Let's get right to it. Michelle Malkin. Again.
We all know the long story. The short version here is that she's decided it's fair game to stalk the family of the 12 year old kid who had the temerity to use the SCHIP program and say he liked it, and that you might, too. This was evil, of course, because although Malkin's family faced pretty much the same predicament three years ago, her family is Republican and presumably has a lot of American flag lapel pins, while this kid's family is a bunch of Jerkoff Nazis from Planet Stalin.
But here's how, despite the outrage, the media insists on being dumber than Malkin. As emptywheel points out, when the New York Times finally takes note of the fact that Malkin is a corrosive bottom-feeder, they forget all about her syndicated newspaper column and semi-regular TeeVee appearances (including substituting for Bill O'Reilly) and she becomes...
Michelle Malkin, one of the bloggers who have strongly criticized the Frosts....
Yes, only an icky-poopie blah-grr would sink so low. Didn't you know?
Next up, Media Matters has the latest on Coulter.
Again, no news here. Coulter continues to find there is nothing she can say that's too insulting to actually keep her off television.
We knew that. And the TeeVee Jackasses who host her know it, too. But just as with any train wreck, it is impossible for them to look away. The day will come when she'll have to kill and eat one of them on their own show to have an impact. And they'll line up for the opportunity, and offer a variety of dipping sauces as an enticement.
Today's prize boob: CNBC's Donny Deutsch.
Why? For having Coulter on his show and pretending to be outraged and personally offended when she told him the world would be better off without any Jews.
Shocking? Outrageous? Sure. But if you think Deutsch didn't know she was going to say something like that, or equally insulting, then you're both idiots.
You can go to Media Matters for the full transcript of the relevant part of the show, but I'll show you the key portion (and how stupefied Deutsch lets himself get) over the flip.
DEUTSCH: That isn't what I said, but you said I should not -- we should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians, then, or --
COULTER: Yeah.
DEUTSCH: Really?
COULTER: Well, it's a lot easier. It's kind of a fast track.
DEUTSCH: Really?
Yeah, Donny. Yeah. (Really? Really really?) Yes! Yes, you jackass! Yes!
And it only gets worse.
COULTER: Yeah. You have to obey.
DEUTSCH: You can't possibly believe that.
COULTER: Yes.
DEUTSCH: You can't possibly -- you're too educated, you can't -- you're like my friend in --
You can't possibly! You're on all the TeeVee shows! You're a Very Serious Person! You live in The Village!
COULTER: Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion, but you have to obey.
DEUTSCH: No, no, no, but I mean --
COULTER: We have the fast-track program.
DEUTSCH: Why don't I put you with the head of Iran? I mean, come on. You can't believe that.
Gee, Donny, why don't you? Why don't you do that? Is it because the other TeeVee People say "the head of Iran" is cra-a-a-a-zee, but Ann Coulter, author and noted pundit is "respectable people," and you believe it, because they wouldn't all be TeeVee People if they were actually this bat$#*% insane?
COULTER: The head of Iran is not a Christian.
DEUTSCH: No, but in fact, "Let's wipe Israel" --
COULTER: I don't know if you've been paying attention.
Clearly not!
DEUTSCH: "Let's wipe Israel off the earth." I mean, what, no Jews?
COULTER: No, we think -- we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
DEUTSCH: Wow, you didn't really say that, did you?
How many times are you going to pretend you didn't hear it, Donny?
COULTER: Yes. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. We know we're all sinners --
DEUTSCH: In my old days, I would have argued -- when you say something absurd like that, there's no --
COULTER: What's absurd?
DEUTSCH: Jews are going to be perfected. I'm going to go off and try to perfect myself --
COULTER: Well, that's what the New Testament says.
Shock! Outrage! Most disgusting thing I've ever heard! Followed by...
DEUTSCH: Ann Coulter, author of If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, and if Ann Coulter had any brains, she would not say Jews need to be perfected. I'm offended by that personally. And we'll have more Big Idea when we come back.
...a return to normalcy. (She's an author! A scholar! A blonde!)
And the audience vomits on itself, as TeeVee Thinky-Smart Man Donny Deutsch follows this outrage with... a plug for the book. As if he were chatting up the author of Nicey Niceington Goes to Niceville and Enjoys Some Tea with her Sweetums.
Really, is there anything you can say that will just get you kicked out of The Village forever?
The true genius of Coulter, if you ask me, is that she's always maintained that TeeVee People are degenerates, and that nothing delights them more than crapping themselves in faux shock and then making you watch them play in their own filth. They come to the set dressed up in Serious Person Business Suits, and she comes to retell The Aristocrats.
And we'll be right back after these messages.