...really into this argument, because I am confident you and I will argue about many other things in the future and we should save some of that for my real hot button issues (and racial progress isn't really one of them), but just because people get riled up by your remarks does not by definition make them true or worthy (unless your point is to instigate fiery reactions rather than to shed light on an issue).   If I said that the Conservative Movement was the current American propaganda arm of Al Queda, and you objected to that and emotionally told me how wrong I was, that wouldn't mean "I must be right" just because you decided to tell me off.  Sometimes posts are just stupid/ignorant/galling/ hypocritical/insane and need to be denounced as such.  I blasted Governor Palin for her outrageously mean-spirited, disingenuous, victim-centric, arrogant, cynical and stupefyingly unqualified VP campaign.  You aren't going to tell me that because I figured that the most insulting, embarrassing, buffoonish national ticket campaign in modern American history deserved copious paragraphs of scorn and lament and derision, in reality she must have been right about everything she said and did.  Sometimes the absolute shamefulness of a politician like that demands virulent commentary.  Don't get into the ridiculous Conservative pundit habit of assuming that the world's reactions revolve around the points you make, and the winner is the one who causes the most people to be disgusted by you.

by Milltycoon on 07/03/2009 01:51:50 AM EST

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