We don’t read this gentleman as a rule, but RCP linked it, and we found this entertaining:

[T]he 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.

“Lieberman-worshipping neocon owners?” That couldn’t be code or anything, could it? (By the way, this TNR piece seems to indicate that the fellow in question is very full of himself, and looks to be going through some sort of meglomanaical phase of life; so grandiosity and overstatement might be par for the course for him at this moment.)

UPDATE

A response from Marty Peretz, a man whom we can both respect and disagree with from time to time:

A MESSAGE FROM TNR’S LIEBERMAN-LOVING NEOCON OWNER:

I never read Daily Kos until today. Well, now that I’ve read it, the first thought that came to me is how illiterate Kos is, just plain illiterate. There has been other not-with-a-pick-axe-but-with-a-bludgeon left-wing journalism in the English speaking world, the American PM, for example, or the British Tribune. If you look them up (they must be some place on the Web), you’ll see how elegant surgical argument can be. OK, that’s not what the Daily Kos is. Daily Kos is actually a rant, Kos’s own rant and then his comrades.

And his rant against us, well, borders on a nut case’s. When a high-minded or, rather, high-strung moralist is accused by The New York Times of journalistic hanky-panky and then by TNR of running an ideological censorship bureau, reminiscent of the old Catholic Legion of Decency, he will go off the rails. And he did. “This is what The New Republic had evolved into–just another cog of the Vast RIGHT Wing Conspiracy.” An old professor of mine once warned me against writers who use capital letters for emphasis. Good advice she gave me. Capital letters suggest some imbalance in the mind of their employer….

It seems that this space and Mr. Peretz share a rather similar diagnosis.

UPDATE II

Newsweek’s commentary:

The pressure on Moulitsas—to be consistent, to be pragmatic, to win—will only grow as the fall elections approach. Already, the strain of the spotlight is beginning to show in his growing belligerence and paranoia. When Kosola broke, Moulitsas e-mailed fellow progressive activists, wondering who might be shopping the story. “I’ve gotten reliable tips that Hillary’s operation has been digging around my past (something I confronted them about, btw, and never got a denial), and you know the Lieberman/DLC/TNR camp is digging as well,” he wrote, referring to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council and The New Republic. (Aides to Senators Clinton and Lieberman deny the allegations in the e-mails.)

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