You think Colbert’s not funny?  Watch out!  The crazy e-mailers are at it again.  Richard Cohen finally knows what it’s like to be attacked for straying from the leftist lockstep orthodoxy: 

Two weeks ago I wrote about Al Gore’s new movie on global warming. I liked the film. In response, I instantly got more than 1,000 e-mails, most of them praising Gore, some calling him the usual names and some concluding there was no such thing as global warming, if only because Gore said there was. I put the messages aside for a slow day, when I would answer them. Then I wrote about Stephen Colbert and his unfunny performance at the White House correspondents’ dinner.

Kapow! Within a day, I got more than 2,000 e-mails. A day later, I got 1,000 more. By the fourth day, the number had reached 3,499 — a figure that does not include the usual offers of nubile Russian women or loot from African dictators. The Colbert messages began with Patrick Manley (”You wouldn’t know funny if it slapped you in the face”) and ended with Ron (”Colbert ROCKS, you MURDER”) who was so proud of his thought that he copied countless others. Ron, you’re a genius.

I’ve experienced similiar knee-jerk reactions in some classes while obtaining my Journalism Master’s.  For example, one student who never could complete a sentence without staring into space (LSD much?) decided to do her story on ghosts in an alleged haunted house.  No one criticized her, since she was just wanting to write about ghosts.  The only person that did was a more-tolerant liberal who pointed out that people pretend to see “glowing orbs” in photographs. 

Another student decided to write her story about a stripper who had had two abortions and was about to have another but decided against it, became a Christian, got a steady man in her life, and now volunteers at a crisis pregnancy center.  The ghost-story student loudly said, “This isn’t going to be a Jesus saves story is it!”  When I said I might write my story about the faith-based prison initiative in Florida, the same student yelled, “Uh!  That is such crap!”  This same woman believes in shamans and Taoism.

If you are pro-life, or even have problems with late-term abortions, against killing of the disabled newborns (or any newborns for that matter), against gay marriage, for traditional values, against porn (or even just extreme porn), for a strong national defense, against illegal immigration, then watch out:  leftists can’t argue against you using reason, so they will rely on fallacies and name-calling.

HotAir links and so does Michelle Malkin with “Welcome to Our World“