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Mean liberals said bad things about Dick Cheney!

Joshua Holland: And the Washington Post's famous media "critic" cries about it right along with the wing-nuts.
March 1, 2007  |  
 
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Earlier this week, Eric Boehlert called out the Washington Post -- and specifically WaPo media "critic" Howard Kurtz - for having a (unrequited) love affair with right-wing bloggers in general, and Michelle Malkin in particular. This is the same Post that has whined incessantly about how "uncivil" bloggers on the left are.

Of course, Malkin and her followers would slit Howard Kurtz' throat as soon as look at him.

Well, today, Kurtz follows up by happily amplifying Malkin's latest bullshit non-scandal ...

This is really sick.

I know we're living in a polarized time. I know there are people who absolutely detest George Bush and Dick Cheney. I know they like to vent their spleen online, sometimes in vulgar terms, and hey, that's life in a democracy.

But some of the comments posted after a suicide bomber blew himself up at Afghanistan's Bagram Air Force Base, while Cheney was there--killing as many as 23 people--are nothing short of vile.

The comments appeared on the Huffington Post, which, to its credit, took them down. But some were preserved by Michelle Malkin, and I reproduce them here:

Joshua Holland is a staff writer at Alternet and a regular contributor to The Gadflyer.

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