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Frankly Glenn,
We can go to any right wing site and find reams and reams of fascist knee jerk bile, calls for assassination and or torture of left wing figures, elected politicians, media personalities, judges on up to the supreme court. I think when the right tries to pull the "blog" comments card, we should just cite the endless stream of right wing hate by the commentators and media bobbleheads. The right-wing machine current "outrage" tact almost always is based in internal projection of internal faults onto the opposition. They pre-emptively accuse the left of "the crime of the day" so that they can get us to defend rather than bring the overwhelming charges to their front door. The correct response here and ever other situation like this in the last 6 years is overwhelming counter attack rather than defense.
There should be a branch of people at media matters that keep a database of all the unhinged froth that the right pundits and commentators spew to be used as a bottomless barrel of ammunition for all talk show, blog and other media appearances, when the right tries to play the "outrage" card.
Is projection endemic on the right? You betcha.
Nothing shows their lack of real morality on the political level by lionizing Rudy Gulliani, who makes Clinton look like a choir boy. Or Newt Gingrich trying to project his own ruthlessness onto Hillary recently.
I think we need to openly acknowledge the deep movement neurosis of the right in projecting their own internal faults as the attack issue of the day. I have yet to see one of these attacks in the last 8 years not materialize fully formed out of their internal closets. We should all just counter knowing full well that with enough investigation it will become apparent the right wing accusers are guilty of exactly what they are projecting but of dramatically greater degree in scope.
The irony is they have no defense against this. Other than to turn up the volume on the paucity of specifics they have based their charge on. The left blogsphere can go wide and deep on a moments notice, while the right can only go narrow intermittently at the risk of continually and totally undermining themselves.
