Have you discovered Discover the Network yet? It's quite a joy, if you derive joy from the hallucinations of stark raving batshit insane neo-McCarthyite David Horowitz, who continues to labor under the delusion that everyone to his political left hates America as much as he used to. Oh look, there's B.J. Honeycutt right next to Mohammed Atta! There's al-Zarqawi right above The Boss! Didn't you know that they were part of a "network"?
Right. This is possibly the most stomach-turningly slanderous thing I've seen yet from the War Party, but it's useful in that we finally have a clear and undeniable picture of the conservative style, which is to contend that anyone who is critical of the U.S. and/or Israel is undifferentiated from those who actually plot and commit terrorism.
These kinds of attacks from the Right, and they are more and more frequent, always present liberals with a quandary. To ignore this pseudo-fascist bullshit would cause its authors to insist to a nodding Fox News head that they're "obviously on to something," while criticizing or otherwise engaging with it would assign it credibility which it clearly doesn't deserve. In any case, Michael Berube correctly points out that crap like this isn't meant to argue any particular point or to engage in reasoned debate, only to intimidate and to slander.
Also, I didn't notice any bloggers on the Enemies List. What's up with that, Dave?
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