That whole Kos thing?
August over at xoverboard says it well:
In the three years I’ve been blogging I’ve seen college professors knowingly lie. I’ve seen gay men sell out their very soul for the sake of pretending that their President doesn’t consider them an abomination. I’ve seen brilliant women with the most clever minds for pop culture force themselves to act stupid for the sake of convincing themselves of the infallibility of recent foreign policy. The right-wing blogosphere has removed itself from any realm of rational discourse and instead established only one principle: win the argument. It doesn’t even matter to them what the fucking argument is. If some liberal said something, they’re either a hypocrite, a liar, or a traitor. Don’t worry, you’ll make some shit up to validate that a little later.
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I think there are way too many times when we actually bother to entertain these attempts from warbloggers to feel much more important about what they’re doing than they actually are. I think shows like Crossfire would have survived- and thrived- if people on the left just responded to Bob Novak by saying “are you fucking kidding me?” and staring his bullshit down with supressed laughter until he ran off the stage crying. Conservatives try to implicate the left for “lowering the discourse.” They’re not worried about us lowering- or raising- the discourse. They’re worried that we might get a clue and stop engaging them in discourse.
The Republic of Palau at Take it as red says it even better:
Note to lefty bloggers: shit or get off the pot. Kos is a lawyer. So sue the fuckers for libel, and name O’Reilly, and Fox as co- defendant with the WSJ. Every time they republish the lie it’s defamation. It’s not as though the evidence isn’t there. Keeping on blogging about how badly done-by you’ve been merely keeps the story alive. If it’s money that’s the issue, I’m sure we can all help. And it’s not as though there’s no precedent: a Boston judge is sueing a reporter for libel for reporting that he told a 14yr old rape victim to ‘get over it’, a libel repeated, surprise surprise, by O’Reilly and Fox.