A neocon libel. (Thanks to Frank Golubski)

Mr. Medved, will you repudiate belligerent nationalists, drooling torturers, scheming warmongers, redistributing pressure groups, foreign aid thieves, peeping spies, armageddonists, police statists, welfare-mongers, perpetual war promoters, big government conservatives, central bankers, imperialists, Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, and the other military-industrial rip-off artists? Oh, sorry, you can’t: that’s your Rosemary’s baby, neoconservatism.

UPDATE Robert L. Stephens replies to Michael Medved: “Guilt by association is a collectivist fallacy. It was a despicable and cowardly tactic when the Clintons tried it against ‘right wing hate radio’ following the OKC bombing, and it hasn’t gotten any better with age.

“25 years ago, when I worked on an ‘underground’ conservative student newspaper, the assorted campus Marxists and lefties were forever making sanctimonious demands that we ‘prove we weren’t Nazis’ as a false precondition to avoid debate. Your resort to similar fallacious and libelous non-argument is yet another example of the intellectual decline that is becoming distressingly common among modern neo- (should be ‘pseudo-’) conservatives. It’s really sad to see how far standards have fallen.”