Between Rachel Maddow’s grating appearance on Meet the Press and a torrent of pissy e-mails over the weekend, I thought it might be worth throwing two points out there. First, there’s the familiar observation that if you’ve insisted for eight years that questioning anyone’s patriotism is the worst thing in the world, you probably should be a little more reluctant to go around questioning peoples’ patriotism at the drop of a hat. Second, if you happen to be someone who was giddy about the president of the United States having a shoe thrown at his head, maybe you should also be a little hesitant to play the “the president’s critics are anti-American” card this time around. Just some food for thought.