My dear friend Matthew “Go Ahead Punch Me In The Face” Stoller is at it again.

It is very likely that McCain has cancer or some other serious illness.  There’s no reason McCain wouldn’t let reporters look at his records otherwise.  McCain is 72 years old and he was a POW, a member of a group with high rates of illness due to ill-treatment on the part of their captors.

Stoller makes the claim that McCain is hiding something despite the fact that earlier in the same post he points out that reporters were invited to look at his records - albeit with conditions.  It’s simply not true that McCain won’t let the media look at them (as Matt states before contradicting himself).  What McCain refused to do is let our ridiculous stable of yellow journalists give him a drive by colonoscopy, so to speak.  He chose not to let them pour over every minute detail looking for something they could exploit to make news.

Stoller, compared to real journalists, doesn’t actually need facts.  He just makes stuff up, or quotes what sounds like they might actually be facts without ever backing them up.  For instance:

[McCain] was a POW, a member of a group with high rates of illness due to ill-treatment on the part of their captors.

Is that true?  Sounds like it could be, but who knows.  Did he actually do any research to verify that claim?  He certainly didn’t cite a source.  Did he make it up?  It would be his style.

Further, Matt jumps clearly afield with this little bit of stupidity

Cancer is relevant to the Presidency.  Misleading the press about one’s health is relevant to the Presidency.  This is not just a dude looking for a job, he’s going to have his hand on the nuclear trigger.  Imminent death from a terminal disease kind of skews your perspective on this, you know what I’m saying?

Actually, Matt, I have no idea what your saying.  Most people that I have been close to who died after a long fight with terminal illness (three grandparents among them), had developed an incredible respect for life.  They had come to intimately understand the fragile nature of it and felt it was precious - not something to throw away.

Stoller, on the other hand, seems to imply that someone close to death from a terminal disease would be more than happy to take those around him down with them.  That’s simply not a logical argument to make if you account for the number of deathbed confessions, last minute searches for God, and people trying to reconcile themselves with the great beyond.

Yesterday I was challenged by a pair of lefty Twitter users for not denouncing Jerome Corsi, an extremist fruit cake unfortunately aligned with the GOP.  Now, anybody who has asked me about Corsi’s book has heard me decry his brand of venom.  I had not, however, posted on the topic, so somehow I was abetting Corsi.

If that’s the measure we are to use, where are the Democrats who will step up and denounce Stoller for his repeated and over-the-top, Anne Coulter-esque diatribes?  Why is the left, which was quick to challenge me, so unwilling to call out Matt Stoller and his absurd rants?