You gotta hand it to the people who run Pandagon. Aside from just being a bunch of leftwing nuts, their selective outrage is astonishing. It's even more surprising that so many sycophants eat up their clueless rants about Republicans, conservatives, religious believers and anyone else who lands within range of their spittle.
For example, there's this Pam Spaulding post on the killing of a woman by the KKK in Louisiana.
If the Republicans don’t clean out the bigots, mouthbreathers, and domestic terrorists in their midst, patriots like this filth in Louisiana will be party leaders before long.
There's nothing in the story to tie this group, which calls itself the Dixie Brotherhood, to the GOP, except that Louisiana went for John McCain.
I dunno. Maybe Spaulding needs to check her history books, because the Klan was filled with Democrats for the vast majority of its history, right up to the present, including sitting Senators. And when Barack Obama talked about white people in Pennsylvania--a Democrat state--having "antipathy towards those who don't look like them," he wasn't talking about Republicans, Pam).
But, hey, why let facts get in the way of a perfectly good smear?
Spaulding's selective outrage, like the rest of the cartoon characters at Pandagon, is way too easy to spot. It's like doing Seek N Finds for first graders. Sure, I understand her anger at the KKK. Normal people are angry at their disgusting behavior. But oddly enough, Spaulding doesn't cast a single aspersion towards the haters who have threatened, insulted and tried to intimidate (by publishing names, addresses and phone numbers of those who donated to Yes on 8) those who think traditional marriage is a good idea. I guess it's ok as long as it's a good cause, like overturning the will of the people.
But let's see what happens when we rewrite Spaulding's post to reflect the sort of outrage she should have displayed:
If the Democrats don’t clean out the bigots, mouthbreathers, and domestic terrorists in their midst, patriots like this filth in California will be party leaders before long.
Wow, that actually looks good! Too bad we'll never see a post castigating "bigots, mouthbreathers, and domestic terrorists" from the Left at Pandagon.
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