January 15, 2005

Kos' "Other Clients"

Kos-Teachout yapping continues with a Friday night Slate article. (I guess Chris Suellentrop doesn't take it easy at the end of the week.) Suellentrop goes after Kos, not for his disclosure about being on the Dean, M.D. payroll (he says "those disclosures would be woefully insufficient" if Kos were a journalist), but for those unnamed people he won't tell anyone he worked for.

DailyKos raised money for a dozen congressional candidates this past election. Which, if any, of them paid Moulitsas for the honor of directing his grassroots minions to part with their wallets? If you gave one of Moulitsas' preferred candidates money, wouldn't you like to know if Moulitsas' endorsement was purchased?

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If Moulitsas takes money from political candidates in 2006 and 2008 without telling you who's paying him, stop giving his recommended candidates your dollars. Here's what Moulitsas wrote about payola pundit Armstrong Williams' assertion that "There are others" on the government dole: "Until names are named, we can assume every conservative pundit is on the White House's payola rolls." That's questionable logic, but let's take Moulitsas up on his challenge: Until names are named, we can assume every Daily Kos candidate this past election wrote him a check for his consulting work.

"Blogging for Dollars" [via My View of the World]