In a remarkable column in the Washington Post yesterday, E.J. Dionne defends Daily Kos and by extension the Yearly Kos convention this weekend to which the Democratic presidential candidates, with the noble exception of Joe Biden, are progressing to pledge solidarity. Dionne compares the Daily Kos to Rush, missing the essential ingredient in Rush’s show: that it is about argument – entertainingly made – and not about invective. When Tony Snow had a relapse of his cancer, there was a post on the Daily Kos stating indifference as to whether Snow died or not. That has not and would never happen either with Rush, nor with any prominent conservative blog. Of course, making claims for blogs is dangerous since there are an infinite number of them and if one goes far enough into the swamp, one can find an example of anything. Let me just say that no conservative blog with the equivalent prominence of the Daily Kos has in any way the nastiness displayed on Daily Kos. ...(Read Full Post)