Media Ignore Nutroots Extremism
Charles Johnson
Mon Jun 12, 2006 at 8:54 am PDT • Views: 326
Byron York looks at media reaction to the Yearly Kos moonbat festival in Las Vegas, and notes that so far Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga has been getting a pass for his hateful, vindictive writing—but that’s likely to change: What Fame Will Bring to DailyKos.
At some point, coverage of the DailyKos phenomenon will move into a new cycle. In politics, no person, and no movement, can attract as much attention as DailyKos has received recently without eventually attracting scrutiny. And that will likely bring attention to what is said—and who says it—on the website.
The obvious focus will be on DailyKos founder Mark Moulitsas himself. While his writings—and the controversies they have caused—are an old topic in the blogosphere, they have remained largely unexamined in major media outlets. For example, one of Moulitsas’s most famous statements, involving the brutal murders of four American contractors in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004—“I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.”—has been the target of extensive criticism on conservative blogs and in conservative media outlets, but, according to a search of the Nexis database, has never been mentioned in the Washington Post. (It was quoted, once, in the New York Times, deep in a September 2004 feature story on bloggers.) Nor has it been reported in any major newsmagazine or been the topic of conversation on any major television program.
The same is true for other things Moulitsas has written.
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