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How's the weather on your high horse? You're smart enough to know those sources are right wing loons and that people dismiss the ravings of left wing loons as well.
Instead of aspersion, so easy to cast, requiring no knowledge, how about contesting the post?
Care to take the challenge?
If I were to post the ravings of a left wing loon I highly doubt you wouldn't just dismiss and ridicule it out of hand.
One should never justify a wrong by pointing to another (imagined) wrong.
"Tu Quoque" is a very common fallacy in which one attempts to defend oneself or another from criticism by turning the critique back against the accuser. This is a classic Red Herring since whether the accuser is guilty of the same, or a similar, wrong is irrelevant to the truth of the original charge. However, as a diversionary tactic, Tu Quoque can be very effective.