It's That Time Again

What Digby said.

and again,

What Digby said.

I think it is our duty as citizens of this country to make people aware of the level of discourse. If the Presstitutes want to party like it's 1998, then we need to take a (metaphorically speaking, I'm not Pam Oshry) baseball bat to their heads. If they want to play it like they're too cool for the Democrats, we need to loudly remind them of every time they went weak in the knees for Commander Codpiece and abetted his and the Republican party's destruction of this country. Such people have no right to spend hours agonizing over Bill Clinton's continued 'taint' on the party or Nancy Pelosi's already doomed leadership. They are part and parcel of the problem.

The correct answer is how Mary Mapes responded to Rush Limbaugh (I think there was someone else who said something similar, but I can't remember who):

"I don't need to be lectured on ethics from a much married, obese, drug addict."

If the media wants to engage in character assassination - YEEEEARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!! - then I have no problem throwing right back in their faces how feckless - can't get away from Atlas Juggs today, go read this FDL post - and destructive they are to the national discourse and therefore the entire nation. It's springtime in punditland, and if they want to poke their heads out of the woodwork to try and be cool, it's time we played some whack-a-mole.