MEDIA LOSER: Ben Domenech
Fox News contributor and Spectator editor-at-large Ben Domenech went after service members in a heated Twitter spat with a veteran on Saturday.
Domenech’s outrage was triggered by a Fox News opinion piece from Lucas Kunce, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran and Democratic Senate candidate in Missouri.
Kunce’s piece argues that Republicans “turned their backs on veterans like me” by delaying the PACT Act, a bill to care for veterans and 9/11 first responders exposed to toxic chemicals.
“Many struggle with chronic respiratory issues. Migraines. Cancer," Kunce wrote.
"So imagine how we all felt on Thursday, watching all these Republicans, most of whom have never even worn the uniform, throw us a giant middle finger?”
Domenech went after the column on Twitter, calling it “authoritarian horsecrap” to use a vote on burn pits to try and get rid of the filibuster.
"You do not get to sweep away the tenets of government because it doesn't accord to your wishes," he added.
The tweet prompted an intense Twitter exchange, with Kunce responding, "I got sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, so I’ll be damned if some Bush White House toady is going to lecture me about democracy.”
"I don't think we needed to pay you to travel across the world and murder brown people, Lucas," Domenech shot back.
"You should probably send that money back."
While Domenech held several mid-level positions in the Bush administration, he clarified that he "left the GOP in 2006 over Iraq."
Regardless of one's stance on the Iraq War, going after veterans burdened with health complications is a grossly misguided way to criticize pretty much anything -- especially if done in an attempt to defend a Senate procedure. |