Matt Bai has a story up now that strikes me as outrageous.
He's accusing Kos of scrubbing Web pages that were inflammatory towards Rep. Giffords.
Yeah, you heard me.
In a story tonight entitled "A Turning Point in the Discourse, but in Which Direction?", Bai starts off his first paragraph with an amazing statement:
WASHINGTON — Within minutes of the first reports Saturday that Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and a score of people with her had been shot in Tucson, pages began disappearing from the Web. One was Sarah Palin’s infamous "cross hairs" map from last year, which showed a series of contested Congressional districts, including Ms. Giffords’s, with gun targets trained on them. Another was from Daily Kos, the liberal blog, where one of the congresswoman’s apparently liberal constituents declared her "dead to me" after Ms. Giffords voted against Nancy Pelosi in House leadership elections last week.
Now Bai offers no proof of his statement. Bai doesn't describe if it was a comment or a diary. He doesn't give a date. He just writes this crap as a handy fact probably to give so-callled journalistic balance to offset his words about Palin and her cross hair map. At least, he does link to Palin's map on Huffington Post
The only link for Dkos brings your to the current Homepage.
I hope Markos sees this and reacts to this immediately. If this charge is true and I can't believe it's true...the Goddess knows how many time we've all wished a diary or comment would disappear but there it stayed, Bai needs to prove it with links, dates, etc. Not just a lame statement.
The only reasonable explanation is that it was a comment and it was hidden and Bai is just too clueless to realize this. Whatever the reason, Markos needs to move on this before it gets legs.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
UPDATED Thanks to all for their information about what really happened. It seems that a diary was posted in the past week by someone who was upset at Rep. Giffords for voting for Rep. Lewis for Speaker of the House. The person entitled their diary: My Congresswoman voted against Nancy Pelosi! And is Now Dead to Me! The diary contained no threats of violence, no gun sites, no Sarah Palin-like 'reload' language. Other than the title, the harshest remarks were something to the effect of no longer being a volunteer for Rep. Giffords. Hardly the stuff of rousing vitriol. When Rep. Giffords was shot today, the diarist out of respect for Rep. Giffords and after apologizing for causing any distress, deleted the diary of his/her own free will. There is no equivalency between what the diarist wrote in the title and what Sarah Palin posted on her web page or wrote in her twitter remarks about reloading. There is no equivalence between what the diarist wrote and what so many extreme right wing politicians, TV commentators or radio hosts say each and every day. Bai's brand of journalism is dishonest and shoddy. Shame on him.
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