Rudeness Toward Pundits

This morning on CNN's Reliable Sources, Mary Katharine Ham, a blogger at townhall.com, contested Ariana Huffington's claim that the problem of rude or threatening comments on blogs "is not about right-left."

I disagree just a little bit. I think it is easy to say that this is a problem of both sides without realizing that there — despite Arianna's obvious comportment and elegance on TV, that there are some serious monkeys hanging from the rafters over on the left side of the blogosphere.

And Michelle Malkin has been getting the C-word and the W-word in her in-box for years. And the same folks who wish for Cheney to be assassinated online are saying, you know, that Condi is a — is brown sugar or, you know, a house slave.

So I think that they — there really is a problem on the left side of the blogosphere…

It's funny, but just this morning, I found some rudeness here. And here. Not to mention here. And even in the comments to one of Ham's own blog posts, here.

But did you really expect someone like Ham to give up the chance to take a partisan swack at the left? Ahhh, no.

See the Pattern?

Alberto Gonzales botches the White House vetting of Bernie Kerik for Secretary of Homeland Security and gets promoted to Attorney General. Rudy Giuliani pushed for the nomination in the first place and now leads in the polls for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Kerik was such an obvious disaster, and these people just didn't see it or didn't care. It seems like Kerik isn't the only one with some pretty serious character flaws.

Walk On By

It pains me to admit it, but I'm sure I would have been one of the people who rushed past without even looking.