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The problem with the right-wing echo chamber, led by Hannity, Limbaugh, Malkin et al, and glowingly amplified and legitimized by Howie and his ilk, is that they are as young children, thoroughly, completely and blissfully unaware of anything connected to themselves personally.
It's therefore easy to take umbrage with "liberal" bloggers for their vehement, vulgar attacks, while at the same time being entirely unaware that they themselves (the right-wing echo chamber) created, refined and set all records for vulgarity and violent suggestions. IOKIYARWC (it's okay if you're a right-wing commentator), don't you know?
The real problem is not these people, per se, but the entire media culture which gives their views prominence and significance, while classifying the entire right/left debate as good/evil. In past history, these kind of polarized, elitist and depraved cultures suffered some sort of self-immolation, and it was only the complete and total dissolution of those societies which created a new starting place. My worry is that those are our only choices left: accepting the right-wing framing, or facing some sort of revolutionary catastrophe.
