Posted by
Lady Logician on Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:53:55 PM
I'm sure you all heard about the suicide bomber that blew himself up outside of Baghram AFB when Vice President Cheney was there. Well the reaction of the left would have been shocking if it were not so typical. What was atypical was this response by a newspaper!
"THE assassination attempt on Vice President Dick Cheney in Afghanistan drew praise from a few members of the antiwar left. Have these people lost their minds?
At the popular
Huffington Post Web site, dozens of comments were posted. Right-wing columnist
Michelle Malkin captured them and posted them at her Web site. "
The thread was taken down and comments suspended but the "damage" was done. In an attempt to mute the outrage, the proprietoress of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington lamented that "make up a very, very small unrepresentative portion of our readers,". That lead to this inquiry from William Kristol.
"Arianna
disapproves of
those of us who
called attention to
the comments posted on her site Tuesday morning lamenting the failure of a suicide bombing in Afghanistan Tuesday to kill Vice President Cheney. These commenters "make up a very, very small unrepresentative portion of our readers," she now assures us.
How does she know? If the HuffPost commenters are unrepresentative of HuffPost readers, how does she divine the views of her readers?
Enlighten us, Arianna. Poll your readers. Ask them: Are they pleased that the attempt against Vice President Cheney failed? Are they grateful that he is alive and well? Do you hope the U.S. prevails in Afghanistan? In Iraq?
And if the poll turns out the way you hope, perhaps you should arrange to moderate the commenters so they don't convey the impression that your readers are--as you put it--"unhinged" and "fringe."
Both sides have their unhinged fringe. It behooves both sides to reign them in. However, the first thing that needs to be done is to define "unhinged fringe". Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh, while caustic are not the "unhinged fringe". Neither is Oliver Willis or Markos Moulitsis. However, those who wish death, dismemberment and prolonged pain on their political opposits ARE the unhinged fringe and it behooves us all to put a stop to their insanity by speaking out against them and their remarks. Then maybe we can get the debate back on the issues and off of the people.