Blog civility watch, or WTF?

I read William Sjostrom's Atlantic Blog regularly and with some pleasure, so I have to tell you, I was a little stunned when I came across this post today:

Staying on the plantation
Mike DeBow at Southern Appeal noticed the Wall Street Journal editorial on the borking of Janice Rogers Brown. I think on one point they are misled:

The lesson liberals learned from Clarence Thomas's success is to start attacking early when fewer people are paying attention. . . So she's getting the by-now-ritual Borking. Typical was her treatment by Illinois Democrat Richard Durbin, who suggested at a Judiciary hearing last week that Ms. Brown should be voted down because she hails from California. He noted the "oddity of President Bush going 3,000 miles away from Washington, D.C., to pick a judge for the D.C. Circuit."

Where do people get the idea that Durbin is a liberal. Durbin is a long-standing stooge of the Chicago Democratic machine, which always believed blacks could be around as long as they were the shoe-shine boys or the maids, unless they were as crooked as the white Democrats. Then they could be precinct captains, and do nothing at the DMV.

When Dick Durbin sees Brown, all he can see is an uppity black woman who doesn't know she is supposed to be either cleaning his oven or helping the local boys steal votes. [Emph. added]

Two things: 1) Bull@#$%! and 2) please, no more tiresome lectures on civility from the right side of the Blogosphere every time a liberal has the temerity to suggest that Mr. Bush may have trouble telling the truth. Compared to this stuff, most of our posts are models of civil discourse.

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