Coulter. Oy.

Yesterday, in Crybaby Chronicles: Part I, I mused over what happens when journalists go bad, and behave like spoiled brats in a schoolyard spat. If you recall, I gave the victory to the “liberal media” side, represented by our very own Houston Chron…

And he’s overtly racist to boot. I don’t know where one would categorize him, but it wouldn’t be “leftist” — nor prominent within that circle, even if one could place him there.

I ran your link to John Hawkins’ post — and I have to tell you, this entire “yeah, but the other side is worse” meme is really getting pretty funny. BOTH sides do it, whether they’re using vulgar language, or taking the more literate high-road approach.

I think that’s the biggest difference, overall, between the more extreme left and right: one wing tends to rave with vulgarity, while the other wing attempts to disguise their hate speech.

Meanwhile — Coulter’s problem differs from that of bloggers in that she has this unfortunate tendency to make such statements at political functions that are supposedly representative of the conservative movement. She’s a loose cannon who has repeatedly blackened the eye of people like James Joyner (who commented above), for instance, because by association, she gives all the rest of the Republicans a really bad name.

As for Farrakan….. “Million Man March”

He certainly doesn’t represent conservative, right, or mom and apple pie values.

Evidently, “faggot” is worse than “raghead”.

In fairness, many of us on the list condemned her for “raghead” at the time and, indeed, have sounded off against her over-the-top nonsense for years.