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Alterman is one of my favorite members of the tin foil hat brigade.

Always drumming the beat to let everyone know about the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Straw man and slippery slope arguments galore folks.

In any case, it is hardly insignificant that President Reagan did not manage to utter the word “AIDS” in public until 1987. In doing so, he offered us all a lesson about how silence can sometimes speak more loudly than words. (By 1987, more than 21,000 suffered from the disease and nearly than 12,000 had already died.)

What an idiot. I could easily rummage around medical statistics to come up with hundreds of relatively little known diseases that have death tolls of 12,000+ over the last decade in a nation of 285 million, and yet I'm quite certain that Alterman has never spoken of these diseases. Therefore it's quite safe to assume that since Alterman has neither spoken nor written of them he secretly believes those people deserved to die, probably because they were conservative (by Alterman's lights, 90% of the nation is conservative). Seems reasonable, right? Right?

For a guy with a PhD he seems terminally addicted to logical fallacies.

Alterman thinks AIDS is the only disease on the planet because, well, it's associated with homosexuality and therefore deserves a special place in the constellation of ailments. Therefore Reagan should have been discussing it at least twice daily during the 1980s. To Alterman the mere fact that he didn't give a specially recognized position in the firmanent means he was a bigot. Right? Right?

Alterman is a weenie cum laude. He has absolutely no idea that his politics are vintage 1980s and early 1990s. Yawn.

In any case, it is hardly insignificant that President Reagan did not manage to utter the word “AIDS” in public until 1987. In doing so, he offered us all a lesson about how silence can sometimes speak more loudly than words. (By 1987, more than 21,000 suffered from the disease and nearly than 12,000 had already died.)

I find Eric Alterman's editorial silence during the murder of 6 million Jews by Adolf Hitler to be very, very troubling.

Silence can sometimes speak more loudly than words.