Dan Curry’s “Reverse Spin” has a new post up attacking Americans for excercising their First Amendments rights of free speech and free assembly.

Mr. Curry is concerned that the media will cover the news, which is odd since the newsmedia is supposed to cover the news.

In this case, the news is about the YearlyKos convention which begins today and runs through Sunday at Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center. He thinks the media is going to go somehow show liberal bias if the cover the news that the convention is in town.

But, simply covering a news story about a convention of political activists clearly does not indicate a bias. It’s a big convention. Presidential candidates (along with candidates for everything from township trustee to US Congress).

Like it or not, it’s just as much news as a DNC or RNC convention, or even the CPAC meeting of conservatives from a few months back which made headlines when conservative spokesperson Ann Coulter called Sen. John Edwards a faggot, and the conservative crowd cheered.

Now, Mr. Curry, in trying to claim that Markos “Kos” Moulitsas (founder of the DailyKos blog — the YearlyKos convention is an offshoot of the blog) spouts “hate speech” links to a years-old comment from Mr. Moulitsas who, in his anger over highly-compensated mercernaries in Iraq, did indeed go over the top.

And that’s why Mr. Moulitsas expressed his mea culpa for the comment (not that Mr. Curry would bother even acknowledging this):

I was angry that five soldiers — the real heroes in my mind — were killed the same day and got far lower billing in the newscasts. I was angry that 51 American soldiers paid the ultimate price for Bush’s folly in Iraq in March alone. I was angry that these mercenaries make more in a day than our brave men and women in uniform make in an entire month. I was angry that the US is funding private armies, paying them $30,000 per soldier, per month, while the Bush administration tries to cut our soldiers’ hazard pay. I was angry that these mercenaries would leave their wives and children behind to enter a war zone on their own violition.

So I struck back.

Unlike the vast majority of people in this country, I actually grew up in a war zone. I witnessed communist guerillas execute students accused of being government collaborators. I was 8 years old, and I remember stepping over a dead body, warm blood flowing from a fresh wound. Dodging bullets while at market. I lived in the midsts of hate the likes of which most of you will never understand (Clinton and Bush hatred is nothing compared to that generated when people kill each other for politics or race or nationality). There’s no way I could ever describe the ways this experience colors my worldview.

Now, if being angry that soldiers (whose duty it is to go to war) get 1/10th the respect of mercernaries (who choose to be in a war) makes Mr. Moulitsas a “hater” in Mr. Curry’s eyes, so be it. But I wonder what he considers his own repeated epithets, which hurls the way of anyone to his left.

As for YearlyKos itself, I suppose Mr. Curry considers journalists like Rich Miller to be biased because he part of a panel discussion on Illinois politics. And I suppose Mr. Curry considers FairTax.org to also be biased because they are one of the conventions sponsors.

The fact of the matter is, Mr. Curry simply doesn’t like the politics of YearlyKos attendees, so he finds any coverage of it to be suspect and any “big names” associated with it to be off the mark. Such is life in a “reverse spin zone”, I suppose, but it’s as intellectually dishonest as the similar attacks flowing from the hypocritical Bill O’Reilly (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, …).

I take the title of his blog to mean Mr. Curry is still spinning facts, just in the reverse of whatever sort of spin he feels is already out there in the ether… Fair enough, but spin is spin. And Mr. Curry is certainly taking the BS to new levels with his half-facts about Markos Moulitsas, the half-million strong Daily Kos blog and the 2nd Annual YearlyKos convention of political activists and others — all of whom are Americans just like Mr. Curry.

In other words, Mr. Curry is railing against these Americans for doing the exact same things he himself does — expressing their political beliefs. But, since he disagrees with their values and convictions he feels the need to spin out a silly, vacuous attack.