Memetic inoculation
Davin nailed you and the rest of the Rightist propaganda machine, Tom. You're equally guilty of exploiting the situation, to lay the groundwork for a defense of your political masters.
Your comments just now blow your cover of pretense to be the rock of objectivity. "I'm right, he's wrong!" Bullshit, it's just nauseating arrogance. An ad homineum attack on those expressing their outrage now is not a rebuttal based on fact. You summed up your strategy nicely in an early post in this flame:
I've been cruising the leftist blogosphere all morning, and have seen every half-assed accusation they've thrown up, and I've answered a number of them.
Your post pretty much distills the Leftist Meme of the Day in a few sentences.
To which I responded that a compilation of opinion in the "leftist blogosphere" is by no means an argument based on fact. All it reveals is that you know that you don't have the facts on your side. This is clearly the best you can do.