There’s an important post on RedState documenting how leading Democrats aided and abetted the extortion and purported outing of Senator Larry Craig. I urge you to check it out.

I also want to elaborate on why someone like Mike Rogers and the bloggers that eagerly peddle his rubbish so disgust me. A lot of bloggers are new to reporting, and unlike reporters of yore they don’t get to know the people that they report on. You also incongruously hear that this relentlessly shrill blogger or that endlessly strident blogger are really nice guys when you meet them.

I’m convinced that these people, having created their own virtual reality, have no appreciation of the damage that they do. I don’t mean to pick on Markos, but I truly wonder when he wrote “screw them” in regards to four American veterans who had been savagely murdered in Fallujah whether he for a moment considered how hurtful his words would be to the grieving loved ones that these men left behind.

The super-macho bloggers are Rambo while hiding behind the modems, but I wonder if any of these people would have the guts to look their target in the eye and express their passion for ruining their target’s life. I’d wager not. Theirs is a sickening and pathetic kind of cowardice.

If I sound outraged, it’s because I am. The inmates at the Daily Kos and Democracy Underground are currently gloating over the pain that their fellow travelers have caused Larry Craig and his family. If you’re looking for decency in such quarters, you’ll come away empty.

But what of the Democratic Party? Do its officials support these tactics? If so, it would be good to know. And if not, their extraordinary financial generosity for Ed Schultz, the radio host at the heart of the scheme, demands an explanation.

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