co- 2006 midterm election campaign in conjunction with
written with science fiction novelist Mark Sumner and il- MyDD and Swing State Project. This time around, they
lustrated by paleowildlife artist Carl Buell. All the con- raised over 1.4 million dollars for 17 "Netroots Candi-
tributors to Kosmos donated the proceeds to fund the dates," of which 8 were victorious: Jim Webb (VA-Sen),
YearlyKos convention. Jon Tester (MT-Sen), Tim Walz (MN-01), Joe Sestak
"Bill in Portland Maine" (Bill Harnsberger)[52] is a (PA-07), Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23), Patrick Murphy (PA-08),
front page regular, best known for his recurring Cheers & Jerry McNerney (CA-11), Paul Hodes (NH-02). Several
Jeers feature, in which he bestows plaudits and brickbats other Kos-endorsed candidates came within 3 percentage
on various newsmakers. Cheers & Jeers, which first ap- points of winning: Larry Kissell (NC-08), Gary Trauner
peared on Daily Kos on 9 December 2003, has evolved in- (WY-AL), Linda Stender (NJ-07) and Darcy Burner
to a mini-community within the larger Daily Kos commu- (WA-08). The success of these candidates can be simul-
nity, in which members post announcements about wed- taneously considered a cause and effect of the Democra-
dings, engagements, births, deaths, pet news, and other tic wave in the 2006 election: fundraising on Daily Kos
personal items, as well as sharing their own particular and other progressive / liberal blogs / websites contrib-
plaudits and brickbats. He lives with his partner Michael uted heavily to this and other races, boosting recognition
(known as "Common Sense Mainer"), a cat named Vegas, of Democratic candidates across the board; on the other
and his beloved chocolate lab, Molly. In the fall of 2007, hand, the general anti-Bush, anti-incumbency sentiment
Harnsberger lost his job, and the Daily Kos community across the country[citation needed] helped boost these can-
didates and many others on the Democratic side.
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YearlyKos convention tion that Moulitsas had promptly — and prominently —
disclosed the payment, and that Armstrong had stopped
Main article: Netroots Nation blogging entirely while working for Dean.[63] Joe Trippi
In June 2006, members of Daily Kos organized the first explained in an interview with Dave Winer that he want-
ever political blogger convention, called YearlyKos, in ed Kos so that Kos wouldn’t go work for Clark or anyone
Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was attended by approx- else.[64]
imately 1000[53] bloggers and featured appearances by Meanwhile, Chris Suellentrop of Slate criticized
prominent Democrats such as Senate Minority Leader Moulitsas not for taking money from the Dean campaign
Harry Reid, California Senator Barbara Boxer, General — something he told his readers about — but for working
Wesley Clark, Governors Mark Warner, Bill Richardson, as a political consultant for candidates for whom he
Tom Vilsack and DNC Chair Howard Dean. The event was raised money on his site.[65] Moulitsas refused to disclose
widely covered in the traditional media including Capitol the names of his clients, citing non-disclosure agree-
Hill Blue,[54] The Boston Globe[55] and MSNBC.[56] C-Span al- ments signed with the candidates in question; on the oth-
so carried portions of the convention.[57] er hand, neither his name nor that of Armstrong Zúniga
The event was generally[58] considered a success. LLC has been reported in the Federal Election Commis-
YearlyKos 2007 took place in Chicago in August 2007, at sion financial disclosure forms of any of the "Kos Dozen"
which time it was announced that future conventions candidates.
would be known as Netroots Nation.[59] In 2008, the con- Armstrong Zúniga shut down after the 2004 political
ference was held in Austin, Texas, with a surprise visit cycle, and Moulitsas has done no consulting since then.
from Al Gore. The 2009 conference was held in Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania from August 13–16. Pittsburgh was Fallujah comments
chosen in part due to its environmental merits, as the Daily Kos attracted some controversy in April 2004 by
city is a leader in green building, with more square publishing comments (written by Moulitsas) about the
footage than any other city in the country.[60] In addi- killings of four private military contractors in Fallujah,
tion, the city has a rich labor union history, which also Iraq that many considered to be insensitive:
was a factor in its selection.[61] Let the people see what war is like. This isn’t an
Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush’s
Controversy folly. That said, I feel nothing over the death of
merceneries. [sic] They aren’t in Iraq because of
Dean campaign consultancy orders, or because they are there trying to help the
people make Iraq a better place. They are there to
In 2003, Moulitsas was retained by the Howard Dean cam-
wage war for profit. Screw them.[66]
paign as a technical advisor, an arrangement he disclosed
on the site the next day.[62] A year and a half later, when John Kerry’s official blog removed a link to his blog in re-
Daily Kos criticized Armstrong Williams for accepting sponse.[67] In a subsequent article, Moulitsas attributed
money to promote George W. Bush’s education agenda his remarks to anger that the Blackwater employees in
(including the No Child Left Behind Act), The Wall Street Fallujah were given more attention than the five Marines
Journal reported on the payment to Moulitsas as well as who were killed on the same day, as well as to childhood
a similar payment to Jerome Armstrong.[1] Zephyr Tea- memories of warfare in El Salvador.[68]
chout said,
Conflict between supporters of Obama
On Dean’s campaign, we paid Markos and Jerome
Armstrong as consultants, largely in order to en- and Clinton
sure that they said positive things about Dean. We In early 2008, a major conflict erupted between Daily
paid them over twice as much as we paid two Kos users due to the rivalry between the two Democratic
staffers of similar backgrounds, and they had sev- presidential candidates they supported: Barack Obama
eral other clients. While they ended up also pro- and Hillary Clinton.[69] The New York Times reported,
viding useful advice, the initial reason for our out-
reach was explicitly to buy their airtime. To be very On Friday, it got to be too much for Alegre, a diarist
clear, they never committed to supporting Dean for on the flagship liberal blog DailyKos, who frequent-
the payment — but it was very clearly, internally, ly writes in support of Senator Hillary Rodham
our goal. Clinton. "I’ve put up with the abuse and anger be-
cause I’ve always believed in what our online com-
The Journal reporters have been criticized for equating munity has tried to accomplish in this world," Ale-
the two events (Moulitsas and Armstrong were not jour- gre wrote Friday evening. "No more." Objecting to
nalists) and for "burying" deep in the article the informa- the tone of attacks against Mrs. Clinton and her
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supporters on the blog, the diarist called for a timelines and profiles on political rivals are other
"writers [sic] strike." "This is a strike - a walkout major projects.
over unfair writing conditions at DailyKos. It does Matters.
• Another site created is Congress Matters Congress
not mean that if conditions get better I won’t ’work’ Matters is dedicated to "watching, learning,
at DailyKos again," Alegre wrote, promising to analyzing and discussing the daily activities of the
come back only "if we ever get to the point where Congress." The site is run by David Waldman (known
we’re engaging each other in discussion rather by his username ’Kagro X’).[72]
than facing off in shouting matches."[70]
ABC News senior correspondent Jake Tapper described See also
the disagreement: • MyDD
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