Ignore! Ignore!

I have to say that I'm a bit shocked by the regularity with which a criticism I offer of someone -- Martin Peretz, Jonah Goldberg, Ken Baer -- will be met with the response that person x is terrible and a liar and I should just ignore them. The notion that incorrect ideas will just vanish if bloggers with midsize audiences ignore them is pretty odd.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/06/ignore-ignore/42644/