All the news that's fit to ignore: Part 2.

Having already gifted annoying commenter "goombah" with a new orifice back here, we now move on to show how, even as goombah is staggering to his feet from that first bludgeoning of irrefutable logic, we can deliver yet another good hoof to the family jewels.

See, it's not only that the Blogging Tories, for the most part, ignore the objectively real news in exchange for promoting complete fluff. No, what makes it even more hilarious is that they ignore the news that relates directly to the very basis of their ideological worldview.

These are the people who whine on and on and teeth-gnashingly on about supporting the troops and if you don't support the troops, you're a traitor and how, by God, the most important thing you can do for the troops is to wear red every Friday and nauseatingly idiotic rubbish like that. And yet, curiously, when breaking news involves how thousands of wounded and disabled American soldiers are living in disgusting conditions at the Walter Reed medical facility, what you get from these troop-loving patriots is ... crickets. A total and deafening silence.

It's sort of like whinging on endlessly about being pro-family and pro-life and how desperately you care about the children, then being monumentally disinterested in the ongoing story of a 9-year-old Canadian boy who's locked up in a Texas detention facility in appalling conditions.

No, goombah, you don't get a pass on this. When you're part of a blogging collective that's made an entire career out of telling heart-wrenching stories about how much you love the soldiers and the children, you don't get to avert your eyes when real news about those very topics finally explodes onto the screen. You don't get to ignore those stories just so you have more time and blog space to tell us all about how Al Gore has a big house, you dim-witted little weasel. Is any of this sinking in?

What is, of course, amusing about all of this is that, while the lower forms of life in the right-wing, Canadian wankersphere (a.k.a. the "Blogging Tories") have spared no energy in ignoring these stories, it's ironically all those troop-hating, baby-killing lefties who've been all over these current events like a Catholic priest on an altar boy.

Note carefully that, while the White House is doing everything it can to downplay the Walter Reed scandal, it's the Democrats who are leaping into action to do something about it. And while the BTs apparently couldn't give a shit about a Canadian boy incarcerated in Texas, it's the Progressive Bloggers of Canada who've been burning up the blogosphere trying to get something done. Or hadn't you noticed, goombah?

So it's not only that the BTs are ignoring the objectively big news these days, they're ignoring the big news that you normally can't get them to shut the fuck up about. Unless it turns out to be ideologically inconvenient. Then they can't avert their eyes fast enough.

Coming later today: Part 3, in which we tie up some loose ends, and send goombah on his way back to Stupidville.