There is no moral equivalency here. The two bloggers, in other words, aren't at all equally misguided. Specifically:
Ben's post, as essentially all of you have accurately pointed out, was a swing and a miss.
Gary's comment? Um, wow. The sharpest comment I can find above is "paranoid," but I would be sorely tempted to go considerably beyond that. Reread the thing! It truly beggars belief.