More on the fallout of Dana Loesch's "I'd Drop Trou" Scandal

This evening, we have more news to report on Dana Loesch's "I'd Drop Trou and Do It Too"  comment. Real Time With Bill Maher host and Fauxgressive Bill Maher (of which Loesch was a guest on twice) agrees with Loesch's violent assessment on the US Marines peeing on dead Taliban corpses.

NY Daily News's Aliyah Shahid:

Bill Maher wants to know what all the fuss is about.
The liberal, HBO comedian argued the outrage over video purportedly depicting four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, is being blown out of proportion.
Maher called the incident "distasteful" Friday on his "Real Time" show, but added, "A dead body is just, you know a f------ body that's dead and it just doesn't bother me."
He also went on to say Americans have committed worse offenses, like torture, and said it depended "what the people they were pissing on did."
"If they were real Taliban, if they were people who burned down girls' schools, and, you know, do honor rapes and throw acid in people's faces, I'm not that upset about pissing on them," he said.
Maher's criticism echo CNN contributor and conservative radio hostDana Loesch, who saluted the Marines on her show, even adding that would have been willing to join them.
"Can someone explain to me if there is supposed to be a scandal that someone pees on the corpse of a Taliban fighter -- someone who as part of an organization murdered over 3,000 Americans," she said on her show. "I'd drop trou and do it too. That's me, though…Come on people this is a war." 

From the 01.13.2012 edition of HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher:

Then, biased as hell Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit defender her insensitive remarks about the US Marines Urination Scandal.

The media wants us to cuddle with the terrorists. To reach out and hug the Taliban. To find common ground with the Islamist killer.Not Dana Loesch.
Congratulations Dana!Thank you for your clarity.

No, Mr. Hoft, we should NOT be congratulating Dana Loesch, but condemning her instead.


News Corpse::

Nevertheless, CNN contributor Dana Loesch (who is also a Tea Party leader and the editor-in-chief of Andrew Breitbart’s BigJournalism) took to the air to exacerbate the offense and defend the soldiers saying…
“Now we have a bunch of progressives that are talking smack about our military because there were marines caught urinating on corpses, Taliban corpses. Can someone explain to me if there’s supposed to be a scandal that someone pees on the corpse of a Taliban fighter? Someone who, as part of an organization, murdered over 3,000 Americans? I’d drop trou and do it too. That’s me though. I want a million cool points for these guys.” 

The subsequent controversy erupting from Loesch’s offensive remarks has generated a secondary controversy centered on the appropriate role of news analysts and the lines drawn for decency and civil discourse. Loesch, in a tacit acknowledgement that her comments crossed the line, sought to defend herself by claiming that she was not condoning the Marines, but ridiculing the media response. But the dishonesty of that excuse is apparent just by re-reading her statement. She explicitly says that she would do the same thing the Marines did and praises them for being “cool.” If that isn’t condoning the behavior, what is?
Loesch’s web site, BigJournalism has gone to work to absolve her sins, not by demonstrating that her comments were appropriate, but by attacking anyone who criticized her. They started with Politico, a news operation started by unabashed conservative journalists, and tagged them as leftists because of their article that merely reported that the controversy exists. John Nolte, editor-in-chief of Breitbart’s BigHollywood, desperately stretched to imply a bias by Politico because the article included this: 

“I’ve reached out to CNN to ask for their response to Loesch’s comments, andwhether or not it will have any impact on her role at CNN.” Nolte’s emphasis.Riehl’s evidence is an article by Media Matters that correctly observes that Loesch’s comments were Too Extreme For Rush Limbaugh. Riehl disputes that assessment mainly by changing the subject. He utterly ignores the fact that Limbaugh, with reference to the Marines, said explicitly that“There’s no defense of this.” But Riehl peels away from that fact to post a rambling quote from Tea Party Republican Allen West that also advocates punishing the Marines and says outright that “The Marines were wrong.” It appears that the fixation is on Riehl’s part to avoid the reality that the behavior of these particular soldiers was indefensible to almost everyone but Loesch. 

As for Loesch, her own defense that she published on BigJournalism was an incoherent jumble of phony patriotism and self-aggrandizement. Her primary argument was that…
“There is a difference in advocating for the Marines to break the law, which I didn’t do, and defending them from overly-dramatic hysteria.”
It is, however, perfectly appropriate to question news analysts who engage in a dialogue that advocates unlawful acts in the conduct of a war. CNN should take the responsible steps to review incidents wherein contributors bring disrepute to their network. But I don’t anticipate that they will. 

The current head of CNN, Ken Jautz, is the hack who gave Glenn Beck his first job on television. He also recently hired Beck associate Will Cain. These two uber-rightists share the air with CNN contributor Erick Erickson, who called former Supreme Court Justice David Souter a “goat-fucking child molester.” And it was under Jautz that CNN partnered with the corrupt AstroTurf PR firm, Tea Party Express, to host a GOP debate.
The hard-right turn that CNN has taken has landed them squarely in third place. And that decline is due in large part to people like Loesch. The American people are not looking for this kind of substanceless, bombastic, hate-speech from their news sources. They can get that from Fox News. And if anyone’s job should be in jeoprady, it is the person at the helm, Ken Jautz.

She's an idiot.

UPDATE: Loesch was disinvited (largely due to her offensive remarks) from an Illinois Policy Institute meeting in O'Fallon, Illinois yesterday. Maybe her comments were too extreme for them, but apparently not for CNN and her home station KFTK.

Petition for CNN to fire Dana Loesch: http://www.change.org/petitions/cnn-fire-dana-loesch

More coverage:
CNN's own colleagues condemn Loesch's vile remarks (DanaBusted)
http://justinspoliticalcorner.tumblr.com/tagged/Dana-Loesch
On Big Journalism, Loesch made a shoddy defense of her offensive statement about the Marines yesterday (DanaBusted)
Loesch's blatant Islamophobia strikes again by cheering on the urination of Taliban corpses (DanaBusted)
Loesch Cheers Soldiers Who Urinated On Corpses, Says She Would "Drop Trou" And Do It Herself (St. Louis Activist Hub)