I apologize if this has already been blogged on DailyKos. I did a search, but couldn't find any prior mention:
The wingnuts, such as Michelle Malkin and Powerline's John Hinderaker, Red State and David Horowitz and others, are claiming that the NYT Travel Section wants to assassinate Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Because the NYT recently ran a
story about St. Michael's, Maryland, titled "Weekends with the President's Men," and included mention of Cheney's and Rumsfeld's weekend homes there.
The homes are public knowledge and have been written about extensively by, among others, Newsmax in 2005, International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Salon, and General Aviation News. Just do a google search and you'll find out that Rumsfeld's house is called, Mount Misery, and that Frederick Douglass was once beaten by his slave owner there. [Mr. Torture Rumsfeld would buy a house with that name and history.] Or that Cheney's house, which he bought about a week after Katrina hit, cost $2.9 million and is called Ballintober.
The wingnuts are posting the addresses, phone numbers and emails of NYT staff on their blogs and encouraging people to harass them, implicitly encouraging violence. The Secret Service protects Cheney and Rumsfeld, but who protects the NYT staff and their families.
Glenn Greenwald, a NYC litigator on the First Amendment, has a post that goes into this extensively, and includes links to the wingnuts' blogs.
Isn't this a form of cyber-stalking and terrorism? Isn't there a law against this? If there isn't, there ought to be. Because this is just the beginning of a right-wing witch-hunt, in terms of targeting the press and Democrats.
Update: Dmsilev has posted similar titled, "NYTimes Travel Section in league with Al Qaeada" [sic]. Apologies to Dmsilev. We must have been writing our posts at the same time.