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In reply to the discussion: Excuse Me... But In Many Ways... This ENTIRE SITE Was Founded Over A STOLEN ELECTION [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)in 2002, he roped people in to a very boring blog apparently we now know, with some pretty impressive assistance (I always wondered how he got the attention he got considering how bad a writer he was and he was the only one writing that blog at the time. Especially since there were some great and very popular actual real Democrats writing at the time, who never made a dime nor did they want to)
If you ever saw some of his initial writings, wow, was he different then. He was so humble, so POOR, just a 'guy with a blog' he claimed. Living in a cramped apartment pounding away on his computer, he said with few prospects other than being a computer tech.
And then all of a sudden he was rich. After he roped in all the Liberals who were online at the time, he began purging his blog. Smearing Liberals, slamming progressives. Many people were not fooled by the literal army of 'operatives' who arrived to keep Liberals especially, under control. They posed as ordinary posters, but they were obviously not. And when people questioned them, they were instantly banned.
It's quite a story and amazing that people ever believed this guy was a Liberal. He was and probably still is, anti-abortion, anti-gays in the military (its an education to read his writings on some of this stuff which was dug up by a guy who was banned from DK but who didn't just go away. He was an African American attorney living in SA and was so outraged, he spent a lot of time looking to find out just who this 'kos' really was.
His 'supporters' will insist he 'saw the light' after a lifetime of being a Repub, working for Henry Hyde, being one of those obnoxious righties during the Clinton years. But money talks and he was able to adapt to Clinton after his sudden rise to fame. Lol, Progressives were punked, they were reigned in and kept under control at a time when the Internet was looking like a huge threat to the status quo. A place to organize, to maybe have a say which they could not have on the MSM. DK IS the online version of the MSM. Very controlled as far as the FP.
There's so much more, but his outburst today was probably his job for the day. You don't become a millionaire without working for it. The mystery is why the terror of what was probably nothing more than a stunt? Is the mere mention of Election Fraud so frightening that they send out the big guns to silence people about it? He always banned it on his blog, btw.
Anyhow, it has had the opposite effect. This would have been forgotten had they not gone wild over it. Authoritarians, they always make the same mistakes.