My own issues with Michelle Malkin have to do with her occasional rhetorical excesses and her hard-right politics. But she’s often a brave writer, even when I disagree with her (which is a lot of the time). And I have to say the kind of abuse she has received for being a minority conservative is truly vile and upsetting. It is, however, to be expected. It comes from right and left. The web seems to empower it. My favorite email this week:
Sodomite, Tom Delay isn’t doing anything the Democrats haven’t done in Texas since the Civil War. You being a Lymie non citizen of this country so consumed with the fact that you have an disease that you will die of from taking it in the ass too many times. Andy Sullivan, the laughing stock of the blogosphere, even Jonah Goldberg and Glen Reynolds are sick of you. Excitable Andy Sullivan. HIV.
I like that last almost desperate acronym. It’s like the guys who hang out on my block who sometimes yell “faggot” when I walk by. Duh.
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