Sure is quick to fill up your BS Bingo card with the phrases in this piece of "journalism".
His attack on Matt Stone for telling uniformed people not to vote says it all. Stone wasn't promoting apathy, he was telling people that they have a responsibility to get the facts before they make a decision, to not be swayed by rhetorical decorum or celebrity endorsement, and not to put ideology ahead of reality. What does Emerson do? He throws a tantrum at Stone, and levels the same ad homneim comments against him (and Dennis Miller) which he supposedly deplores.