DailyKos getting smeared?

Caught up in a rather odd and troubling scandal, DailyKos is now on the offensive against The New Republic.

All of this is unfolding against several rounds of mainstream blog-bashing (here and here), following the big YearlyKos convention in Vegas two weeks ago. Personally, I would love nothing more than to see DailyKos discredited - I find very little useful "information" over there and the entire Kos viewpoint has infected the liberal mindset in a profound way (not to mention created one of the ugliest and most disorganized layouts you're likely to find in the blogosphere). I am a pretty die-hard reader of TNR, and say what you will, but the viewpoints over there are many times more diverse than what you'll find at DailyKos (or its right-wing equivalents).

There is such a disdain for the mainstream media at Kos, most regular contributors lose sight of the fact that at they are commenting on actual news stories, not writing them. Many bloggers - Andrew Sullivan comes to mind - have deep roots in the mainstream media (as well as TNR), but many of the "grassroots" (sorry, "netroots") bloggers are starting to annoy the shit out of me (the excellent Glenn Greenwald, a frequent critic of TNR, is one of the few exceptions). Anyway, the Democratic party needs to get over its new romance with the blogosphere. If they think their path back to power is paved with high-speed bandwidth, they'd better think again.