The Redhunter

Anyone who has followed Michelle's blog or seen her newspaper columns knows that she has written about the sexualization of young girls, and how harmful to them and society this is. Eric Muller, who is actually a law professor at the University of North Carolina, responded by linking to a a photo which allegedly showed a young Malkin in a bikini. This, he said, shows that she is a hypicrite. Except that, uh, the photo is an obvious photoshop forgery. Then Wonkette posted a few pieces also claiming that Malkin is a hypocrite.

Besides the insanity of thinking that a simple pose in a bikini invalidates Malkin's thesis (I guess Muller and Wonkette can't be bothered to read what she actually wrote), and besides that the photo is such an obvious fake that only someone afflicted with Malkin Derangement Syndrome would believe it to be real, there's the whole business of the slimey and disgusting way that they tried to use it against her. In this respect, Wonkette was the worst, the writing on that site being very juvenile. Muller is a bit better, but not by much.

Michelle Malkin is a no-holds-barred conservative writer. She pulls no punches and calls them like she sees them. But she's always kept her criticism above board, never sinking to the level of racial or sexual slurs. I'd say I agree with her 90% of the time.

Now, Wonkette is one of those blogs that I've heard of but never visited. I'd gathered that it was a gossip-column sort of thing, and figured it was similar to what you see in major newspapers, a sort of "talk of the town" section. I even seem to recall that Ava Marie Cox was on CNN one time along with Andrew Sullivan to comment on one of President Bush's State of the Union addresses.

But today when I saw Michelle's post I decided to follow the link to Wonkette and see for myself. Was I ever in for a surprise. "Politics for people with dirty minds" is what you get when you search for them on Google. Uh huh. Bottom line is that it's a stupid site and quite beyond me what people see in it. But this isn't the first time that Wonkette has sunk to this level with Malkin. The first time was much worse.

Muller? Well, for a university professor he's a disgrace.

This Episode is the Least of It

As these things go with Michelle Malkin, this episode was pretty mild. Leftists have a fixation on attacking her in the most vile sexual and racist manner.

Don't believe me? She's got it all documented, see here, here, here, here and here. Actually there's more, but you'll get the point.

Not Just Michelle

Michael Steele is running as a Republican for US Senate in the state of Maryland. He is also black. He also has been the victim of racial slurs from liberals.

Last November I reported on Maryland Democrats who thought that there was "nothing wrong" with racial attacks on a black man, as long as he was a Republican.

From the Washington Times story that prompted my post is worth quoting at length

Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in his bid for the U.S. Senate are fair because he is a conservative Republican.

Such attacks against the first black man to win a statewide election in Maryland include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an "Uncle Tom" and depicting him as a black-faced minstrel on a liberal Web log.

Operatives for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) also obtained a copy of his credit report -- the only Republican candidate so targeted.

But black Democrats say there is nothing wrong with "pointing out the obvious."

"There is a difference between pointing out the obvious and calling someone names," said a campaign spokesman for Kweisi Mfume, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

State Sen. Lisa A. Gladden, a black Baltimore Democrat, said she does not expect her party to pull any punches, including racial jabs at Mr. Steele, in the race to replace retiring Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes.

"Party trumps race, especially on the national level," she said. "If you are bold enough to run, you have to take whatever the voters are going to give you. It's democracy, perhaps at its worse, but it is democracy."

Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black.

Unreal.

How about that liberal tolerance?