Wasn't it just a couple of days ago that the crew over at the Daily Kos was fretting about how conservatives as a whole are equally as complicit in the murder of George Tiller as the shooter himself? And of the details being reported to better understand the background of the actual killer, Scott Roeder, doesn't one major detail involve the posts that he left on anti-abortion Web sites?
With that in mind, how concerned should we be with a blog post that fantasizes about the death of conservative columnist Michelle Malkin?
Bowing in reverence to Michelle Malkin will sometimes get you play on either her site or HotAir. She loves the attention and her fan base is exhaustingly rabid in their devotion. But there's something that Mr. Weiss is missing out on.
Of the 11 comments ( that's right, 11 ) that this diary received, the bulk of them thought the diary in very poor taste and some even asked for it to be deleted. So much for Rusty's claim that DailyKos, as a whole, thinks the same way the diarist does.
But, such is the thought process of a conservative, especially one blatantly trying to get Michelle Malkin to notice him.
By and large, the diary is an easy target for Weiss. It takes on one of the biggest stars of the fringe-conservative movement and is posted on a website that those same conservatives love to hate.
Even though the diarist is exercising their right to free speech, it was done in poor taste. But, equally as poor is Rusty Weiss' blatant cry for attention from Malkin and her admirers, which I will admit to giving him attention this once - if only to point out his lazy form of reportage, in rushing to Malkin's aid. Rather than searching for a poorly written piece of fiction on DailyKos, Weiss could be looking into the broader implications of the Tiller assassination, a subject that he connected with the Kos diary.
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