One angry email and one - or more - flaming posts. Other blogs, I know, get more anger, but we tend to be civil. Where does this come from?
First, an email response to today's post highlighting the introspective liberal:
What dribble but coming from a party who's (sic) hero is a big fat white guy on the radio who needs drugs to get an erection what can you expect?
Our reader 1) Failed to realize that the piece was written by an ardent liberal and 2) Failed to respond to a single point in Taibbi's entire essay and 3) somehow tried to turn the discussion into a discussion of Rush Limbaugh's potency. Slightly off-topic?
Second, this comment on the same post:
Aaah, you mean like such not-angry and thoughtful political philosophers as Rush Limbaugh, Mike Levin, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Neil Boortz, and Michelle Malkin, right? If only liberals could bring to their movement the authenticity and intellectual consistency of the three pillars of modern Republicanism: nigger-hatred, religious fanaticism, and proto-fascist war-mongering.
Please tell me this: Where is the hate on Maggie's Farm? There is none, although we are certainly in favor of killing Jihadists who war against us and want to kill us. We posted a thoughtful liberal viewpoint, as we occasionally do, and we received such hateful - but contentless -comments...from liberals! I just don't get it.
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We will engage anyone on the issues and on the merits, if done in a neighborly and respectful manner. The only thing we are knee-jerk about here is Freedom and the freedom and autonomy of the God-made human individual.
