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SETTING THE BAR LOW, SETTING THE BAR HIGH: It isn?t the snarky first part of this statement that ?

By Glenn Reynolds

SETTING THE BAR LOW, SETTING THE BAR HIGH:

It isn’t the snarky first part of this statement that is interesting; that’s banal, and while revealing in its own way, it’s de rigeur for he sort of people we’re talking about to on the one hand demand no one reach conclusions on the basis of necessarily limited information when it comes to them and their mascots, but who feel free themselves to rush to entirely unsupported conclusions regarding their opponents and targets, and express them in the snarkiest way possible, all the while holding the self-conception that they’re stalwarts defending civil discourse. . . . The same people who are sanguine about the Cordoba Initiative and caution against intemperance, rushing to conclusions without a forensic-level of CSI-type evidence, and cautioning against painting with a broad brush and guilt-by-association routinely and casually do all these things in their characterizations and portrayals of Tea Party members.

Indeed.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).