When I heard that Ben Domenech was helping to create a conservative blog called Red America at - of all places - the Washington Post, I mentioned to my friends that I hoped the WaPo was ready for the vitriolic hate mail (and possible DDOS attacks) that seems to follow statements by any conservative blogger (Ben most likely had familiarity with this from his time at RedState).
Unlike the group of Ben's critics who have already amassed, I didn't obsess over his background, so I didn't realize that he was homeschooled. And boy, does that ever seem to piss people off. Michelle Malkin has compiled quite a list from the comments at liberal blogs. After reading this sort of tripe, I definitely sympathize with those homeschooling parents who report negative experiences with public bias.
If Ben replies to any of these critics who claim that he's stupid and narrow-minded and warped mainly due to his homeschooling experience, it should be along the lines of, "Well, maybe being stuck in the house with your parents for 18 years would have been a traumatic, dumbing-down experience, but my parents were pretty damn wonderful."
(RedState also has an amusing summary of all the hating and shrieking going on.)
Update: What do you know. I sure hope that wasn't how his parents taught him to do research.
Posted by kswygert at March 22, 2006 01:13 PM