"I do challenge people to back up spurious allegations"
You did no such such thing.....You did the same thing SOME others do, You took the actions of a couple of individuals and try to paint an entire group with the actions of only those individuals.
The thread was that I "whined" about people posting spurious allegations. I replied that I challenged them to back up the allegations. You challenged me on my statement. I backed it up. So I am not mad or angry that you decided to challenge me since that is what I do to others. It is not hypocrisy as anyone can back up their allegations. That does not mean I will like the proof, but I will not debate facts. Allegations, I will challenge, facts I will not.
I am careful to back up my posts (unless pure opinion in which case I will make that clear) with facts. That is not the case with most of the allegations I challenge, and indeed, upon being challenged, I usually hear no more about it since they cannot back up their allegations. hence they are opinions, not facts.
Now, as far as my language, we may disagree on the wording. Rampant is not universal. I said rampant and I do believe it and have provided NUMEROUS examples of it (check my blog history). You may quibble with how rampant, but I did not say it was all. The difference I was attempting to point out here, is that the right does ostracize their loons - the left embraces them. Again, these are general statements that exceptions can be found for. But if you are going to allege that the right is embracing bad behavior from the Tea Party, I challenge you to find the bad behavior, and then the embracing of it. Which is what I did here with the left.
So I refute your allegation, and stand by the evidence presented.