The Crowbar

With many more instances to come, I’m sure, Andrew Sullivan the Great Defender of Detained Psychopaths and Embracer of Selective Empathy openly disrespects Glenn Beck by approving of this nonsense:

While defending the National Endowment of the Arts against the latest GOP broadside, Scott Eric Kaufman coins a new word:

*beck v. trans. beck-ing, beck-ed, to be baselessly attacked by an idiot with a megaphone, then have those accusations alter your life for the worse because it’s politically expedient for your spineless superiors to demote or fire you

It’s “baseless” to attack the “non-partisan” NEA for using taxpayer money to promote a Obama’s political agenda? It’s “politically expedient” to fire someone for being uncivil AND believing that the US government is responsible for attacking the World Trade Center?

An ad hominem attack is usually the first line of defense for those who are losing the argument – badly.

It’s good to see Sullivan putting his Harvard education to good use.