By now, you have probably heard of or have seen the video of Evan Sayet at the Heritage Foundation. It is an incredible speech, and in it Mr. Sayet gives a well crafted observation of why so many modern liberals think the way they do. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend giving it a view. it is about 45 minutes long, but well worth the time. You can view it here.

I have watched the video a few times and mostly agree with his position. And so do many others, as is evident by doing a Google search on the video, and by the comments it has registered.

So, I got to thinking, what do liberals think of this speech? I figured that there must be some liberal backlash by the "thinking, progressive, liberal bloggers." I would think that some liberal blogger somewhere must have issued a rebuttal that would be worth reading. So, I did a search on The Daily Kos looking for such a rebuttal, as Daily Kos is the foremost blog for liberals, and if there was such a rebuttal, I would assume that I could find it there.

What did my search reveal? One post (or diary, as they like to call it). Just one. And was it a well crafted rebuttal? Hardly. The diarist admits to only watching the first eight and a half minutes, then refutes none of the points in the speech. Just as Mr. Sayet is starting to backup his thesis statement, the diarist tunes out and turns him off. He doesn't even take the time to allow Mr. Sayet to explain the positions he has stated. Instead, the diarist draws a false conclusion, then uses the liberal technique of denigrating Evan Sayet by calling him a jackass. And then the diarist tries to build himself up by talking about how his TV choices are intelligent and how he likes a "clear statement and a clean argument."

It is my opinion that the Evan Sayet video is a clear statement and a clean argument, and if this person had taken the time to listen to it long enough for Mr. Sayet to present his points in their entirety and draw his conclusion, the blogger might have posted a better diary. Instead, this one lone post on the Daily Kos that even acknowledges Mr. Sayet's speech shows its writer as someone who doesn't live up to that which he espouses.

In the end, the diarist winds up proving Mr. Sayet right on a number of the points. And that one diary is all "the preeminent liberal blog" the Daily Kos, in its thousands of postings and diaries, had to say about it.