Portrait of a Blogger
Washington Monthly has a long profile of Markos of Daily Kos in its upcoming issue. Writer Benjamin Wallace-Wells traveled to Berkely to do an in-depth article. Is it favorable? Yes and no, but mostly yes. It's more like Wells is still scratching his head, trying to figure out both Markos and bloggers. It's not a puff piece, but it does give Markos his due for being the world's largest political blogger, for being committed and smart and for remaining down to earth. And it does capture that left-right ideology is not his focus. His goal is for the Democrats to win.
There are a few laudable quotes:
The DCCC's executive director, John Lapp, says that Moulitsas's model is âa signal event in political history, like the Kennedy-Nixon debates, in how it gets people involved.â And Simon Rosenberg, the president of the centrist New Democratic Network (NDN), says that âfrankly I don't think there's anyone who's had the potential to revolutionize the Democratic Party that Markos does.â
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