Posted by
JTB on Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:43:39 PM
When I was on the book tour for Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild,
critics predictably countered by playing the moral equivalence card.
Show them how intolerant, racist, sexist, hateful,
conspiratorial-minded, and violent the Left can be, and they sputter
“B-b-b-b-b-ut the Right is just as bad.”
Spend anytime in the blogosphere and it’s clear that the two sides of the political galaxy are not created equal. One side burns effigies of American soldiers and craps on the American flag. The other does not. One side wraps itself in assassination chic. The other does not. One side indulges in vicious Sambo photoshops, rank religious bigotry, death wishes, gloating over the illnesses of public figures, and fill-in-the-blank derangement syndrome. The other does not.
Read the rest on her excellent blog.