Sorry to break the rules. This is a REPOST from a diary I wrote last year. But given all the attention Mr. Erickson is garnering for himself with his untoward statements, I wanted to circle back to this:
In March, 2009 Erickson posted this and CNN hired him anyway:
Next time a notably Democrat staffer from the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee heads off to a crisis pregnancy center after a drunken night at Tortilla Coast, it’ll no longer be the mail man getting the blame, but Rush. It has gotten that reflexive and ridiculous.
If you are offended, Erickson says piss off (same link):
UPDATED: Hat tip to all the commenters and Caleb who suggest if the Dems are offended, we just call it the Mary Jo Kopechne Memorial Health Care Act. After all, she is already dead. — Erick
This was all triggered by this (same link):
A Democratic official rebuked conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh on Friday for suggesting a health care proposal will be named in memory of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer. On his radio show, Limbaugh said President Barack Obama’s proposed health care revisions will be championed by “the liberal lion Teddy Kennedy.”
Erickson also had this to say in the same post (same link):
Kennedy, the “liberal lion,” is a natural choice for this. Rush is smart enough to know it. We all are. Poor old Brian Wolff just went through that instinctive reflex — never mind that the DCCC is trying to raise money off attacking Rush and this is another element to it. And never mind that the Democrat strategy for the past several weeks has been to blame Rush, shining the spotlight on him, as a distraction from what they are actually doing, i.e. raping and pillaging the American Dream.
Is it just me, or is Erickson's mind in the gutter? Promiscuity? Raping? Oh those RedState Christian family values! This is how Erickson makes a reasoned, scholarly, expert political argument. By referencing sex and violence.
Someone is offended because Rush was basically reveling in Sen. Kennedy's terminal condition, and instead of either ignoring it or being a human being and acknowledging Rush's comments were wrong, Erickson decides to jump to Rush's defense by impugning the morality of female DCCC staffers, strongly implying they are drunken sluts.
HECKUVA JOB, CNN!!!!
@JonKlienCNN, @JohnKingCNN, @SamFeistCNN, @CNN
@DCCC
Should the DCCC feel comfortable about fair treatment from CNN, given they hired Erickson after he wrote this???