The Beam in Howard Kurtz's Eye
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:51:39 am PDT
In an article about Ted Kennedy, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz suddenly lashes out at Michelle Malkin for comments posted at her blog: Howard Kurtz - A Day of Sadness.
(A digression: Michelle Malkin is among those conservatives asking readers to put aside political differences and pray for Kennedy and his family, and most of her commenters did just that. But there were a few, revoltingly hateful exceptions— posters who were reveling in the news and, in one case, talked of celebrating.)
I’ve pointed this out before, but Howard Kurtz is being stunningly hypocritical when he attacks blogs for these kinds of comments—because the Washington Post’s own comments sections are often just chock full of ugly, hateful posts wishing death on people. And they almost never police them.
Their recent article on Ted Kennedy’s misfortune is a case in point. Right on the first page of comments, without even searching, we find this lovely sentiment, wishing death on the President of the United States:
TomIII wrote:
Actually its less than 364 days. January 20 is about 8 months away.
Chimpy has been the worst President in the history of the US and should have been impeached.
It would be fitting if an angry mob dragged him out of his crappy Crawford ranch and tore him limb from limb.
Death to traitors.
5/21/2008 8:55:56 PM
