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Kos and Effect: A Lesson in (Tortured) Logic from the Founder of the Daily Kos

By Troy Senik
Thursday, September 09 2010

Markos Moulitsas has a thesis, which is downright adorable coming from the founder of the Daily Kos, the liberal website that reads like it was written by Noam Chomsky’s id. That thesis? Conservatives are rough moral equivalents to Islamic extremists.

Lest this seem like right-wing sensationalism, let Moulitsas’ words speak for themselves. In the opening of his new book, "American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right," he writes:

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