UPDATE: Expect a swarm of zombies from the lovely people at Daily Kos. Baxamusa has comfirmed my expectations of his character: Not only has he kept his lie about Rostra in place, he’s put his post there on DK. Read the comments, if you’re brave, and you’ll see just what I mean by lovely.
For a taste of the reason and compassion for which Kossacks are deservedly known, read this 2006 thread about the lung cancer of the late conservative writer Cathy Seipp. Here’s some comments from that thread, which chastised her for the horrid crime of opposing universal health care:
“Screw this bitch. Her existence is a black spot on humankind’s lung. There are plenty better humans who suffered her illness who should now be living if it weren’t for people like her. No sympathy!!”
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“If she really wants to make a difference now, she should donate her organs to liberals and have herself euthanized. Anything short of that still reaffirms her own obsessive selfishness.”
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“Her illness is the result of years of her pent up hate coming back at her. She caused her own disease.”
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As I said, lovely. And these are the kind of folks who rail against hate on the right.
We shouldn’t be surprised. A certain faction of the left habitually lies and blames its opponents for what it practices. They’ll cry “hate” as a tactic to suppress free speech — which these so-called “liberals” can’t tolerate coming from those who disagree with them. You saw that with the immediate smear of the Tea Party after the Gabby Giffords shooting. You’re seeing it now.
But the smears and intimidation are also a tremendous, if backhanded, compliment from that faction (which by no means includes all on the left). Their policies are becoming increasingly unpopular with the public as their politics have been discredited. And on the local scene, SD Rostra is growing in readership and influence.
SD Rostra emerged organically, from an eclectic mixture of conservatives of varying stripes with a few odd Libertarians thrown in. Its group blog has a large base and a “big tent” philosophy that not only tolerates but encourages discussion of different points of view, be it on gay marriage, abortion, drug legalization or immigration. Meanwhile, that left-wing faction’s Astroturf outfits and blogs, both nationally and locally, are going nowhere. The various attempts to ape the grass-roots vigor of the Tea Party with their own top-down creations have floundered.
So that faction does what it’s blindly programmed to do: attack their opponents for “hate.” The truth doesn’t matter to these people. We can’t expect honesty from them; all we can do is point out their lies and trust in the fairness of the public.
Rostrafarians and fans, be confident. We’re going to endure a tremendous amount of filth from some truly depraved people who care nothing about the truth — because we are making a difference.
And now for my original post:
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Labor organizer Murtaza Baxamusa has falsely claimed that an SD Rostra article published the address of labor leader Lorena Gonzelez, presumably sparking a rock-throwing attack on her house.
Here is the headline with his baseless charge:
False and inflammatory headline. Click photo for link to inaccurate blog post.
The article as published on SD Rostra gives the lie to this. It never gave Gonzalez’ address. but merely mentioned the neighborhood in which she lived. I guess that narrows it down to a few thousand houses!
A second inaccuracy: It wasn’t a brick. Gonzalez said she found a “heavy rock” — not a brick — in her home with the broken glass. But what’s one more falsehood when you’ve already slimed someone?
From the SD Rostra Post
Baxamusa, who Rostra readers may have read about in one of my columns, is a labor activist for the misleadingly named “Middle Class Taxpayers Association”, a union-organized group. He’s also writing at the union-backed “We Party” site, opposed to the Tea Party — where he publishes an outright falsehood against a Rostra columnist.
As I’ve said before, whoever threw the rock through Gonzalez’ window is vile and belongs in jail. Richard Rider wonders in the comments if this attack was staged by union backers to discredit a critic.
I won’t go there. But I do know that the behavior of Baxamusa and company, who are wetting themselves with glee trying to smear Rostra with false charges and innuendo, is deeply disgusting. It’s the action of someone who would rather distort and falsify for political gains than stick to the truth.
Baxamusa’s false and inflammatory post only confirms what has been increasingly apparent — he doesn’t think he can win a fair argument.
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(DISCLAIMER — This is my opinion, not that of my employer, the North County Times).