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July 8, 2003

A Hard Right to the Chin

Hey! Even the Wall Street Journal slams the new Ann Coulter jeremiad. Strengthening the blow, they assure us they haven't gone soft on "liberals" with a gratuitous slander of Maureen Dowd: They equate the two in the subhead. (Take it for the team, MoDo.)

Also making today a good day is news that the clearly disturbed Michael Savage has been dismissed by MSNBC. Somehow a discussion about airplane tedium abruptly plunged into a vicious and seemingly unrelated attack on the caller's orientation:

"Oh, you're one of the sodomites," Savage said. "You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it."

Good riddance, Mr. Savage, you sick, pathetic man. May your audience wander the wasteland evermore. I'm especially looking forward to the apologia that Andrew Sullivan will craft in defense of yet another martyred conservative.

AFTERTHOUGHT: I didn't realize that the part in the Savage story where what the caller said becomes unintelligible is apparently where the caller called Savage out in some crude fashion, which caused the savvy media professional to lose his mind and violently regurgitate his unhinged bigotry on the air. I stand by my earlier comments.