"They take pride in being ignorant"

See, this is a good response. It's not dirty politics to point out that someone's criticisms of your statements are not grounded in reality.

Now, if only the television media can start actually calling certain individuals out on getting their opponents policy positions completely wrong, or actually using facts to contradict spin without worrying about being perceived as "biased", then we might have an honest to God political debate leading up to this thing in November. Of course, if that's the case, we'll win by a landslide.