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Moulitsas says bloggers softening hostility toward Clinton
Hillary Clinton has never been a very popular political figure in the blogosphere. Her original support for the war in Iraq and her unwillingness to apologize for her vote in favor of the war has long been fodder for the liberal bloggers and netroots activists.
But the YearlyKos convention of the netroots got under way Thursday with an important sign that the netroots are warming to the idea of Clinton being the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee.
Well, at least one netroot, the superstar of the blogosphere - Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the DailyKos website, perhaps the most popular blog site in blogosphere, with more than a million visitors each day.
At a news conference helping to kick off the convention in Chicago, Moulitsas said Clinton has shown “growing respect” for the role of the liberal bloggers and netroots in Democratic politics.
He was referring to the fact that Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson had come to the defense of DailyKos and YearlyKos in response to repeated criticism from Bill O’Reilly on Fox News.
Wolfson, in an appearing on The O’Reilly Factor on Tuesday, called DailyKos a “community, hundreds of thousands of people who go to the site every day, who talk to one another, who participate vigorously in our democracy.”
Moulitsas said Thursday that a year ago, there wasn’t that respect within her inner circle. He said there has been a realization within the Clinton camp that “maybe we’re not going to win the blogosphere primary (because) there’s a lot of hostility towards us (but) we want to negate some of that.”
He added: “I think she’s doing that very effectively.”
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