“I think of you more as a — what’s the word? — ‘dickhead.’”

I’m surprised the spindly old hippie has it in him, but “Doctor” Miller has once again roused himself to move the goal posts in this, the third quarter of the Iranian Bestiality Bowl and Farsi Festival.

Beaten on those darn facts, Miller is scrambling for higher ground now, scolding Steyn:

What onus do you feel, as a person who has considerable influence, to promote understanding, not just tear us further apart?

In some circles, that’s what’s known as “topping from below.” (If you don’t recognize the expression, you aren’t the type of person who should google it.) Frankly, I think Miller was just looking for an excuse to type the word “onus”…

Steyn responds in the expected fashion, in a post that, in the interest of public health, really should carry a “latex allergy” warning.

(And why do I get the feeling that one of Miller’s J-school colleagues in particular is really jealous right now…?)

Don’t you love it? Sometime during the 1980s I think, the purpose of journalism went from “raising hell” to “making peace.”

Were you to ask Miller if Woodward and Bernstein shouldn’t have “tried to promote understanding” of Nixon & Co., you’d be greeted with a rightly baffled look. But then again, Richard Nixon was an Evil Criminal Mastermind — those millions of Muslims who wish us all dead? Harmless and misunderstood!

Dear Mr. Paine: don’t you feel an onus to promote understanding of the King’s position, not just calling him an “ass”? Where will that get us? It’ll just turn people off…

Dear Mr. Mencken: didn’t your mother ever tell you that if you can’t say anything nice…?  

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