“Real America” is banging at the gates. Over the past 24, Limbaugh, Breitbart, and company have hurled a Fatwa of sorts in our direction. They’ve been denouncing a panel we had at Bluestockings last Friday, especially the participation of Natasha Lennard. Lennard occasionally freelances for the New York Times. Freelanced that is. The Times caved without resistance and dropped her almost immediately.

There’s a rant to be made here about the narrowing of debate to the point where even discussing a left-wing movement on a panel hosted by a (surprise) left-wing publication is enough to warrant ostracization from the middlebrow, but I’ll save that for another day.

An amusing tidbit: an hour before they ran their front-page story objectively echoing, I mean reporting, Limbaugh and posse’s red-baiting, Politico scrubbed Lennard’s bio page.