This idiot keeps digging himself a hole doesn’t he? Markos Moulitsas, the original Kos Blogger (derogatory term meaning dumbass), was interviewed on CNN (surprise surprise) and said the following:
KURTZ: Now as you know, “National Review’s” Byron York resurrected a quote from you, this was after four American contractors were killed in Iraq in 2004. The quote was, I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They are there to wage war for profits, screw them. You dealt with this at the time and you expressed regret. My question is, are you prepared for the extra scrutiny that comes with this higher profile you have, whether you particularly want to be out there as the symbol of the blogging movement or not?
MOULITSAS: Absolutely. To me in a way it’s funny that they have not updated their talking points in two years. And so they want to keep resurrecting an old quote, there’s nothing I can do about it. What I can do is I can say the fact is the reason, the context for that quote was solidarity with my brothers and sisters in arms, Marines and soldiers. I wore combat boots. I served during the first Gulf war and people are making a choice between private armies and mercenaries. I make my choice. I stand behind our men and women in uniform and I’m not going to apologize for that. But they’re going to keep resurrecting that and that’s fine. That’s what they do. They smear, they attack, they don’t like the fact that people are getting engaged in politics, that people are getting involved. There are too many turf to protect so they’ll keep doing that and that’s fine. I can fight back.
If you can stand looking at this little twerp (how in the world our military ever allowed such a pathetic small little fool into the service is beyond me) you can watch the interview:
Funny how he makes it sound as if he was actually over in Kuwait at the time. Don’t you get that impression? But wait a minute, he has already stated to the KOSKiddies that he never served over there. He may have been in the service but never saw combat.
But those 4 contractors who were killed and mutilated, lets look at their service:
- Michael Teague – 12-year Army veteran who earned a Bronze Star for service in Afghanistan and also served in Panama and Grenada.
- Scott Helvenston – He enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and then became the youngest-ever graduate of SEAL training. He spent the next 12 years as a SEAL.
- Wesley Batalona – Joined the Army in 1974 and took part in the 1989 invasion of Panama, the first Gulf War and the 1993 humanitarian mission to Somalia.
- Jerry Zovko, he joined the Army in 1991 at age 19. was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division.
Those were the “mercenaries” he cared little for. These guys were his fellow Americans who did more to serve this country in 5 minutes then KOS ever did in his whole life.
This quote is especially funny:
MOULITSAS: Absolutely. To me in a way it’s funny that they have not updated their talking points in two years. And so they want to keep resurrecting an old quote, there’s nothing I can do about it.
Hmmm, lets see….the lefties continually talk about:
- Bush Lied, People Died
- War For Israel
- Haliburton
- Bushitler
- Neo-Cons
- Culture Of Corruption
And on and on….Who exactly hasn’t updated their talking points?
Lets not even mention the fact that KOS and his partner in crime, Jerome Armstrong, are in a bit of hot water:
Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner is deemed a darling of the liberal blogosphere — and the “runaway winner” of the “pre-Iowa caucus” that was the YearlyKos convention, in the words of Arianna Huffington — largely because of his relationship with Jerome Armstrong, a pioneer among Democratic bloggers who founded MyDD.com and who inspired Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos to become a blogger. Warner hired Armstrong to serve as his liaison to the Democratic “netroots,” and it seems to be working.
But many observers have pointed to the relationship between Moulitsas and Armstrong — they once formed a political consulting firm together, and they co-authored the recent book “Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics” — to explain why the antiwar Moulitsas speaks so highly of Warner, who is a blank slate on the Iraq war and who is affiliated with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council that Moulitsas claims to loathe. “In the comments section of several blogs, readers have charged that Armstrong has traded on his reputation — and his friendship with Moulitsas and other bloggers at MyDD — to further his political consulting business,” Michael Scherer wrote in a Salon profile of Armstrong last month.
Armstrong and Moulitsas also worked as consultants to Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, and Dean’s former head of Internet outreach, Zephyr Teachout, sparked a blog tizzy last year when she wrote on her (now defunct) personal blog that the Dean campaign paid the two men in an effort “to buy their airtime.” Teachout wrote:
On Dean’s campaign, we paid Markos and Jerome Armstrong as consultants, largely in order to ensure that they said positive things about Dean. We paid them over twice as much as we paid two staffers of similar backgrounds, and they had several other clients. … While they ended up also providing useful advice, the initial reason for our outreach was explicitly to buy their airtime. To be very clear, they never committed to supporting Dean for the payment — but it was very clearly, internally, our goal.
Moulitsas dismissed Teachout’s posting as a “non-story,” and he noted that he posted a disclaimer on Daily Kos stating that he worked for Dean for the duration of the contract. Armstrong, for that matter, quit blogging while he worked for Dean. But their disclosures were somewhat haphazard — posted on separate pages like this one — and after the campaign ended, they didn’t always disclose their past financial relationship with Dean, leading some people to compare the blog boomlet they helped create for Dean to the work of online bulletin-board posters who touted dodgy Internet stocks during the boom market without disclosing that they were being paid for their words.
Which, interestingly, is precisely what the Securities and Exchange Commission, in court documents filed last August, alleges that Jerome Armstrong did in 2000. (The original S.E.C. complaint is here.) In a subsequent filing, the S.E.C. alleges that “there is sufficient evidence to infer that the defendants secretly agreed to pay Armstrong for his touting efforts” on the financial Web site Raging Bull.
Without admitting or denying anything, Armstrong has agreed to a permanent injunction that forbids him from touting stocks in the future. The S.E.C. remains in litigation with him over the subject of potential monetary penalties.
Donkey Cons made some excellent points here:
it’s as plain as day what has been going on. Once the Kos/MyDD team had established themselves as left-wing kings of the blogosophere, with more traffic than God, they figured out they could sell that traffic to aspiring candidates. They’re brokers between the candidates and the “base” as I explained:
Kos is a paid political consultant. He is getting paid good money to promote these loser candidates. He’s come up with the ultimate scam, because the middle-aged dimwit campaign bosses and elderly liberal contributors don’t know anything about “this whole cyber-doohickey” and Kos has convinced them that it’s a one-way ticket to Winner City.
This explains the extreme sensitivity about his reputation: Kos’s scam depends on (a) left-wingers trusting him as an honest advocate for liberal causes and candidates, and (b) campaigns trusting him as as a genius consultant who has discovered, in the form of Internet activism, the magic bullet that will defeat the GOP.
If, on the other hand, the “netroots” figure out that Kos is a hired gun, and Democratic candidates and campaign chiefs figure out that Kos is selling them a left-wing pipe dream … good-bye, gravy train! So whenever he’s challenged, he gets angry: You’re threatening his livelihood.
Now who exactly are the money hungry mercenaries here?
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Scott Helvenston was a good friend of Michael Yon, All I kneed to know on that account.