Todd Starnes showed a shocking lack of taste (even for him) when he reacted to the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner with snarky attacks on President Obama. Kudos to Fox's Greta Van Susteren for calling him out on it.
While most people probably took the news of the airline crash with sorrow and concern, Starnes thought of smearing Obama. Here's a grab from Starnes' twitter feed during the hour that the news broke of the crash.
An hour later, Starnes thought of this:
But in case you think I only criticize Greta Van Susteren, here's a big shout out to her for having the gumption to stand up to her own colleague. On In a blog post called, "NOTE TO FNC’s TODD STARNES: THIS IS VERY BAD TASTE, 295 PEOPLE DIED," Van Susteren wrote, "This is not the time to be snarky or have some pathetic attempt at humor. Let me repeat… 295 people died."
Good for her!
H/T Media Matters.
On cue, today Greta lashed out at Pelosi saying, “pouring gasoline on a fire (calling a Constitutional disagreement an attack) is a disservice to the nation.”
Pelosi sent Greta a fundraising email saying that Obama was being unfairly attacked by Boehner’s law suit.
Greta kept on and wrote in her post, “I have no idea whether Speaker Boehner’s position will prevail or not but Leader Pelosi is off the charts with the description “attack on the President.” She is just trying to stir up trouble, not good debate.”
So sad that those who try to have a decent debate on her blog are attacked unfairly. I have no patience anymore to even try.
But, her flash of humanity and compassion was a refreshing change.
