John Cole speaks for all of us:
This is what I hate about blogging. The premise that the troops hate Obama is so stupid that it is laughable, but you have to push back. Yet, the moment you push back, you are now engaging the idiots like Red State and Uncle Jimbo as if they have something legitimate to say. Really, the only response is to just mock these morons.
Indeed. And the same applies for fighting it out in online forums -- you never can be sure whether it's worth it to engage the wingnuts, but you hate to let their revisionist history, their dismissal of reality, their eagerness to smear, and their bigoted bile stand unchallenged. To do so is to continue to allow what has happened elsewhere in the media -- "liberal" became a pejorative, dissent became treason, and a "balanced" panel on the typical cable yak show evolved into a lineup consisting of someone from the far right fringe, two conservatives, and one inside-the-Beltway moderate.
But yeah, we do have humor. Hard as it is to find, sometimes.
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