RedState creator and newly minted Fixed Noise "Contributor" Erick Erickson goes even further down the hole of asshattery.
The offense: On twitter, he defended the employee who spanked an 8-year old child at least 25+ times over throwing a cookie at her at a Dollar General Store in Wrightsville, Georgia.
WXIA (11Alive), Atlanta's NBC affiliate:
WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. -- A Dollar General employee arrested in Wrightsville last week for hitting a child with a belt has now been charged with aggravated assault. The charges were upgraded from simple battery because store video showed the woman hitting the 8 year old at least 25 times.
"It was more or less a beating than a spanking the way she was hitting him," said Logan Ivey's father Jody. "I don't know how to explain it, and I don't want to think about it."
Eight-year-old Logan said it was very painful.
"I felt like I had five needles sticking in me; it really hurt, I was screaming 'Momma,'" he said. "And I was crying real bad because she had actually hurt me...when she stopped whipping me my pants were actually a little bit warm."
Wrightsville Police Chief Paul Sterling said Logan Ivey was running around in the store and got into a confrontation with 39-year-old store clerk Emilia Graciela Bell. Bell told investigators the boy threw a cookie at her and that's when she removed her belt, chased the boy down and spanked him behind the counter.
Media Matters
Fox News contributor Erick Erickson wrote that a Dollar General employee deserves "a medal" for reportedly responding to an eight-year-old child who threw a cookie at her by hitting the child with her belt dozens of times.
Erickson has a long history of using his Twitter feed to engage in inflammatory commentary.