Apparently it is important for us to nail down whether the guy who shot and killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum is a right-wing nutjob or a left-wing nutjob. I just want to make it ABSOLUTELY clear that THIS is the BS that causes the vast majority of the population to tune out the news and political discourse. It’s no wonder that almost every time somebody talks trash about the status quo here in Washington and how they’re gonna lay down the law they win big.
Here is a perfect example of how the blogosphere can get it horribly, egregiously wrong.
Ben Smith at Politico reported that the address of the Weekly Standard’s office was found on said nutjob. Smith believes that this totally thwarts the leftys’ contentions that the nutjob was a righty.
Jonathan Chait at The New Republic said NUH UH! He’s just an uber righty.
James Kirchick at The New Republic was still pretty sure he was a righty, but also said that leftys aren’t completely incapable of being anti-Semitic nutjobs and it’s all 9/11 and Ron Paul’s fault.
Then, Ben Smith responded to Chait and Kirchick. He stuck to his guns, but said he probably didn’t express himself well enough.
Chait, for his part, dug his heels in and managed to acknowledge some of Kirchick’s argument while sticking to his point that the nutjob was clearly a righty.
Today is just one of those days when I feel like a certain wart covered lady…
