Where Are the Righties Now?

The sound of crickets chirping...that's what you hear when I do cartoons mocking Nancy Pelosi and a particularly P.C. NAACP "burial" of the "N-word." But when I do something that pisses them off (i.e., about their sainted soldiers, which is weird considering that no one's stopping them from enlisting, you know?), they follow Michelle Malkin off into ban-them-all send-em-to-Gitmo land. Right-wingers cherrypick their outrage, never tempering their reaction with an acknowledgement that, as an editorial commentator I'm an equal opportunity offender who takes on the left as much as the right.

Then there's the other Big Silence--the Republican reaction to a well-sourced argument that decimates their shibboleths. I expected a big reaction to this week's column. After all, in just 1400 words I left the Heritage Foundation's much-vaunted claim that US soldiers are at least as well educated and wealthy as the average Joe and Jane twisting in the statistical winds. I know the right-wing bloggers read it--I have the software to track that--but they decided not to say boo.

At least I'm honest. When right-wingers are right, I say so. Unfortunately, too many partisans--on all sides of the American political debate--simply put their hands over their ears and pretend that countervailing evidence never existed.