F**k Daily Kos?

A contretemps at Conceptual Guerilla about Daily Kos. The comments are the real interest here. Such as:

This particular rant brought me into contact with the "peanut gallery" over there. It's an interesting dichotomy. The writers - both the front pagers and the popular diarists -- are generally very good. But they aren't really the audience -- something I never really understood until this episode. I thought I was talking to guys like you -- large numbers of whom were invisible to me. ...

He's right, though. Kos is a major factor in closing off the rest of the progressive blogs from view. His success, which had so much potential, has been used to limit the field rather than expand it.