-By Warner Todd Huston
A few days ago I was rummaging through the web and ran across a tiny little blog hosted by the Houston Chronicle. It is written by a fine example of civility and perspicacity named Bobbie Cavnar. The post I saw was a perfect example of what I called the “nutrooters” going crazy beating up on George Stephanopoulos and the ABC Democratic Debate team after the ABC debates on the 18th. Needless to say, like most of the extreme leftists of the netroots, ol’ Bobbie was furious that anyone dared force Barack Obama to answer some tough questions about his character.
(And, um, as an aside, wasn’t that whole “character” deal the very thing everyone on the extreme left wanted to talk about when brining up George W. Bush’s past drinking problems and his unproven “AWOL” status with the Texas National Guard during the 2000 and 2004 elections? I’m juss sayin’.)
Well, after discovering Cavnar’s erroneous analysis on the ABC debate I wrote my piece to address Bobbie’s little rant on his dead tree hosted blog. I called it “ABC Debate Obama Flag Pin Question ‘Planted from the Right’? Nutrooters REALLY losing it now!.”
Well, it seems my post has sent our pal Bob into frenzied paroxysms of pure emotion driven fury. As a result, our old buddie Cavie went off on a spit speckled rage in reply to my mild questioning of him that was one part untruth, one part partisan talking points and four parts pure name-calling. (I know that’s six parts, but he REALLY lost it here, so extra points for vitriol.)
The Cavmeister’s post was really instructive, though. Cavie’s response really shows how the left conducts a “debate.” When confronted with things they don’t like, reason and civility leaves them faster than sanity leaves the man who walks into his own bedroom and sees his best friend in bed with his wife!
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