Shhh! There Might Be a Scandal at Kos

I find this item very amusing. As you know, whenever there's even the hint of scandal, whether real or perceived, in the GOP or the Bush Administration, the wacky left blogs go nuts and every sort of conspiracy theory gets aired ad nauseum. Just look at the way they've been drooling over the thought of an indictment of Karl Rove, and there are still sites that insist that he was indicted but know one will admit it. Pure moonbat stuff.

Well, over at the mother ship of the wacky left, the DailyKos, some rumors have started floating around that a couple of the principals of that site are involved in a pay-for-play scam whereby politicians must demonstrate their financial support to Kos in order to get an endorsement from the head lefty. Some of this is based on past allegations of questionable stock touting by a Kos partner, and the scrutiny of that activity by the SEC (Powerline has the details).

Head Kos guy Markos Moulitsas apparently isn't enjoying the sudden scrutiny, and in a response totally out of character with the way the lefty blogs usually operate, is demanding silence. The New Republic got ahold of an email that Markos sent out to other prominent lefty bloggers in an effort to stop the story. The whole email is at Powerline, but I'll just excerpt the last two paragraphs:

This story will percolate in wingnut circles until then, but I haven't gotten a single serious media call about it yet. Not one. So far, this story isn't making the jump to the traditional media, and we shouldn't do anything to help make that happen.

My request to you guys is that you ignore this for now. It would make my life easier if we can confine the story. Then, once Jerome can speak and defend himself, then I'll go on the offensive (which is when I would file any lawsuits) and anyone can pile on. If any of us blog on this right now, we fuel the story. Let's starve it of oxygen. And without the "he said, she said" element to the story, you know political journalists are paralyzed into inaction.

Unfortunately for Markos, at least one of his lefty friends leaked the email, and that last paragraph is like waving a red flag at a bull as far as the mainstream press is concerned. The question is, will anyone follow-up and investigate the story? There may be nothing to it, but if a conservative site were involved in this sort of allegation, every major media outlet and moonbat lefty site would be devoting full-time to it.

It's worth a look.

UPDATE Kos responds to The New Republic:

There was one big rule for this list, an important cog in the growing Vast Left Wing Conspiracy -- everything discussed was off the record.

That was obviously violated today as the New Republic betrayed, once again, that it seeks to destroy the new people-powered movement for the sake of its Lieberman-worshipping neocon owners; that it stands with the National Review and wingnutoshpere in their opposition to grassroots Democrats.

As Hugh Hewitt says:

Now, does Kos' line about the magazine's "Lieberman-worshipping neocon owners" get close to whispering "the Jooos did it"?

You know how the left loves their conspiracies.