September 13, 2009 01:14 AM UTC

Kaminsky's lunacy hits the big time

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• by: Steve Balboni

(Kind of embarrassing, isn’t it? – promoted by Colorado Pols)

Today’s WaPo in an article about the extremism of the conservative grass-roots,

One blogger who writes regularly for Freedomworks, Ross Kaminsky of Boulder, Colo., compared Obama’s Tuesday address to U.S. schoolchildren to the tactics of Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot and other murderous dictators. “Totalitarians of all stripes put great emphasis on brainwashing the young, and Obama is no exception,” he wrote on the group’s Web site under the name “rossputin.”

This post from Kaminsky is also featured on the Denver Post’s website “Politics West” (You can find it if you want to.)

Does the Post endorse this rhetoric or are writers who appear on their website allowed to operate without any editorial supervision whatsoever? What do the professional writers at the Denver Post think of having someone like Kaminsky tied to their brand?

Kaminsky is a ridiculous caricature of a right-wing nutter who is free to make as big an ass out himself as likes. Why though the Denver Post believes they need to provide him with a public forum is a question I cannot answer.

It’s probably a question worth asking yourself though before you continue your subscription, pick up a copy at the newsstand or direct any traffic to their website.