The Year in Liberal Hate Speech

Jeff Jacoby, on Townhall, continues his annual series on liberal hate speech and the media double standard that coddles it.

Classic quote:

"MSNBC fired right-wing talk host Michael Savage in July, and rightly so, when he told a gay caller to 'get AIDS and die, you pig.' The liberal Nina Totenberg, on the other hand, suffered no ill effects for saying, during the flap over General Jerry Boykin's views of Islam and the war on terrorism, 'I hope he's not long for this world.' When the startled host asked if she were 'putting a hit out on this guy,' Totenberg backtracked and said she only wanted to see him expire 'in his job.'

But this isn't the first time the NPR diva has publicly wished death on a conservative. 'I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind,' she said of Senator Jesse Helms in 1995, 'because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.'"

Naturally, I need to start doing this sort of thing with Katherine Lanpher, Doug Grow and Brian Lambert.