Yesterday Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, otherwise known as "Daily Kos", a left-wing blog of some repute, had this to say about the 4 Americans killed in Fallujah.
Every death should be on the front pageLet the people see what war is like. This isn't an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush's folly.
That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.
by kos on Thu Apr 1st, 2004 at 15:08:56 GMT
It generated a good deal of blowback. One of his advertisers has already pulled the plug, and he was rightly denounced across the blogosphere. Today, the link has been changed, and has been expunged from Google cache's.
NIce try, Zuniga. Screenshot and discussion here
Despite of the warnings of traditional media about the lack of editors and risk of being fed misinformation by bloggers, incidents like this demonstrate that the opposite is true. While an obscure blog like this one (actually, I depend on it) may get away with fudging the facts, as soon as a statement becomes well known (and potentially damaging), there will be no end of rebuttals and dissections.
And as we see here, simply deleting the offending entry is no way to "make it go away".
Zuniga, you're a coward. Either stand by your words, or apologize and retract them properly.
Bump!
Links-=-Tools-=-Reviews