Incivility is my weapon and humanity is my victim

Hoo-boy, it looks like the LA Times got caught with its pants down (do newspapers wear pants?), printing a quote from a phony news release in a front page story the other day.

I'll go ahead and just wait here while you click on the link and read all about it.

You're back? Heh. That was worth a chuckle, right?

WRONG!!!

You see, for pointing something like that out, I'm worse than Osama bin Laden. Well, maybe not worse, but according to Kathleen Parker, I'm "one of our new enemies."

You see, Ms. Parker laments that people like me lack "decency, humanity and civility," before basically calling me an idiot man-child, "bereft of adult supervision." Civil, no?

This is all offered as a contrast to the mainstream media--and especially newspapers--of whom Ms. Parker seems somewhat enamoured:

Say what you will about the so-called mainstream media, but no industry agonizes more about how to improve its product, police its own members and better serve its communities. Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right.

Ms. Parker is a "popular syndicated columnist," but I'm sure that the fact that she makes her living mainly through the publication of her columns in newspapers has little or nothing to do with her admiration for media figures and the contempt with which she seems to hold bloggers, especially those who go after the "carpal-tunneled wretches" who despite their "near-pathological allegiance to getting it right," seem to often get it wrong:

When a mainstream journalist stumbles, they pile on like so many savages, hoisting his or her head on a bloody stick as Golding's children did the fly-covered head of a butchered sow.

In case you missed it, that's more of Ms. Parker's civility showing. Here's a little more:

We can't silence them, but for civilization's sake - and the integrity of information by which we all live or die - we can and should ignore them.

Won't somebody please think of The Children?™

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play hyperlink "tag team" with Ace, who had this last night, and who I will call "important" if he'll do the same for me.

Related: The always "important" Hugh Hewitt hoists some more severed heads.