The knee-jerk response is utterly predictable. But oh brother, wait until you see the “logic” used by Riehl World View to defend Andrew Breitbart, who unleashed a crazy, name-calling screed yesterday, just hours after Kennedy passed, calling the American icon a “prick” and a “bastard.”

According to Riehl World View, liberals criticizing Breitbart are “hypocrites” because when Dick Cheney dies they're going to do the exact same thing. That's right, liberals today are hypocrites because of what they might do in the future; because of how they might act based on a right-wing fantasy, where liberal columnists suddenly lose all their moral guideposts and viciously attack a dead politician (attack the person, not even his politics), just hours after he loses a long battle with cancer.