Daily Kos Retracts False Report About Matt Walsh Being Upset ‘More People Weren’t Killed’ at Colorado Gay Nightclub
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Liberal blog Daily Kos retracted on Tuesday a story that suggested right-wing commentator Matt Walsh was “upset” that “more people weren’t killed'” at the LGBTQ nightclub where a gunman over the weekend killed five people and wounded 25 others.
The piece bore the headline “Matt Walsh only upset ‘more people weren’t killed’ at Club Q: Twitter takes highlight GOP hypocrisy.”
However, Walsh did not say such a thing. Instead, he tweeted on Sunday, the day after the shooting, “Leftists are using a mass shooting to try and blackmail us into accepting the castration and sexualization of children. These people are just beyond evil. I have never felt more motivated to oppose everything they stand for, with every fiber of my being. Despicable scumbags.”
In a response to Walsh using screenshots, civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo tweeted, “Matt Walsh isn’t upset that someone shot up a gay bar, he’s upset that more people weren’t killed. He has a bloodlust for the murder of LGBTQ people. He’s doubling down on it and wants more of it.”
The quote in the headline was taken from that reply, not from Walsh’s tweets.
The Daily Wire sent Daily Kos an email over the headline, demanding a retraction and apology and notified them that the conservative publication’s legal team has been referred to about the piece.
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The piece was since retracted.
The headline was replaced with the word “Retracted” and the text with “In a previous headline for this article, we misattributed a quote to Matt Walsh. We regret not properly quoting Walsh’s tweet. This article is in direct violation of our editorial policy, and we have removed it.”
Walsh celebrated the retraction.
“Update: the Daily Kos has retracted their defamatory headline and confessed to misquoting me. I take great pleasure in knowing how painful it was for them to do as I demand and admit guilt,” he tweeted.
