Kosola in Newsweek: Moulitsas goes "berserk"

There is an excellent little piece in Newsweek on DailyKos gatecrasher Moulitsas, and
the essay starts out as a cosmetic sort of flattery until it turns a bit savage.

Ann Althouse lets the air out of his tires and predicts his fizzle factor is extremely high, as he tends towards "belligerence and paranoia" when confronted.

Recently, I was reading about Lenin and his gang of Bolsheviks who grabbed power in 1917 and promptly began killing anyone who disagreed with them in the slightest. Crashing the so-called gate for leftists----oh, well, Althouse does the entire scenario from start to finish:

Kos's writing style -- which has obviously served him well as a blogger up to this point -- sounds angry and crazed to the outsider. It's easy to get him to react with "belligerence and paranoia," and the more successful he is, the more Democrats are motivated to marginalize and disqualify him. Those he's accused of "digging around in my past" have denied that they're doing it, but, really, why wouldn't they be doing it? And why wouldn't part of their strategy be to make him think that they are so they can lure him into displaying more of that "belligerence and paranoia"?

So I assume there is a conspiracy and a strategy to investigate Kos. And it's so easy to do because it can succeed even if it fails to turn anything up, because it will provoke him, and when he reacts, they'll all say he's paranoid, belligerent. Escort that man back outside the gate.

But why is Althouse saying all this? Is she trying to stoke his paranoia and lead him into the very pitfall she's identified? Is she nonpartisan and just calling them as she sees them? Or is she just saying that because she knows that's the kind of assertion that Kos folk are least likely to believe? And is that one more reason to suspect there's a big plot? Look at that line she boldfaced up there. There's a Republican plot and a Democratic plot all converging on poor Mr. Moulitsas.

And if he exhibits these suspicions, he's going to look crazy. And you know what they do to you once they have the material to make you look cra-ray-zee.

Ka-Ray-Zee is the way Armstrong already looks on his astrology observations, but then, I digress. [By the way, I tried to link to the Astrology page where Armstrong opines on Trans-Neptunian influences on the 2000 election, but the Kossacks have evidently closed the offending site and "no page was found," it was up last night when I linked it to yesterday's blog]. The paranoids do work fast!

Remember the old Russian saying during the days of airbrushed pictures in the Soviet Encyclopedia: "The past is hard to predict?" Guess the Kosola affair has the Kossacks repeating the old tricks they learned from their leftie great-grandpa Bolshies!