Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Vile Left Gets a Pass
Steve Malzberg
Thursday, June 15, 2006
You have to admire the brazen hypocrisy being exhibited by the liberal media when it comes to the treatment that Ann Coulter has been receiving from them.
She has been so vilified that at least one liberal columnist has reportedly suggested she'd be better off dead. He actually asked her, "Would it kill you to do us all a favor and kill yourself?" But that columnist, Simon Dumenco of Ad Age, gets away unscathed – as do the rest of those who have directed vile, outrageous and shameful remarks in the direction of Coulter and others on the right.
Let's take the much-hyped Wednesday night matchup on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" on NBC between Coulter and George Carlin.
You may remember Carlin as the man behind the "seven words you can't say on TV."
I also cannot write them on these pages.
In a CNN.com story about the Leno show, Coulter is described as "the acid-tongued conservative" while good old George is tabbed as "the quick-witted, anti-establishment comedian." I also see that he is in the voice cast of the new hit movie for kids called "Cars." (Disney might want to take a closer look at its movie voices in the future.)
I wonder when Ann will get her shot to voice a kids movie?
During a Sept. 9, 2005 appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" Carlin used his quick wit to take this gratuitous shot at our president:
"Governor Bush, and I call him that because it's really the last thing he was elected to, ... when he reaches his Christian heaven I think he will have a lot to answer for." As for the president's mother, Carlin told Maher, "The silver douche bag, I call her."
Far from evoking any Ann Coulter-type outrage, the slur elicited a hearty roar from the audience, a broad grin and chuckle from fellow guest Cynthia Tucker, a columnist from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and a good laugh from the host himself.
I also don't recall any outrage from the left when comic Whoopi Goldberg took to the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York City for a democratic fund-raiser for the Kerry-Edwards ticket back on July 8, 2004.
According to the New York Post, "Waving a bottle of wine, Goldberg fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia." Goldberg reportedly said the country should "keep Bush where it belongs and not in the White House."
Not only did John Kerry not object to the vulgarities, but he actually took to the stage at the end of the night and thanked all the performers for "an extraordinary evening" and said that every performer "conveyed to you the heart and sole of America."
I don't recall a group of congressmen writing a letter to Goldberg or Carlin asking for an apology they way they did to Coulter.
I don't recall state legislators in New Jersey or anywhere urging a boycott of Goldberg, Carlin or, for that matter Alec Baldwin, who had urged the stoning of Congressman Henry Hyde during the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the way they have for Coulter.
Might I have said what Coulter has said about the "Jersey Girls" in a different way? Yes, and I have many times. But the reaction by the left to what Coulter did say is just another example, the latest example, of selective outrage, aka the old double standard.