Kos Kids Go Postal Over Magazine Cover With Barack in the Crosshairs

By Duane Lester • May 22nd, 2008 • 432 Views

The Roswell Beacon featured an article detailing how law enforcement officials were going to deal with racists who might be gunning for Barack. It is a great idea for an article, because that has to be an interesting subject. However, the Kos kids were a little upset with the graphic they chose for the cover of the magazine.

A diarist named “spiralstairs” wrote on Daily Kos, “The article itself is not offensive, but the cover is beyond the pale. As indicated by the article, there are some serious racists in the area, and Obama’s candidacy has brought out the worst in a lot of people. The last thing we need is a newspaper to suggest assassination with an incendiary cover such as this.”

Readers — Kos receives more than 1.3 million visits a day, according to sitemeter.com — were encouraged to contact the newspaper and its advertisers. By day’s end, Holiday Inn announced it would no longer do business with the Beacon…

The paper’s publisher said the Kossacks were using “liberal blogger thuggery.”

Well, yeah. That’s what they do. Now you have a cover story for next edition.

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