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Well said (via tbogg)

Was what Kos said stupid? Of course. Was it pretty damn tame compared to the bile on right-wing sites in many cases? Indeed: Columnist/Democrat-murder-inciter Kathleen Parker has posted multiple times on the Bush blog itself. But of course, it's okay if you're a Republican.

Does anybody else find it odd that while it's the right-friendly bloggers (Kaus, Glenn, others) who whine the most about the need for blogs to be unencumbered by staffs, journalistic editing processes and such, it's also the righty bloggers who are quickest to try to place other bloggers of non like-minded ideologies under the hardest mainstream scrutiny? They're all for the freedom to say something controversial, except when they disagree.

It was alright for Instapundit to call anti-war protesters "objectively pro-Saddam", yet Don Luskin went ahead and threatened to sue Atrios for saying something he didn't like. It's alright to see rabidly anti-Arab bile all over Little Green Footballs (and to be approving of people like Ann Coulter who claim that Islam teaches people to "'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed")...

...yet when Markos Zuniga says something that 1) was emotionally charged, given his Army history, and 2) has, in circles outside of the Right Wing Mock Outrage Brigade, inspired some actual constructive discussions as to what the men of Blackwater were doing in Iraq, it's so over the line that it inspires both unprecedented indignation from the warbloggers and campaigns to get advertisers to pull their Kos ads?

Gimme a break!

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