“Pam” at Freedonian has posted a clip of a Democratic Presidential candidate’s wife asking a political pundit to stop criticizing her husband, specifically by using “course language” and “personal attacks.” In both circumstances mentioned in the clip, the pundit was actually criticizing political correctness (in the first instance) and the double-standard applied to Republican pundits (more recently), rather than the candidate himself. But the truly ironic grace note is how Pam uses the post’s headline to carelessly label the pundit as a “tramp.” So not only does Pam fail to grasp the pundit’s actual message, but she also fails to heed the candidate’s wife’s disingenuous plea for civility.

This post is unremarkable aside from being symptomatic of the rote partisanship, crass attitude and lack of curiosity that prevails in this circle; my wish is that my comrades will some day learn how to either write in a less predicable way and actually experiment with crossover posts or, at the very least, figure out how to make partisanship and base humor more interesting. Until then, they earn a B for boring. C’mon people, give us a reason to keep reading.