BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Anti-Semitism on Daily Kos? -- An Open Letter to Harold Ford (reprinted here - because it needs to be) Dear Mr. Ford, It happened again. We should be used to it by now. The Republicans do it all the time. When we supported Ned Lamont in the primaries last year, Joe Lieberman did it, too. Your friend Bill O'Reilly -- Falafel Boy himself -- and his minions took their shot, even going so far as to call us Nazis and Klansmen. And now it's your turn, Mr. Ford. In your capacity as the chair of the Democratic Leadership Council, you said this morning on Meet the Press that we're a bunch of Jew haters here. My response? Are some individuals here anti-Semites? Sure. I defy you to find any diverse group of 130,000-plus individuals anywhere in the United States that doesn't have some anti-Semitic members. But calling us a blog of anti-Semites based on a handful of bad apples is like calling all Christians bloodthirsty psychopaths because of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, or calli...

WHEN DAILY KOS MET THE DLC - THINK FOR YOURSELVES! A family member recently wrote the below for Daily Kos. It sparked a very lively "conversation" amongst bloggers & armchair pundits. Iddybud makes a great point on her site about political bloggers: A lot of our success, in blogging, has come from the simple fact that we are informed. We commit ourselves to being informed and that, alone, is a powerful tool because it allows us, individually and on a daily basis, to challenge the rhetoric that once slid past the ears of most people and left the discussion concerning the political realities to political junkies and concerned citizens on isolated barstools, street corners, and sitting rooms. Mr. Ford (DLC Chairman) again, went for the lowest common demoninator and continue the spin that so many have actually believed, that says "Daily Kos bloggers are anti-Jewish." Spare me. That's patently false and a smear campaign by the Neocons to keep the Jewish vo...