Friday, 3 of September of 2010
Is it any wonder why CNN’s ratings have dropped so drastically?
FOX News should demand an apology.
The gross distorted accusation takes place just 40 seconds into this video:
UPDATE:
Does Rick Sanchez own any Led Zeppelin records? Has anyone told him that Obama’s words played backwards prove that he’s an agent of SATAN???
Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zúniga had some fun on Twitter this weekend at the expense of dead cops. He of course, used it as an excuse to make fun of conservatives while trying to pin responsibility for the Pittsburgh shootings on them at the same time. In case you haven’t been following the story, a 23 year old man opened fire on police in Pittsburgh Saturday, killing three police officers, story HERE.
As far as we can tell, this story was broken by blogger Tommy Christopher who had a Twitter exchange with Markos which ended in Markos saying “When we [Democrats] were out of power, we organized to win the next election. Conservatives, apparently, prefer to talk “revolution” and kill cops.”
See the screen capture courtesy of Tommy Christopher.
For Kos to use such a tradgedy for partisan hackery and jokes is beyond tasteless. It certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed within the blogosphere. There are stories on this incident in a number of notable places.
Caleb at RedState notes:
“Tommy Christopher is rightly offended by the Kos Kids turning a tragedy into a chance for one-liners. Sadly, though, this is only the latest in a long series of such commentary by Markos and his legions of like-minded liberal ghouls.”
Sundries Shack smartly points out that KOS is not just a blogger:
“He is not a fringe player. He is a public face of the party and their go-to guy on new media. Conservatives should not hesitate for a second to hang his despicable, slanderous words around the neck of every single left-wing politician in the country. They bought him and his hate willingly and eagerly. Let’s make sure we don’t let them off the hook.”
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air writes:
“Those who would use such horrifying tragedies to smear their political opponents are completely unworthy of engagement, and utterly despicable to boot, regardless of which side they’re on.”
Perhaps the most surprising criticism comes from the Huffington Post, where Lee Stranahan writes:
“Markos has been tremendously successful with his blog and they [conservatives] don’t like that. Anything they can attack him for, they will. I understand that; that’s the game.
It was still wrong for Kos to say it.”
I find Stranahan’s comments confusing. He rightly suggests that Kos was wrong but before that refers to all this as some sort of “game.”
I don’t think conservatives see any of this as a game.
I’m fairly certain the families of the slain police officers don’t either.