Over the course of the past week, I have listened and watched as many of the major media outlets in our nation tried to attack Sarah Palin, especially the New York Times and the various television networks owned by NBC. These obviously biased media outlets decided to run with less-than accurate leads and ended up having to retract some of their stories.
Though never directly tied to any of these stories, the media often passed the blame of these malicious stories off to the “blogosphere”, specifically the Daily Kos. I originally discovered the Daily Kos during the 2004 general election. Like many, I wanted change in the White House and the progressive media was hyped up about this new progressive blog. I checked it out and found it all a bit boring.
Over the next few years, as the Daily Kos became a larger part of the political landscape, I would visit the site from time to time, just to get a feel of what topics were being discussed. I never put much stock in the website, even as an idealistic, self-described “progressive” in college.
I decided to revisit the Daily Kos this week and what I found was quite telling. When Phil Gramm made the statement that the United States had become a “nation of whiners,” he spoke of the people involved with the Daily Kos, and those who support it. For example, look at this discussion involving the Wednesday night festivities at the Republican National Convention.
Several of the Kos readers/responders attack Palin, comparing her to the “popular girl” in high school, which says a lot about them. These are the people who got picked on in high school. They were never able to reconcile this and still live with the scars of being a loser, so they remain losers.
They’re like the kids I played football with on the playground. They provided the new, fancy Nerf football, but when things didn’t go their way, they took their ball and went kicking and screaming to the teachers, “they’re not playing fair.” In life, when things don’t go their way, they go and bitch and moan to the government, “They make more money than me. Boo! Tax them, tax them, make it fair Daddy Government, make it fair!” That’s why they admire Barack Obam; he promises to take from those who have more and give it to those who have less–classic redistribution of wealth.