Sacrificing Your Human Decency…
…On the alter of partisan politics. (Via Jeff Goldstein. Thankfully, that means I don't have to link directly.)
Original Statement: "Small wonder his mother killed herself. Once she discovered what a despicable soul she had spawned she apparently saw no other way out".
"Improved" Statement: "This could explain why his mother killed herself. Once she discovered what a despicable soul she had spawned she apparently saw no other way out".
Either the original or the improved version is beyond the boundaries of civilized behavior and basic human decency. Period. Larry Johnson has crossed a line here. That this person is trotted out by the media as an "expert" whenever there's a need for an anti-administration quote shows how trumped up and phony their "outrage" over Ann Coulter is. Jeff puts it this way:
And yet these people—thanks mostly to their enablers in the press—are often trotted out as serious critics of the administration, and seldom shown for the vile and vicious anti-intellectual thugs that they are. Whether it’s Howard Dean calling Republicans evil and saying he “hates” them; or John Murtha convicting soldiers of murder in advance of a full investigation; or a low-rent castoffs like Johnson, who the MSM routinely turns to when they need a good anti-war intelligence source, mustering up the guts to say that Karl Rove is responsible for his own mother’s suicide—the bile is there for all to sample, if only the MSM weren’t so good at controlling the information flow.
I have said before that while I agree with some of the points Ann Coulter has made in the past, I disagree with her way of saying those things. What Johnson wrote is much, much worse.
Anyone on the left care to denounce this? Or is it just too easy to be a hypocrite and denounce Coulter for less while giving someone on your side of politics a pass for much worse?
Blogosphere, Left Wing, Media, Politics | Gaius June 16, 2006
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