Mr. Blackwell Move Over

There seems to be a new unspoken adage nowadays: if you don't have something nice to say about someone, say it to their face. I believe it's the insidious and pervasive influence of "talk" radio, which combines fuzzy thinking with nastiness, and reduces the noble idea of well-regulated debate to the civility and intelligence level of a barroom toward the end of Happy Hour on any given Friday. Why else would we have a culture in which an attendee at a John McLain rally asks a question in which she refers to Sen. Hillary Clinton using the "b" word, and then have McLain chuckle and say, "good question?" Does anybody know where they've hidden the moral compass?