This will be the same Cal Thomas who appears, or at least appeared, regularly on the Fox News show, Fox News Watch. He seems to be part of a very disturbing phenomenon in American politics (and in blog-land in general) where opposing points of view are not discussed or debated, but misrepresented and demonised. What is even more distasteful is that the phenomonon gives all the impression of being centrally, however loosely, organised. A very dirty form of politics that, to my mind, threatens the integrity of the democratic system.