Right Winger Sites Manufacture Controversy to Smear YKos |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 4:32 pm |
| Tags: military, republican hypocrisy, blogs, right wing stupidity |
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Perhaps smarting from how bad they came across in the Max Blumenthal videos of CPAC and the Young Republicans convention (and even they are minimally self-aware enough to have figured out that they looked really, really bad), there were some conservatives looking to make the netroots look equally hack-y at the YearlyKos convention. So predictably, Malkin, Drudge and the NRO (I won’t link to them because they deserve your scorn, not your hits) trumpeted that a soldier was censored by Kossacks trying to speak in defense of the military. Because, you know, liberals don’t support the troops like the right does. (/snark) Such a tired and vastly unsubstantiated meme. Here’s the exchange in question: So technically, what the right wingers said is what happened. However, here is where they are fundamentally dishonest (*gasp!* Malkin, Drudge and PajamasMedia, dishonest? Shocking, I know): the sergeant in question was told repeatedly that he would be in violation [ Full article ] |
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