Do a little analysis, Ami. Who's being maligned in the faulty Holocaust poll, the U.S. military? No, the American public. And what's the slur on their good name? That they're torturers and murderers? That they wink at the torturers and murderers in their midst and protect them by silence? No, the worst thing that was said of them by the faulty poll was that they were too fucking dumb to know that the Holocaust happened.
So in your SECOND dumb, irrelevant and pointless example, you compared a poll that suggested that maybe the American people were too dumb to know about the Holocaust with a poll that suggests the U.S. MILITARY tolerates torture and murder. And then used the "silence" of the right-wing blogosphere as some kind of proof that they'd be equally silent in the face of the much worse slander against a much more sacred cow. Oy.
Also, I'm not all that sure about the silence of the right-wing blogosphere on this one, given that your own post indicates that the poll question was changed in response to criticism. So where exactly did this "criticism" come from? OK, that's just a side issue here.
I guess I should follow this up with a lengthy and detailed explanation of why an accusation of being ignorant of certain historical facts is not quite the same thing as an accusation of complicity in torture and murder, but honestly, Ami, I just don't feel like wasting the time. In the end, the only response I would get for my trouble would be the tiresome mantra of the shot-down BS artist with nothing intelligent left to say, maybe not in the same precise order but definitely relying upon the standard "answers" of "AMBE," "bogus," "typical" hopefully in some random but eye-pleasing order, followed by another exuberant, icon-studded post from sirs, "WHOA, another head-butt to the solar plexus! How long can Tee hold out now, folks?"
So far, Ami, you're batting 0 and 2 and your side-kick is running out of boxing metaphors, and although I could do this all night, I've only got time for one more.