Common Folk Using Common Sense

Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. The world is a better place because Steve Irwin was here. He did the thing he loved for a long time, and he did it so we could all learn more about our planet.

He exposed all of us to aspects of this world we would have never seen otherwise. But there never was an impression that he was full of himself. In fact we saw a man who cared more for the planet and its wonderful creatures than anything else – including himself.

My heart goes out to his family, Terri, Bindi, and Bob. Rest in peace, Steve.

But proving once again that the Moonbat Left lives on a planet different from the rest of us I offer you these snippets from DailyKos – and NO, I do not link there, you can find it on your own. It makes me sick to see the people of our blogger community taking cheap shots on the day he died, but this is not the first time such has happened at Kos, home of “the Progressives”.

First is the initial message by Kos (a.k.a. Markos Moulitsas Zúniga), self-proclaimed Liberal #1, himself:

Not political, I know. Irwin had two small children. I’ll never understand parents who put themselves in such positions of danger knowing that a misstep can leave their children without a parent.

???

The guy has just died, and Kos chooses this time to attack the way he makes a living? And what about parents that serve in the military, or with the fire department, or with the police department? What about parents that drive to work everyday, or take an airplane or train or boat?

Thank you, Mr. Kos, for questioning the parenting abilities of the grandfather who volunteered to fight in WWII after Pearl Harbor and leaving his wife and seven children at home. Thank you for questioning the parenting abilities of the father who volunteered for the Navy and served in Korea while leaving his wife and three children at home. Thank you for questioning the parenting abilities of the cousin who is a county deputy and patrols the highways on the graveyard shift while leaving his wife and two kids at home.

“Irwin didn’t give a crap about his kids” – That’s how Kos’ post came across, and that’s how Kos wanted it to come across. Irwin’s corpse is still warm, and we are treated to this. This kind of mean-spirited attack on a dead man is Kos’s signature tactic. “Screw em” the catch phrase he used to describe US civilians killed in Iraq. If this is “Compassionate Liberalism”, I’m glad I’m a Conservative.

He’s one of those sad sacks who only defines himself by what he despises because he doesn’t actually love anything. A guy in his thirties with teenager bumper stickers on his laptop. Sad, actually, were it not for the fact that his words “command” thousands of minds.

Kos cannot understand any commitment, job, or duty of anyone else in the world that involves something other than Hating Bush. Kos himself cannot understand that Irwin did a great deal for worldwide wildlife causes. Kos cannot understand that Irwin was an ardent and outspoken conservationist. Kos cannot understand that Irwin constantly promoted a healthy Earth ecosystem. Kos saw the world mourning the loss of a beloved man and thought to himself, “How can I spin this to make myself sound like a superior person and parent to Irwin, seeing as how I’m basically a bug-eyed little wuss who hates and fears real men?”

But on to the comments by the Kos faithful:

He didnt deserve to die. But he certainly asked for it day in and day out. Gotta keep chasin that high. He needed that high everyday. Any heroin user knows somewhere in their hollowed out shell that this will be the day that I die. he was extraordinarily reckless The guy took unnecessary risks time and time again. It’s as simple as that. It was a needlessly stupid and unnecessary risk to take. I don’t give one fart how “experienced” Irwin was. Think of it as a shoo-in for the Darwin Awards this year. Maybe his kids will grow up to be a little more careful. But let’s face it – he was a parody of himself most of the time. I think Irwin’s work as a conservationist was unfortunately overshadowed by his shameless exhibitionism and his plain looney disrespect for other animals. I have never seen such disrespect for animals, oh except for in a rodeo. He was a boor who disregarded what nature was screaming at him, and it was only a matter of time. Yes it was a freak accident, unless you look at how many close calls Irwin had had over the years. Then it seems like just deserts. We all know Irwin met with Bush several times. This is another example of the right-wing noise machine pulling attention away from other matters. If he wasn’t so concerned for glory he might have discerned the difference between doing what was absolutely necessary and showing off. The guy poked at wild animals for a living. No freak accident when you go looking for it. this guy never really had a repect for his own safety. He was very reckless. But let’s get real, the guy was reckless and a grandstander. And he made a lot of money doing it. I always considered him an embarassment. And a fraud, being as he faked so much of his show. The guy did what he did because he got well paid to do it. Snakeholes with cameras in the bottom of them… and fake, and/or drugged, snakes. What he did was stupid. It smacks of thrillseeking

“By their fruits shall ye know them.”

Poorly timed. Cruel. Insensitive. Disappointing. Sheer ego and self-righteousness and holier-than-thou. Ignorant. Backstabbing. Snickering. Malevolent. Reprehensible. Ugly. Entirely unfair. Nauseating. Morose. Callous. Way out of line. Meanspirited. Knee-jerk and uninformed. Pathetic. Disgusting. Hypocritical. Deplorable. Possibly engineered purely to drive artificial hits to his blog, or a ‘vanity’ post. A great showcase of “blame the victim” mentality. But it is a brutal and unnecessary thing to say about a good person who had just been killed.

There is nothing outside of politics for Liberals. It’s their oxygen. Everything is Bu$hitler/Neocon/PNAC/Jews/Blue vs. Red, all day, all the time, all year ’round. Even when they’re sitting around getting high they’re probably complaining about this stuff. People with no moral compass.

A completely cavalier and baseless parade of insults against someone these people don’t even know. It’s hard to grasp the shallow and nasty personality of someone who would do such a thing – like walking down the beach and kicking over the sandcastles of strangers – but such is the mindset of the Frustrated And Angry Left. The Left are intimidated by tough and principled men. These are the same folks that call anyone currently serving in the US military “stupid.”

The Left hate men of good strong character. They prefer to worship or idolize the weak minded and the capitulating middle-of-the-road types. The only time they actually get brave is when they attack something or someone who is great; they feel better about being mediocre themselves when they do so.

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