I've been here for a while... I'm not super ancient, but have more or less lurked since the Dean days. I started reading regularly during the Gannon/Guckert flap, and have seen my share of silly stuff happen here at Daily Kos.
I've seen major "superstar" posters flame out, saw a big one leave for being outed, some amazing pie fights, and an incessant influx of "trolls." I don't mind that, as the trolls are rooted out, and the silliness usually gives way to reason. That's one of the reasons I've kept coming back... a nice, reasonable point of view here.
But today, I'm disgusted, and here's why, after the fold:
Twice now today, the "McCain is old" video has been frontpaged in the open threads. This thing offended me when it was frontpaged yesterday. If you haven't seen it, and I won't link to it, I'll give you the gist: Some idiot kids blather on about how "old" John McCain is. He's older than Atari video games, he's older than Pokemon, he's older than rap music, etc...
This is the front page of a site that a week ago was in flames because ABC focused on distracting trivia during their televised debates.
I've said it in the comments in the open threads the offending video appeared in, but I'll say it again in diary form (and I haven't diaried in YEARS--nothing's really moved me since Jason Leopold, it would seem):
If this is all we got on John McCain, that he's "older than McDonalds," we're in deep trouble. That this video has been front paged 3 times in the past two days on this website, which so often rises above the blather of the "traditional media" (kos's preferred term, there), saddens me.
That it was posted as second time today, after it was blasted with negative comments the first time it was posted (reminds me once again of the ABC debates) is inconceivable to me.
I'm not as old as McCain, but I'm evidently older than the people who made this video. I'm old enough to realize calling somebody "old" is not an insult, and old enough to realize my elders have been around a long time, and probably have picked up some wisdom in their years.
Ok, I'm ranting now, gonna stop, just wanted to get this off my chest.
And, by the way, I can't stand McCain. Can't stand his "flip-flopping" on the Falwells of the world, can't stand his "100 more years" and "Bomb Bomb Iran" mentality, and I think he's a lowlife for dumping his first wife because she was in an accident. I don't care how old he is, I still ain't voting for him!