Why do we have to care what the right wing thinks?
I'm all for high standards for our own work, but I don't understand the leftist obsession with kneeling to the agenda of the right wing. We really grant them too much power and pay too much attention to them.
For example, I was reading the snarky comments on Fark.com about the Churchill news. The people who visit that site are generally "normal" people.
Their reaction to this story? Most of them had never heard of Ward Churchill and questioned why this was considered newsworthy for their website. There may be many right-wingers out there, but most Americans are not right-wingers, nor do they keep track of their pre-occupations. I suspect that many people simply despise the right wing currently.
Take David Horowitz for example. This guy exists on the margins of the right wing. He's not even an important guy in right wing neocon circles. He's been ranting about left wing academics for years, but has anybody paid attention to him, other than leftists?
Chuck