"Not having a TV doesn't make anyone eccentric but it does have a tendency to make them smug."

1. Apparently this person didn't bother to read my post about the physical effects of TV viewing.

2. You will all have heard the phrase 'blaming the victim.' I've thought of a parallel phrase, and it's:

Mocking the critic.

Examples:

environmentalists are tree-huggers
feminists are strident
people in favor of equality are nigger-lovers
people who don't want drunkenness are party poopers

and people who want something better on TV are smug, snobs or pseudo-intellectuals.   

This is a bully's technique. Tell a bully he's not doing a good job, and he doesn't try to improve. No, he tries to humiliate the person who pointed it out.