Interesting email over the weekend coming to Rod’s defense. Much of it is very angry, very ad hominem and argument free. This is my favorite:

Mr. Goldberg;Having heard and read the comments by Mr. Dreher, I’d like to say that just because you say something, doesn’t make it so, either. Your response to Mr. Dreher’s comments is dumber than a box of hair. Or you are. [Name withheld] The premise of the documentary, “The Corporation,” concludes that the corporation, as an entity, if human, would be a sociopath. Then, think about the relationship of human sociopaths aiding and abetting corporate sociopaths, and imagine the result…

There’s also this:

Subject: Your Screed on Rod You are correct in stating that Bush should not be equated with
Carter. Carter wanted to do the right thing the right way, even if it
was via a tragically flawed mechanism that he was properly denounced
for. Carter did not lie to the country and accepted responsibility
for his mistakes. Bush, and the rest of the egomaniacs around him,
lied and bent the intelligence to fit their predetermined petty
desires and have bankrupted the country morally and financially to do
so. there was an imminent threat for Carter, our people had been
taken hostage; there was not any imminent threat to us, or anybody
else at the time Bush recklessly, and without provocation, invaded
Iraq. Bush refuses to admits his egregious mistakes and keeps
exacerbating them. Furthermore, for you to characterize Mr. Dreher’s
comment as “anti-intellectual” is absolutely laughable; you have
neither done, nor exhibited, anything in your short time on the
national stage that would indicate that you are an intellectual or
are even capable of recognizing an intellectual thought if it hit you
in your dense, blinder limited, head. You think far to much of
yourself, and far to little of others; but that is typical of your
side of the political spectrum. Grow up little boy.

Me: You can judge my “screed” yourself here. What I think is interesting is that, so far, almost all (but not all) of Rod’s defenders have come from the left. I think this makes sense, because, as I predicted I think that’s where Rod’s heading.