She previously commented in a thread about it, I'm disinclined to assume she didn't mean it that way and she didn't deny it either. Whichever, even where your interpretation the case, and I did consider it, I don't recall a rash here of any of us, left or right, calling their political opposites unpatriotic. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened but I don't see it as something one of the Usual Suspects would say, let alone regularly enough to justify the remark. Regardless it would have amounted to the same thing, Amy's openly 'as liberal as they come', if she wanted to make a remark about people being over political with an example, she should have picked one from her own neck of the woods. You may recall, possibly correctly, people using un-patriotic or the like, but in my experience people tend to remember ten or twenty incidents for every one that actually happened here. As an example, 'patriotic', including 'un' prefixes, appears a whopping 82 times on the CMB, and at least half of them are in posts authored by you. Most of the others I opened by people I thought might be examples turned up to have the word as a quote from you, and of the specific phrase 'unpatriotic', used 14 times on the CMB, you've used it the most, I use it twice, once in regard to saying politicians regular accuse each other of it in pretty words and the other "What in the world is wrong about complaining about taxes? Dear God it's practically unpatriotic not to." It then registers twice as a quote in a reply to me from Aisha and a reply to her from RT. RT uses it once in an ironic light in that old Sex Toy thread, Urza's got a hit as a quote in a reply to that. Elaine's got one "reluctantly and unpatriotically admit that St Patrick's Day doesn't really do it for me", and the other two are old, connected, and utterly unconnected to politics between cmdjing and Celia about Mongolians.

So, there's not really a rash of it. People read stuff elsewhere and project it a lot. For the record the word 'teabagger' also saw very limited usage and a good portion of that in the same fashion.



I'm not even sure if I'm in the Top 10 on the CMB, though I doubtless make the Top 3 on word count. What bothers me, and you obviously, is that neither of us particularly think political threads should be as common as a ratio, but as RT points out, that's because there aren't a lot of others. I don't feel anyone has a legit gripe when we average less than one a day.



Agreed. Hell the majority of your threads aren't political and I don't think even 1 in 10 of mine have been, so its not exactly like us political posters are really throwing the ratio that much.