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You and me, obviously, were in the less diplomatic corner, but I can tell you I stand by what I said 100% (and I know you do, too). But I can only speculate what affects Kos if anything does. I still think he is one of "us", meaning he's just an ordinary citizen who happened to be good with technology and just had good timing with the blog phenomenon. He's obviously not a brilliant pundit or thinker of our time. He's just one of many, and therefore, I do enjoy engaging and calling him on his bullshit. Like I said before, I really don't think he would ever ban any of us -- that goes against his site's principles, so that's probably why his site is so popular. It's the technology, stupid, not really the ideas. It's up to us to continue to engage with better ideas than Kos and his minions.
Somebody was saying yesterday about how Kos is bad on TV -- you know who is better is Chris Bowers. I mean he still is a jerk, sometimes, too, but he has a look and a cadence to his speaking voice that makes blogs seem . . . cool. That might get more young people interested, and will frankly excite the old pundits, who like everyone else, are attracted to all things young and brand new. I really think Chris should be the guy to be the "blog pundit" on TV -- he should work on speaking on TV, and still stay slightly grungy scruffly (but still clean cut, overall). Then, suddenly it'll be like, oh, it's the Dems who are cool. Just thinking out loud here . . .
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