Trolls: Read This, Suckers

You know you're getting somewhere when trolls appear on your message boards. The liberal blogger handbook expressly warns--wait, I've got to look it up; oh yeah, here it is, page 10--"Do not feed the trolls." But every once in a while, a troll will get my blood pumping. And I respond.

This time, it was last week's post about the woman who was killed by the state in Texas because she was terminally ill and couldn't pay for her care. A reasonable response would be: "How could George Bush have signed this bill into law when he was Governor--he's all about the culture of life?" A troll would say--and did: "Well, look, his source was DailyKos.com."

First, let me defend Kos. Unlike the wingnuts on the right, activists on the left like to support their arguments with facts. But trolls are so sure that everything on our side is made up--maybe because so much on their side really is made up--that they can't even see the link on Kos to a news source: Channel WFAA, Channel 5 News, in Ft. Worth/Dallas. Not very likely that's a leftist station.

Some other sources:
--CBS TV in Dallas/Ft. Worth.
--Slate.com, once owned by Microsoft, now owned by the Washington Post.

Kos didn't make it up. The woman had no money. The doctors decided she had no future. No home would take her. So they killed her. Spin that, trolls.