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Thursday, June 11, 2009
 
Joan Walsh: Clueless

I had to chuckle at this chuckleheaded column at Salon:

If there's a through-line between any of these acts of terrorism and the right-wing rhetoric that abets it, of course, it's the one linking Bill O'Reilly to Scott Roeder, the man who murdered Tiller. O'Reilly more than demonized Tiller; night after night he called him a baby killer, compared him to the Nazis, and suggested that he must be stopped. Roeder stopped him, all right. If I were O'Reilly I'd feel terrible for putting a private figure in my public sights night after night, simply for doing his lawful job. But O'Reilly has no conscience, so he's proud of it.


Well, it is nice to see a liberal standing up to oppose calling people "baby-killers" and comparing people to Nazis.
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Sunday, June 07, 2009
 
Lib Blogger Outed

By Ed Whelan at Bench Memos, "Publius" of Obsidian Wings.

Some forthright condemnation from the right side of the blogs:

The point is, there are a lot of good reasons for bloggers to remain anonymous and Ed Whalen has no right to decide differently just because he got steamed about someone’s response to his analysis. Did Publius commit a crime? Was he slandering Whalen? If not, Whalen’s fit of personal pique looks low, tawdry, childish, and vengeful. The closest Publius got to getting personal with Whelan was in calling him a “know-nothing demagogue.” And this was after making the point that Whelan knew better and was simply pandering to conservative sensibilities.


And James Joyner:

Jeopardizing a man’s career and family relationships over something so petty is simply shameful.


I admit to being a bit torn here. On the one hand, a blog should stand or fall on the merits of the writing and the arguments made, not on the reputation of the writer. On the other hand, I am uncomfortable that the shield of internet anonymity not allow somebody to make poor arguments and lies just because he knows that they will not redound against him personally. I see no evidence however that was the case in this instance; about the worst that can be said for Publius is that he used ad hominems at times.

Still, I don't have the benefit of anonymity, and I'm just a bit jealous at times of those who do.

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Greatest Liberal Book Title Ever

Charles Pierce should sell a great many copies of his book, Idiot America, subtitled How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free.

Isn't that just a perfect title, encapsulating the real attitude of the left towards America? And why are we "idiots"? Because we don't endorse the liberal program. BTW, note where Pierce gained his fame:

Enter Charlie Pierce, whose wickedly funny and incisive observations first wormed their way into my brain when I started listening years ago to NPR's game show, "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." In his new book, Idiot America, Pierce eviscerates this Epoch of “Dignitude” and bemoans the mainstreaming of the American Crank. Taking on the likes of would-be soapbox stars such as Jonah Goldberg (whose Liberal Fascism Pierce describes as having been "written with a paint roller"), the founders of the Creation Museum with its dressage saddle-wearing dinosaur, and the defendants in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Charlie Pierce pulls away the curtain on the selling techniques that have duped the country into its current state of imbecility.


Yep, another America-hating crank who got his big start on NPR.

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