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.”
Update, 1/9/23: Mediaite has edited their original report.
[The retraction will likely suffice … legally, anyway. — Ed]
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