Earlier today, the Washington Post published allegations that Mitt Romney was a bully back in prep school (link). I didn't read the story, but that's not what this post is about.
Instead, this is a meta post: the WaPo's story is yet another example of how the establishment media is going to help Barack Obama be reelected. The media will publish or broadcast story after story just like the current...
... would have been sexist.
UPDATE: Ann Althouse chides me for encouraging discourtesy [note: link], but most commenters seem to disagree.
Many of Althouse's commenters are even less interested in what's the U.S.'s best interests than Reynolds, so take that with a grain of salt.
... beginning of this video from Ann Althouse: peekURL.com/vdgc9fa ).
The basic trickery used goes something like this: "Al Gore worries about global warming. Al Gore is a bad person. Therefore, you shouldn't worry about global warming. In fact, you should do the opposite and help our corporate friends pollute." Obviously, that's a fallacy, but it's also obviously one that the tea partiers and...
... blogging for me, but I'll persevere. Ann Althouse conducted a poll to determine who's more of a hack: Glenn Reynolds or Andrew Sullivan. Althouse is, of course, a Reynolds partisan. I left a comment [1] on the poll that was critical of both (albeit more critical of Reynolds). Someone then left a pseudononymous nastygram reply [2].
Thankfully, that polling software includes the first three digits...