Legal Commentary

"Fifth Column" Sully

By Big Tent Democrat

Irony alert - Fifth Column Sully has two guest posters at his site decrying mean discourse. Patrick Appel:

Calling political opponents terrorists is so disgusting and so obviously beyond the pale it hardly requires rebutting.

Oh really? How about calling your political opponents "fifth columnists" for the terrorists? Does that make the Sully Guests' Miss Manners guide? Conor Friedersdorf:

I really don't think my standards are particularly exacting. Don't compare ideological adversaries to murderous totalitarians. Refrain from rudely interrupting emotionally troubled black women if your planned interjection is the n-word. Don't tell callers to your show that they're so annoying their spouse should put a gun to their head. (Note to skeptical Web historians: yes, those are all actual examples!)

Here's another actual example that the Sully Guests forgot -- "decadent left enclaves on the coasts [that] may well mount a fifth column [for the terrorists]." Maybe they can add that one to their Miss Manners book. Sanctimonious hypocrites.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).