On the ever-so-slight defensive:

When it comes to speaking and writing on unpleasant matters, I learned a long time ago to stop apologizing. It is a waste of my breath, time, and energy to precede every political discussion with “I’m not saying all [X] are [Y].” Or: “Of course, I don’t hate all [Z] and please don’t misunderstand me, blah, blah, blah.”

Okay, I’ll go ahead and give you the benefit of the doubt and say you’re just the most unskilled rhetorician ever. Because even my four-year-old could recognize the associations and reactions you’ve worked so hard in building. So if you really want us to believe that none of this was your intent, that when you post jihad maps and calls to genocide and whatever the hell you call this, that you mean no sort of dehumanization or conflation, well…

…you’d have to really suck at this.

“Absolutely ungodly”:

AP reports on the atmosphere:

“The audience showed where its allegiance lay when former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, came to the podium to wild cheers and a long standing ovation. He opened by saying that he was honored to be with the other former presidents. Someone in the crowd yelled out, “Future president!” in reference to his wife’s possible 2008 bid.”

Guess that plantation pandering worked, eh, Hillary?

Oh my, that’s offensive. If I remember, Hillary’s “plantation” reference was followed by “and I think you know what I’m talking about.”

The fact that they apparently did know what she was talking about just eats you up inside, doesn’t it, Malkin?

Shorter Malkin:

If black people aren’t offended by Hillary’s remarks, then they’re wrong, because those remarks were offensive to black people.

Update:More Malkin fun with photos! Under the caption “Having too much fun:” comes this photo:

I hate to break it to you, but Dems aren’t the only ones smiling in that picture. In fact, whoever took that photo needs to work on their framing; they just about cut the First Lady right out of the picture…

Ohhh.

Update 2: Via comments, eb shares another relevant image:

And then improves on it. Just like a grad student, right?

So I was sitting here trying to think of a good analogy for the Mohammed cartoons flap. Something along the lines of “Imagine Piss Christ but created by a Soviet Russian superpower which was systematically waging war on Christian nations.” It wasn’t a very good analogy, which is why I was still sitting thinking.

But Ryan came up with a much better one.

Editorial Cartoonist approaches controversial subject. Portion of audience is offended and righteously indignant. Opportunistic leaders take advantage of the timing and speak out in violent terms against Cartoonist. Cartoonist receives death threats. Cartoonist loses syndication on The New York Times website.

This is the basic outline of what happened to Ted Rall upon feeling the wrath of upset right wingers when NYTimes.com posted the infamous Pat Tillman cartoon.

And there you have it. “The difference between Us and Them,” eh, Malkin?

Which hide utter bullshit. I mean, really, what is the point of this?

Basically, the west is green (”defenders of freedom of speech”) and the Middle East is red (”violent rabid out-to-get-your-children Muslims”). Never mind the fact that on a government level, almost every country, including the Middle Eastern countries, have denounced the violence. If you’ve got a citizen in the street wearing a green headband, it gets you on the list.

Via Parrotline, whose reaction to Malkin’s little Triumph of the Wingnut is here, Dean Esmay not only gets it right, but gets it right in style:

Also, I demand that all you Christians and Christian apologists immediately answer for these guys and these guys and these guys. And they must be specific examples of prominent Christian leaders doing the condemning. No blanket condemnations allowed. I want a condemnation of every single KKK lynching in the last 100 years while your’e at it. And you must come up with all of them right now or I win and you lose! HaHAAAAA my pretty!

Go read the whole thing to really get the full effect.