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And timid old Joan and Salon and her backstabbing editors are dead wrong.
You're a pampleteer. They're the kind of people who sat on their hands when Paine went to jail. I'm sure they grabbed their hankies during the Boston Massacre, and got all scared and accomodationist when Washington retreated from New York.
There's got to be a reason why the typical panel on TV has two right-wing nutjobs versus a mainstream journo, and they call that a truthful debate, but I can't figure out what that is.
There is a difference between pampleteering and journalism. Pampleteering will help us win. Salon? Irrelevant. On the road to becoming Slate.