PDS and CPD[tm]

Joe Klein finally notices the barking wingnuttery of Political Derangement Syndrome among the True Believers of the Patellar-Reflexive Left.

Beware the Bloggers' Bile

...the smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere. Anyone who doesn't move in lockstep with the most extreme voices is savaged and ridiculed—especially people like me who often agree with the liberal position but sometimes disagree and are therefore considered traitorously unreliable.

But, sez Klein, it's not their fault, following through immediately with some Comparitive Political Demonology^TM and PDS of his own, blaming it all on Rush Limbaugh and the Evil Republicans.

...the left-liberals in the blogosphere are merely aping the odious, disdainful—and politically successful—tone that right-wing radio talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh pioneered. They are also justifiably furious at a Bush White House that has specialized in big lies and smear tactics...poison from the right-wing talk shows seeped into the Republican Party's bloodstream and sent that party off the deep end. Limbaugh's show—where Dick Cheney frequently expatiates—has become the voice of the Republican establishment.

Delicious circularity.