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February 27, 2007Had Cheney been killed, they’d still be mad - UPDATEDDean Barnett, writing at Hugh Hewitt’s place, offers up some examples of tolerance and compassion from the folks at Huffpo. Apparently these folks are upset that the Vice-President of the United States was not slain in Afghanistan. I’m not going to bother re-printing the remarks - you know what these adolescents come up with - “better luck next time,” is probably the wittiest of it all. Michael Goldfarb reminds us that Huffpo is where Nancy Pelosi and other Dem politicos go to blog. This stuff happens all the time, of course, and there are ugly souls on both the left and the right who use the death of someone like Molly Ivens or Milton Freidman to expose themselves as moral slug residue. Someday people will maybe begin to grow up and realize that you don’t behave like this. But until that day comes, let us ponder just what these folks would be saying had the assassination attempt against Dick Cheney been successful. My guess is, those who are now sounding disappointed would STILL not be happy. And it would still be Bush’s fault - he’d have hired Skull and Bones people to kill Cheney for “Halliburton shares” or for “Oiiiiiiil,” or to “install Condi as veep” to run in ‘08 or to “keep us scared about terrorism.” Or “for a poll-bounce.” In the world of over-the-edge-over-the-top politics, your opposition is not a human being, but an evil entity capable of anything…that’s what it has come to, for some, on both sides. And it’s pathetic. UPDATE: Apparently Huffpo has closed comments on the thread and “disappeared” the comments after first cherry picking through them? Not good. That’s tacky and also reflect badly on bloggers in general. Related: http://theanchoressonline.com/2007/02/27/had-cheney-been-killed-theyd-be-building-a-bush-did-it-conspiracy/trackback/ 4 Responses to “Had Cheney been killed, they’d still be mad - UPDATED” |
February 27th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
” In the world of over-the-edge-over-the-top politics, your opposition is not a human being, but an evil entity capable of anything…”
Indeed.
February 27th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Dick Cheney Targeted: Hufftard Thread
By now, most people have heard that Cheney was targeted by the Taliban through a homicide bomber. Sorry, libs Darth Cheney was unhurt. John Hawkins at Right Wing News wrote that the first thing he thought of was to check the DU. My first thought was to…
February 28th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Cheney OK after explosion in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed and wounded some two dozen people outside the main U.S. military base in Afg
February 28th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
When I first heard that the comments section had “disappeared”, I thought the entire thing had been removed. Or else that it had been removed with a site owner’s note like “Due to the numerous inappropriate and downright nasty comments that have been posted on this story, we’re closing comments and removing the previously-posted comments entirely.” Or *some* acknowledgment of what happened and why the comments had been removed.
That would have been the proper way to do it: when you remove a comment, unless it’s because the comment was obviously spam, acknowledge the removal and explain why. (”Commend removed for violating site policy on (swearing/death threats/talking about toe fungus)”).
But trying to airbrush history — not cool. And also, not something you can get away with, not in the Internet age. Someone captured a PDF (4.6 MB download) of the HuffPo thread before it got airbrushed, and posted it at Hot Air (H/T: Michelle Malkin). Caution: 107 pages of mostly unpleasant reading.
It’s becoming harder to get away with that kind of thing.