... 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...