Ted Rall Update: The Challenge Has Been Met, Says Rall
Ted Rall has admitted that he has begun to get real examples of disgusting liberal hate speech, and cites my earlier post as one of the entries that has met the challenge (though he misspells my name – oh, well).
My earlier prediction (and I said it’s a slam dunk, Mr. President – can you spot the irony?) has turned out to be wrong; since Rall has been gracious enough to acknowledge that I did, in fact, meet his challenge, I am sending him a gracious email acknowledging my appreciation.
There is a point to all this silliness: hate speech on both sides is out there, but (even though I *still* maintain it’s far more prevalent on the left) it’s up to those of us who wish to be reasonable to condemn those, even those on our side, who engage in verbal and physical intimidation.
So, unlikely as it may seem, I salute you, Mr. Rall, for surprising me this time.
UPDATE 05:15 p.m. - As I read this again, it sounds a bit ‘braggy’; it wasn’t me that met the challenge, I just happened to get mentioned; it was, of course, the blogging community (as Rall said, he’s received hundreds of responses). So, hey, thanks again to all who link here and to those who read my little chicken-scratching..I’m having fun, and I hope you are, too.
[...] Ted Rall, the hard-left pundit that I once forced to publicly back down from his ridiculous assertion that the right was more hateful than the left (well, me, and others), is apparently an American only when everything goes exactly the way he wants it to: “The absence of a call for broader national sacrifice in a time of war has become a near constant topic of discussion among officers and enlisted personnel,” [a brigadier] general claims. [...]