But the right wingers* aren’t about to do the “right thing“, instead what the “conservative intellectuals” on the right are doing is creating specious (seductively false) arguments to rile up the right wing’s faith brigade.

While it might be dismissed as profound ignorance, the right wing argumentation technique’s regular reliance on false assertions is a pattern amongst the most educated on the right.

When an educated right winger falsely asserts about China, a country that forces abortion after the first child, that China has “a virtually unfettered right to choose abortion[,]” that person is no longer engaging in an honest argument.

While courtesy might demand acceptance that the person making the false assertion actually believes the lie, that courtesy is often what the right winger is relying on to further their falsehoods.

Probably the nicest thing that could be said about “Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion” blogger “William A. Jacobson” is that he’s good natured enough to put up a “What “They” Are Saying About “Me”" section that currently includes these comments:

“‘Obtuse’ is just about the nicest thing I could say about Jacobson. The problem with being too steeped in any profession is that you run the risk of no longer understanding the difference between reality and your profession’s most obscure minutiae.”

“Jacobson is doing only what other McCain supporters are starting to do, produce these worthless pieces from some narrow perch in order to cover up their own racist bigotry”

“I take it Jacobson teaches at the cow college part of Cornell, and not the elite section where Coulter attended.”

* There are right wingers that have adopted, but so few that it makes the simplistic slogan of “adoption is an option” almost meaningless.