Surprise! How a right-wing witch hunt blew up in the face of Gateway Pundit

Late last week, fact-free blogger Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit was hyping a breaking news story about a pair of men who killed two policemen in Arkansas (they opened fire with AK-47's after a random traffic stop) and were then gunned down by law enforcement in West Memphis after they fled the scene of the crime.

Hoft really played up the mayhem, even posting a photo of the two dead gunman, sprawled out on the ground just moments after being shot by the police. Gateway Pundit doesn't usually blog police blotter items like that so obviously the right-wing hate site was suggesting there was a political angle to the cop killing. .

Why the interest by Hoftt? Because one of killers, Jerry Kane, may have kinda/sorta been a community organizer

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Hoft promised reader he'd continue to update the story as developments warranted. But guess what? Hoft stopped updating the story when reporters discovered that Kane, rather than being a liberal community activist, was more like a right-wing, antigovernment nut:

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For some reason, Hoft didn't think his right-wing, antigovernment readers should be given that information.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005250009

I had no idea wingnuts were trying to pin this on *GASP* community organizers. Must be because of all the tragic, bloody history of community organizer cop killings. *SNORT*

Obviously, the goal was to damage liberals generally, and the Community Organizer-in-Chief specifically. *FAIL*

No wonder he's mum on the subject now. He's busy trying to wipe all that egg off his face . . . :rofl: