Peter Daou was happy to announce a new website for news with a liberal bent. Well, strike that, not specifically a liberal bent. I thought that’s what it was going to be but-
So it’s not exactly a Democratic or a liberal or progressive news site but a specifically “Clinton voters” site.
One of the very first stories on the site was this gem “Sanders and the Mainstream Media Helped Put Trump in the White House” blaming Bernie voters for Clinton’s loss. This is the week after Daou went ape on Bernie for an incomplete tweet from the week before the election that he claims gave Sanders voters the “green light” to vote for Trump.
He ignores the other tweets Sanders put out including
and
Verrit might yet be a success. They claimed to be DDOS’d after Hillary herself mentioned the site in a tweet. I don’t know and I don’t think we’ve seen evidence for an actual DDOS attack rather than just a huge influx of visitors once the presidential candidate who got the most votes last year essentially endorsed the site, but either way, Daou’s crew should have been ready with a CloudFlare like service to help them ride the wave.
So is this site the new Air America/Rachel Maddow/anti-Fox or is it going to be a tool to bash the leftmost side of the party and to settle the grudges of Clintonians?
Much of the content has been excellent and serves Dems well, but if it’s laced with this internecine refighting of 2016 it will do nothing but divide and demoralize.
Maybe this is all a setup for HRC to run again in 2020 (and I think that would be a HUGE mistake) but what the hell is Peter Daou trying to accomplish here and why does he think success comes by stepping over the bodies of Bernie’s supporters?
I encourage you to also read Samantha Wilson’s excellent Medium piece with the snarky title “Who’s Paying Peter Daou to Smear Bernie Sanders and the Left?”