Once again, I had the pleasure of joining Matt Lewis on Bloggingheads to talk about a few of the big issues this week — the netroots boycott of the DNC over promises President Barack Obama made to the LGBTQ community, the Stupak-Pitts amendment, and the attack at Fort Hood. The above excerpt is our discussion of the role of political correctness in the Fort Hood matter, but you can watch the whole thing here. This segment in particular, wherein Matt harkens back to a rosy past and I wonder whether that past in fact ever existed, is a lovely distillation of the conservative-liberal argument of the past decades.

— Tim Fernholz

Tim Fernholz is a former staff writer for the Prospect. His work has been published by Newsweek, The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Daily Beast. He is also a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation.