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Heck, I'll take a shot at this one.

First off: media whore is a pejorative term. Yes? Yes.

Second: Erick Erickson didn't call Cindy Sheehan a whore. He did call her a media whore. We can hopefully pretty much stop pretending he didn't mean to be insulting, right?

Third: if there's something wrong with Cindy Sheehan using her access to media outlets to promote a particular commercial or ideological message, then there are a lot of people from all sides of the political spectrum who ought to be condemned.

What the Redstate folks are really saying is that they disapprove of her message; however, they've chosen to attack the person instead of what she's saying. There's a bit of subtext implying she shouldn't have access to media outlets, but that's a pretty profoundly unappetizing bit of subtext, so you won't see it stated clearly. It's always difficult to say "we don't believe she should have a platform."

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You must condemn X. You must condemn Y.

"Islam is proven evil by the failure of mainstream Islam to condemn terrorism." (Never mind that this is untrue to begin with.)

The problem is fairly obvious; the question is how to get ouf of the trap. How do we avoid falling into the belief that failure to condemn implies approval? Everyone does it.