In an August 9 “My Word” online column, Fox News host John Gibson characterized posters on The Daily Kos weblog and “multi-millionaire propagandist Michael Moore” as the "Pol Pots of Democratic Party," and as the party's "Khmer Rouge wing." Citing an August 9 letter in which Moore advised Democratic politicians who support the Iraq war to change their position or face “defeat” at the polls, and a purported Daily Kos posting that “laid out plans” to “slime” Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, get him “kicked off all committees,” and get “all Dems” to support Connecticut Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont, Gibson asserted: “The Khmer Rouge wing of the Democratic Party is making a bid for a complete takeover.” He added:
Hang on, Dems. Here come the Pol Pots of your party. And if you were for national security, you are now emphatically not. Or else.
Remember the mountain of skulls in Cambodia? It's the Democrats new reality now that the anti-war rabble has tasted blood by taking Lieberman down.
Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge party were responsible for the deaths of between one million and two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979. According to the BBC, these deaths, by “execution, starvation, and disease,” constituted “one of the worst genocides of the 20th century.”
From Gibson's August 9 "My Word" column:
The Khmer Rouge wing of the Democratic Party is making a bid for a complete takeover.
Today in a letter from multi-millionaire propagandist Michael Moore: an unveiled threat to any Democrat who ever supported the war in Iraq.
Moore says: “We will actively work to defeat each and every one of you who does not support an immediate end to this war.”
When the war resolution vote took place in the U.S. Senate on October 11, 2002, 29 Democrats voted for it. And in the House, 42 Democrats voted for the war.
Moore continues in his letter: “Nearly every Democrat set to run for president in 2008 is responsible for this war. We are going to make sure they pay for that mistake. Payback time started last night.”
Moore included a direct threat to Hillary Clinton: “To Hillary, you will never make it through the Democratic primaries unless you start now by strongly opposing the war.”
To any Democrat who continues to support the war Moore promises: “Your days in office are now numbered.”
The Daily Kos -- the left's Internet muscle operation -- laid out plans for the next few days: Get Lieberman kicked off all committees, slime Lieberman by calling him a sore loser, get all Dems -- including Bill Clinton -- to back Lamont, and get any Lieberman supporters to publicly switch to Lamont.
Hang on, Dems. Here come the Pol Pots of your party. And if you were for national security, you are now emphatically not. Or else.
Remember the mountain of skulls in Cambodia? It's the Democrats new reality now that the anti-war rabble has tasted blood by taking Lieberman down.
That's My Word.