BB--


Well, OK, --you may not be intellectually dishonest--you may be ignorant instead. You may not realize there is a difference between radical leftists and liberals. But your attempted assertion that liberals hate anything but the "party line" is patently absurd. Just look at the 2004 election. If you don't think that environmentalists, labor activists, civil rights advocates, and other "single issue" groups came together--and voted for Kerry--though he was a long way from the ideal candidate--you haven't done enough reading. (In certified leftist rags like the Wall St Journal).

It's fairly obvious to me why Kerry lost--despite the willingness of various liberal groups to come together behind him.

1) the magnificently successful (and despicable) propaganda campaign by the Bushites to tell the US public what to fear---terrorists and homosexuals. (And, no doubt, especially homosexual terrorists)

2 the willingness of the UN to act as honest broker between the various Iraqi factions--making possible an Iraqi face (Allawi) on the opposition to the insurgency--and thereby giving the lie to the assertion of the US Left that Iraq was Vietnam Quagmire II.

(As I've said before, Bush therefore owes his 2004 election to----the UN.)



Your and Cohen's attempt to draw a parallel between 1968 and 2008 fails--totally.

As I've said, neither of you have yet come up with any evidence to support it. A columnist's meanderings does not, I'm sorry to say, constitute proof.

But if you don't realize there is a difference between liberals and radical leftists--of the 1968 variety--you are indeed ignorant. You would have been better off to leave Cohen's original "Digital Lynch Mob" as your title--at least you wouldn't have to try to defend your own--indefensible--title.

Just think a little before you post--at least before you put your title in. It would help.