David Brooks has lost it:

Read the full anti-Kos essay here.

Some choice lines: (emp add)

• ... in the land of the Lilliputians, the Keyboard Kingpin must be accorded full respect. [That's you, dear reader. Inhabiting the land of Lilliputians.]
  
  
• The Keyboard Kingpin, aka Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, sits at his computer, fires up his Web site, Daily Kos, and commands his followers, who come across like squadrons of rabid lambs, to unleash their venom on those who stand in the way.
  
  
• But the Sachem of the Blogosphere restrained his mighty wrath and responded with the cleverness for which he is so justly self-adored. [That's Kos, in case you were wondering who the Sachem is.]
  
  
• ... a code of omerta was in order ... [More of Brooks' dark metaphor.]
  
  
• There was a Judas on the listserve ... [Pure evil!]
  
  
• Sounding like Tom DeLay who is his moral doppelgaenger ... [Wow! Equal to DeLay in some way. Parents, hide your children! Kos is in town!]

This essay is a great example of a confused response to a new phenomenon: blogs, that Brooks has little understanding of. He should be sentenced to reading Kos for a month. Perhaps then he will understand that Kos supports a variety of perspectives (both on policy and political action) and is not a tyrant dictating to a servile audience.

In fact, Brooks' essay is so over the top, that it's pretty much a grade-A example of how frightened pundits react to a threat to their careers.


posted by Quiddity at 6/24/2006 11:34:00 PM