After Big Government blogger Kyle Olson stepped in it when he suggested White House spokesman Robert Gibbs wore a purple bracelet on his wrist during his Sunday morning TV appearances to “signal” solidarity with the SEIU union -- um, Gibbs wore it in support of a young cancer victim, as he tweeted -- the blogger was widely mocked online.
And deservedly so.
His response? Also priceless [emphasis added]:
Besides Robert Gibbs himself tweeting about it, I scored the lefty trifecta: MediaMatters, DailyKos and a blogger for Salon.com all responded.
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The very fact that Robert Gibbs and the radical left felt the need to respond to a theory I myself called “doubtful” shows how sensitive they are at this point. The votes don't appear to be there for ObamaCare and they ain't happy about it.
This is almost funnier than Olson's awful post which kicked off the laughs. Olson wrote something that was factually wrong and painfully dumb. Media Matters, among others, called Olson out on his ginormous mistake and his response is that we're “sensitive.”
If by “sensitive” Olson means we're laughing at you, then yeah, that's correct. But if by “sensitive” he means anything else, then no, that's not accurate.
UPDATED: Please note that Olson never corrects his massive error. In his posted response, Olson, who got the purple bracelet story about as wrong as humanly possible, still does not explicitly explain to readers that Gibbs' bracelet was worn on behalf of a young girl with cancer. Nor does Olson apologize for his mistake.
It seems Olson is literally incapable of telling the truth. No wonder he blogs for Andrew Breitbart.