Apparently, a bunch of the kool kidz over at the Blogging Tories are downright appalled at the disgusting classlessness of racially-tinged photoshopping.
I can't wait for someone to explain this to Kate McMillan. I suggest the "short straw" method but, then again, anything involving conversation with Kate McMillan pretty much defines a short straw moment, doesn't it?
From the "Department of Interesting Parallels": There are clearly some things up with which we will not put:
The bitter Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut erupted in fresh controversy Wednesday over a doctored photo of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) in blackface that was posted by a blogger who has been an influential promoter of challenger Ned Lamont.
Lieberman angrily demanded that Lamont denounce the action and sever all ties with Jane Hamsher, the founder of the Web log Firedoglake, who posted the photo on another blog, HuffingtonPost.com.
So ... the unequivocal denunciation by a politician of a supporter who's accused of outright bigotry and racism? Are you sure you want to go down that road? You just never know which innocent bystanders are going to get caught in the crossfire.
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Well, since I haven't denounced Jane Hamsher, I'd better do it now, before I get sucked into the cess-pit of rightwing swarming.
*ahem*....Off with Jane Hamsher's head!!! Quisling, delusional democrats who support illegal invasions and the subsequent deaths of thousands of innocent children should join me in my outrage....!!!
There. That ought to shut Peter Rempel up.
Bbbut -- Stephen Taylor, just made another post recently over the RRRightGirl affair about how it's just downright UNFAIR for people to use "guilt by association" to tar people who promote, endorse, support intolerance towards ethnic or religious groups.
And Ezra's come out swinging that this kind of thing is just the "free market place of ideas" in action.. even though he bans people from commenting if they gore any of his sacred cows.
Guess the rest of the blogging tory machine or shotgunners up in arms about this photoshopped thingy, haven't gotten these memos.
It's so hard for me to think like a CPC'er. It requires a type of lying or delusion I'm just not capable of.
So, for example...in the Hamsher "blackface" affair, what would be the equivalent for progressives? Could it be the tale of some booze-addled moron calling for the extermination of people based on their religion at The Western Standard's blog, The Shotgun?
Seriously, I'm suffering a failure of imagination here.
Stephen Taylor, can you help?
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