Letters to the Editor
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Well Said but...
Thank you Glenn, well said.
But...
Progressives have only themselves to blame!
For at least a decade or so, there seems to have been a sort of unspoken agreement amongst all but the far-left to ignore or even accomodate these kind of attacks!
In particular people like John Kerry should have mercilessly tracked down and taken legal action for defamation against every single one of the "Swift Boaters." It should have been Kerry's declared mission in life to do this, even if in reality his lawyers were doing the work.
To his great credit, Micheal Moore seems the only progressive to have acurately anciptaed and planned for the right wing noise machine, and effectively cowed and silenced some of it.
But the failure by most progresssives to fight against the extreme right attack dogs has only empowered and encouraged them to become less civil and more outspoken to the point of fantasy.
Letters to papers need to be written, comments need to be posted on blogs, editors need to be e-mailed. The ONLY way to respond to this kind of attack is to challenge and counter attack.
The past 10 years of 'ignoring' and 'diminishing' and 'that question doesn't deserve an answer' tactics have failed miserably.
Counter attack is the only way.