Condescension = Not Swallowing your Bulls**t

Last week, the Washington Post, or as Howard Kurtz knows it, the most liberal editorial page around, had an op-ed by Gerard Alexander entitled, "Why are Liberals so Condescending?"

Yes, why oh why?

Alexander then went on to have a chat yesterday, the transcript shows that a third of it is him admitting that liberals aren't any more condescending than anyone else. Another third is a proclamation he is unaware of any prominent conservative referring to liberals as "un-American". And finally the last third involved using ad hominem analogies like 'liberals believe' "AIDS was developed in a U.S. military lab and used deliberately to infect people" to deflect from actual statistics showing huge swaths of conservatives believe in literal creationism; deny global warming; think Obama wasn't born in American; and that ACORN is full of people with Hitler mustaches wearing Mao hats.

Seriously, read it, it is ALL like that.

And how did this guy end up in the Post?

I can only tell you that the Post editor I dealt with searched me out, and were as encouraging as any editor could conceivably be.

A-W-E-S-O-M-E!



[Cross-posted at Firedoglake]