Politics And Who Was That “Seattle Alt Weekly Reporter”? Ahem.
posted by on February 20 at 17:15 PM
Over at DailyKos, the big Kos himself has returned to the topic of his once having called Maureen Dowd a “catty, insecure bitch.”
I got in trouble during last year’s YearlyKos when, exhausted and with my guard down, I told a Seattle alt weekly reporter that Maureen Dowd was a “catty, insecure bitch”. I shouldn’t have called her a “bitch”, but she was catty and insecure while interviewing me…
That alt-weekly reporter would be me. And, for the record, even though Maureen Dowd and Kos apparently exchanged emails after that comment, I appear to have been frozen out — frozen out! — of Kos’s email in-box.
Example: Back in October, long after the event that prompted his “catty bitch” comment, I tried to land an interview with Kos for a story I was writing about one of his favorite Democrats, Jon Tester. No response.
Maybe he was busy, or maybe I got no response because I’m just a Seattle alt-weekly reporter. But if it was because I blogged his quote about Dowd — Then listen, Kos, your big beef with Maureen Dowd is that you feel she misrepresents events and doesn’t quote people accurately. And yet you still email her! And I quote you accurately and you don’t return my emails?
I mean, I know I’m no Maureen Dowd, but come on. Return my email! I’ll even let you call me a name or two off the record if it’ll make you feel better.
I mean, the concept that a big reporter wouldn't accurately report things is just oh, I don't know, shocking. Next thing you know we'll find they lied to us about Iraq and Iran and (next) Ireland.
How's your shoulder feeling, Eli? You've been throwing so many bouquets at yourself lately. Wondering if you dislocated it...
Eli, it depends on which account you email and if he remembers you or not. If you hit the wrong account (i.e., the one he advertises) or he doesn't remember you, he won't respond. Thousands of emails will do that to a guy. Sheesh, get some thick skin.
It's not you. Kos became a catty, insecure bitch shortly after that convention. Anyone who reads DailyKos pre-2004 and now can spot the difference. His posts and the tone of the board are now much more negative, bitchy, and catty. It's too bad, in the Dean days he was on the right track, but now is fast becoming just like the snotty insider he claims to hate in DC.
Jesus, who cares?
Military amputee uninvited from Bush event because the press would see him with no legs
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Thats bullshit. Kos does owe Eli an explanation...
I'd say Kos and Dowd are equally unreadable. They remind me of the people I hated in high school.
You could only hope that Kos would remember you our your worthless blog.
You sound like a stalker instead of a grown-ass man.
I worked for a business Kos complained to at an executive level once (you'll have to take my word for it, but it was bullshit) at a time when I was usually a fan of what he wrote. Having personally received his attacks (lots of "I am REALLY INFLUENTIAL!!!" and "I WENT TO LAW SCHOOL, DAMMIT!!!") chewed him down, in my mind, to the kind of spoiled, D-list celebrities who don't get let into clubs and scream about "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!". He's bullshit, Eli, and you're just feeding a troll.
Kos is not always bullshit sniggles. I think he is just too busy getting off from his cocktail party-msm fight that he cant give time to an alt weekly reporter. People powered what?
Blogging is the extremum of vanity publishing, and vanity publishing is the natural habitat of the narcissus.
Will the universe end with an ultimate slap-fight in the hothouse at the end of the blogosphere?
Nobody cares.
You're right Ralph, but that's kind of what I mean. Like Natasha Lyonne before him, it's difficult to respect people so drunk on the tiniest bit of fame.
Kos' blog, like most mainstream blogs, is too disconnected from the rest of the world for me to take too seriously.
...and Daily Kos is SO. BORING. The headlines might be interesting, but the blog comments look like they were written by 12-year olds (are they?). I read Slog, not necessarily because The Stranger's writing staff is so original or brilliant, but because the posts' comments are very articulate and interesting, compared with the Daily Kos crap.
Damn right you're no Maureen Dowd! And be proud of it!
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