He's reliably wrong.
He can be counted upon to be on the wrong side of nearly every issue, and the more wrong he is the more violently cruel he becomes.
Today, Shaun Kenney came out and cried "mercy", because he and the rest of the right wing nutsphere turned Virgil Goode's racism into a Jihaad against Waldo and we, correctly, called them on it.
While Ben and Terry want to give Shaun a pass and want to elevate him to the level of smart, right-thinking, decent, all-American blog guy, I say NO WAY.
Shaun Kenney was either a leader or a follower on every single one of the following smear campaigns:
* Sexism attacks against Jim Webb
* Racism attacks against Jim Webb
* Anti-Semitism attacks against Webb and our own Lowell Feld
* The spurious claim that RK was in violation of FEC Campaign Laws
* The cowardly assertion that Jim Webb and the US Marines were perverts because of Jim Webb's reality-based fiction.
Meanwhile, Shaun Kenney was also a leader or a follower on every one of these weak-kneed, idiotic, attepmts to fig-leaf the leaders of the Republican Party that has abandoned any claim to responsible government in favor of outright bigotry:
* Trying to protect George Allen against "macaca"
* Attacking anyone who questioned Allen about his failed campaign to protect against "macaca".
* Attacking all of the accusers who bravely stood out to decry Allen's regular use of the word N****.
* Defending Virgil Goode's ignorant attack on Muslims.
The lists go on and on and can be greatly expanded. The bottom line is that Shaun Kenney doesn't suddenly become a good guy, because he cries "uncle" when his back is up against the wall. Shaun Kenney is a leader in the downfall of the VA Political Blogsphere and this little bit doesn't change that fact, or the fact that Virgil Goode is the problem and possibly the most willfully ignorant reactionary in Congress.
In the end, one decent move doesn't a decent opponent make. Shaun Kenney's track record of incivility is not wiped clean by one painfully obvious act of decencey.