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Kingpin Kos vs. Kommisar Karl

I thought commenters were joking yesterday when they said Newsweek would have to get former top White House adviser Karl Rove as a political commentator to balance Kingpin Kos, but apparently they were speaking as prophets.

Newsweek made it official today: Kos is "the left's Karl Rove" -- and Kos is OK with that. "They balanced out a movement progressive with a movement conservative," he wrote.

I'm betting all of Kos' friends will be on board with Rove's hiring, too. They've long hinted that the conservative blogosphere was just a tool of Rove's anyway.

UPDATE: The Politics Blog at the San Francisco Chronicle doesn't share Kos' view that Newsweek got it right by picking Rove. "While hiring Moulitsas was an out of the box move for a mainstream outlet, hiring Rove wasn't. Will he say anything surprising -- or that deviates from the party's talking points?"

Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters also is puzzled -- but by the selection of Kos, who apparently was chosen after Rove even though the announcement about Kos came first. "It's as though ESPN hired a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback and a Division III college QB to analyze the upcoming playoffs. The latter may have some trenchant analysis to provide, but in terms of expertise, they don't compare."

That point is rather telling in the context of Kos' arrogant slam against bloggers on the right for thinking one of them might be chosen to balance him.

Posted by Danny | 07:07 AM

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