WHO IS MARKOS ZUNIGA?
What a Loon... Only in the Blogosphere

The blog world is great in that it creates a voice for people that never had a public voice. It also brings into the spotlight unknown writers and their insights that need to be heard. I'm all for diversity of opinions and enjoy heated debates and reasonable discussions, but when you get a loon and loser like Markos Zuniga it spoils the air like sulfur and rotten eggs.

The buzz around the blogosphere is his recent hate-filled rant against some of the people that recently were killed in Falluja attack:

"That said, I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them."

I don't care if you don't agree with the war or hate Bush, but to wish or enjoy the death of people, especially Americans, is messed up. What a loon, and it's sad that his blog is the leading liberal blog. I believe that is simply reflective of the lack of quality liberal blogs out there. If you examine the top 50 blogs, the majority and most read blogs are right-leaning blogs. Does that mean the majority of blog readers are right-leaning? I don't believe it's skewed to that degree. I believe there is a lack of quality bloggers from the left for whatever reasons, which allows hate-filled nuts like Markos Zuniga lead the pack. Sad.

Great commentary on this by Powerline, LGF, and Powerline again. Kerry actually took a stand on something (avoiding a fire) and pulled a link to Zuniga's blog off his site.

Mark A. R. Kleiman has another viewpoint, and also Kevin Drum from the left on this. At least the other prominent left-leaning bloggers aren't supporting "Loony" Zuniga on his recent rant.