NewsBusters regularly excoriates people in the media for saying unpleasant things about conservatives, but when right-wingers say vile things about liberals, it’s either ignored or encouraged. One beneficiary of this blatant double standard has been Ann Coulter.
In that spirit, Mark Finkelstein performs a similar service with a Noel Sheppard level of fawning in a Nov. 29 post, gushing over how, in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “the irrepressible Ann called Ted Kennedy ‘human pestilence.'” Funny, we don’t recall Finkelstein or anyone else at NewsBusters describing, say, Bill Maher as “irrepressible.”
Further, Finkelstein makes no mention whatsoever of another insult Coulter hurled during the same show that was so vile MSNBC cut off her audio.
Is Finkelstein so gutless that he won’t call out Coulter for saying something he’d attack had it come out of the mouth of someone who wasn’t a right-wing darling? Apparently so. Sheppard, meanwhile, is similarly gutless, since he hasn’t said a word about the foul words out of his beloved Coulter’s mouth. He was too busy being distracted by Coulter saying something adorable on another channel.