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DAN RIEHL: ?TPM uses a low form of journalism by reporting that an obviously disturbed individual a?

By Glenn Reynolds

DAN RIEHL: “TPM uses a low form of journalism by reporting that an obviously disturbed individual also ran across the Tea Party movement. Draw your own conclusions (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). . . . I don’t know, maybe his being married to a Cambridge, MA shrink was to blame. That’s probably enough to drive anyone nuts. Seriously, if you want to use that type of foolish linkage in an attempt to drive people to conclusions, then who the individual spent more of his time with should be even more responsible for his behavior.” If it’s done to a lefty, it’s a “smear,” and “guilt by association.” Done to somebody on the right, it’s called . . . journalism.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 12, 2010 (boomark / email).