Mark Coffey has been reading this article in the Washington Monthly about Daily Kos founder, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Coffey does a nic job of fisking the article as well as highlighting this egregious comment by Zuniga regarding his macabre reaction over the death of American contractors and the sight of their bodies being dragged through the streets of Fallujah. Apparently, Zuniga doesn't regret being caught exposing the length to which his hatred of the war in Iraq has taken him.

In June 2003, after television cameras caught a cheering, thousand-strong mob in Fallujah dragging the charred, dismembered bodies of American contractors through the streets, Moulitsas linked to the reports and said of the contractors: “I feel nothing… Screw them.” The declaration, gleefully seized on by right-wing bloggers, provoked weeks of controversy. Democratic candidates came under pressure to pull their advertisements from the site, and even Moulitsas's traditional allies in the liberal blogosphere—including The Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum—criticized him. (When I asked Moulitsas recently how he felt about the episode, his mouth stretched into a smile: “Vindicated,” he said. The media has recently begun to question the role of American contractors in Iraq, he pointed out, which was the point all along. This is how a liberal noise machine, freed from the don't-shatter-the-porcelain decorum, might work.) If the episode hurt him, it wasn't evident from his readership numbers, which continued to sky-rocket. (“It was a blip!” he crowed to The New York Times).

That's taking the us-vs-them mentality too far. The fact that he's proud of his reaction really says it all, doesn't it.