Why do I feel like someone posted the equivalent of extremist Tea Party crap (or Micheal Moore crap for that matter), and we all took the (troll) bait? Just rea

Why do I feel like someone posted the equivalent of extremist Tea Party crap (or Micheal Moore crap for that matter), and we all took the (troll) bait? Just read through the back and forths herein. I thought Hacker News was smarter than this. I thought I was. :( We have better things to do. More intelligent things to disagree with.