Some New Year Philly.com Wingnuttery

As dmac notes here, if it’s Friday, that means it’s time for more Christine Flowers propaganda (but, as always, IOKIYAR), and Rick Santorum told us yesterday that passage of the Employee Free Choice Act would mean that union members could visit the home of a non-union worker up to four times to try to lean on them so they would join a union, a la Don Corleone, as Little Ricky put it (I’d reference the exact quote, but the column has been taken down for some mysterious reason; maybe Snarlin’ Arlen objected to the free publicity Former Senator Man-On-Dog gave to prospective Dem challenger Chris Matthews? – still having a hard time with that, by the way.)

Time and the desire to maintain my sanity with the new year already underway do not allow me to give Flowers and the former PA senator from northern Virginia the proper response (I also have no information to counter Santorum’s claim at the moment, though I’ll keep looking), but I would like to call out something particularly offensive and ridiculous that I found elsewhere on the site today.

In their “Lightning Round” set of editorials here (including a tribute to the brave Penn trauma surgeon John S. Pryor killed in Iraq; any loss of life from Dubya’s horrific war of choice in Mesopotamia is terrible, but this is particularly so), I found the following comment in response to an editorial about the increasing risks from violent crime facing young African American men in this country since 2000…

Help control the Deer population by killing them so that they will not starve to death or be run over by cars. This is the Black answer to the long time problem of prison over-population. Put them out of their misery. It will both cut back on unwanted pregnancies and the added expense of incarcerating them. Sort of like a "crime prevention remedy".

I should note that there has been some discussion of how to manage the deer population in Bucks County, Lower Makefield in particular, but that was not mentioned in any of the four “Lightning Round” editorials.

No, this was a commenter plainly and simply comparing a demographic segment of our population to animals that, in the estimation of “Barryboy,” should be herded up and slaughtered.

And this is considered an acceptable comment for the philly.com site.

Just keep telling yourselves, though, that filthy, unkempt liberal blogger types such as your humble narrator are the problem, as opposed to the “news professionals” who have no problem allowing comments stating that “the Black answer” is to round up “Deer” to be indiscriminately shot.