While I don't want to dwell on on Amanda Marcotte more than necessary, let me put on my tin foil hat for a second, and pose a theoretical question. Might the goal be to discredit the blogosphere? It's not every......

Apparently, there's some concern over Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon taking over as John Edwards lead blogger. Now, we've picked on Amanda before because of her less-than-biting wit, predictable, yet ridiculous logical jumps, and probably most often for...

Where have I lied? The statements about the DNA evidence are, to the best of my knowledge, true. Dr. Meehan testified as such on the witness stand. Now maybe he is lying, but there is objective procedures and verifiable results here when it comes to DNA testing. The bottomline appears, very much, to be that there was no DNA from the defendants or any lacrosse players who gave DNA samples. If I am lying in regards to Seligmann then so is most of the media and K.C. Johnson, whose politics more closely align with yours.

On top of this there are reports of serious methodological flaws in the police work. The line-up for example. There were no filler pictures and whomever was picked during the last photo line-up was going to be the one's charged. Then in looking at all the testimony by the accuser we know who the real liar is: her.

The sad fact is we are witnessing injustice at work and at the same time women who have a legitimate accusation of rape will no have a somewhat harder time making it, IMO. Many people will have a hard time not seeing the alleged rape of the accuser in this case with later accusers in completely different cases.

So you are, once again, completely wrong.

Here is how they lie: Like Marcotte they repeat accusations they know, or should know, are false.

Unlike Marcotte, however, where the original accusation was backed up by police work, the conservative blogger doesn't even have this cover of legitimacy, however slight. They blithely repeat lies first told by others so as to not have to make up their own lies. This way they can claim the dubious moral distinction of just reporting 'news'. But there is no escape from moral responsibility with this tactic because repeating a lie is just as dishonest as making one up.

So?

Well after the revelation of the undisclosed DNA results, the ATM, taxi and dorm alibis, the umpteen times the stripper has changed her story, Amanda Marcotte still is willing to blast the Duke Lacrosse Three......

But while I'm at it, I'll add that I although politically I align more closely with Amanda than with Steve, I agree with him on this one.

Even though I often disagree with his politics, I have found James to be intellectually honest and consistent. I would be interested in seeing a case where you think he ignored facts to make a political point.

And Ken: Nice to see you've decided to condescend for a visit down from Heaven 6.5. You can go back now.

Although this is not as common among liberal bloggers as it is conservative bloggers I am not really surprised to see it employed by partisans such as yourself, or Ms Marcotte.

Yeah, it's called FoxNews, and Tony Snow.