The New York Times owes Kos Diarist BoyBlue an apology

[TheBigotBasher]

The New York Times has followed the far right blogosphere in reepeating accusations made on the racist Hate Site Hilbuzz about Kos diarist BoyBlue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/us/politics/09bai.html?hp

I was targeted by the hate site Hilbuzz previously and it is not a nice thing but no deaths were associated with it (Hillbuzz readers just made death threats to me).

I can understand BoyBlue deleting his diary which as a result of Dujan is now all over the right wing blogosphere complete with accusations that he is somehow connected to the shooter.

Just a google search would have picked up Hillbuzz is a scam site. Yet it is promoted by Rush Limbaugh and Conservatives4Palin because the scamming scammer who runs it claims to be a Hilary supporter.

"Dead to me is not a threat". Making direct threats against Members of Congress, which Hillbuzz has done repeatedly is. Those threats are not hard to find.

The circling of the wagons by the right wing blogosphere around Hillbuzz, including Breitbart and Malkin, suggests that only a little more digging was needed by the NYT. Looking at those pointing the fingers may have been a good place to start.

[leveymg]

1. They're trying to concoct false-flag Leftist associations for the Nazi shooter punk

It's not going to work this time. This isn't 1963.

[progressoid]

2. Yeah that'll happen.

not

[ProSense]

3. This is how absolutely ridiculous so-called journalists have become. Not only

is that phrase not a threat, but Bai also made a completely absurd comparison.

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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.

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Since when is a anonymous poster on an Internet site equivalent to Sarah Palin?

George Packer

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This relentlessly hostile rhetoric has become standard issue on the right. (On the left it appears in anonymous comment threads, not congressional speeches and national T.V. programs.) And it has gone almost entirely uncriticized by Republican leaders. Partisan media encourages it, while the mainstream media finds it titillating and airs it, often without comment, so that the gradual effect is to desensitize even people to whom the rhetoric is repellent. We’ve all grown so used to it over the past couple of years that it took the shock of an assassination attempt to show us the ugliness to which our politics has sunk.

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Is there an unwritten media rule that RW threats should be elevated and protected?

[smoogatz]

4. Who the fuck is "we," white man?

"We’ve all grown so used to it over the past couple of years that it took the shock of an assassination attempt to show us the ugliness to which our politics has sunk."

[cali]

5. Hillbuzz is beyond disgusting.

sorry you were targeted by those vile people.

[PopSixSquish]

8. More Like Certifiably Insane.

I stumbled across that site several months ago and had to rethink my opposition to waterboarding afterwards. Sorry you were targeted and keep standing...

[jenmito]

6. Yesterday in freeperville, they were posting about this, coming to the conclusion that

this is the guy who did the shooting, even though in the diary that they posted, he said he still has some paralysis. :eyes:

[ThatPoetGuy]

7. English is dead to me. Tiger Woods is dead to me. Family Guy is dead to me.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22is+dead+to+me%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

More than 300,000 uses of the exact words, "is dead to me," and none of them was a threat.