shouldn’t someone who is not simply a commenter but a moderator hold themselves to some kind of standard above enjoying insulting the commenters of the blog they moderate?

You have a legitimate point here, Jim. I am obviously not accomplishing anything by participating in comments threads on TMV anyway, so I will endeavor to do so only rarely, if at all, in the future.

Thank you for making it so clear.

This (instant) response on from a lefty was typical and, therefore, predictable: “Pretty mild compared to the hate speech we hear from Coulter.”

I continue to be mystified why so many lefties continually emulate what they claim to despise.

Let’s see…you call a response that you criticize harshly typical of “lefties” yet now you claim to only be criticizing some “leftists”. John Edwards makes one comment about Coulter and he is suddenly equivalent to her or trying to emulate her and her volumes of bile. CS says on Michael’s blog that none of you are trying to defend Coulter but what does it do when you paint someone as being just like her only on the other side when in fact it is a false comparison?

But of course you weren’t criticizing all the the commenters, oh no. But why would you do that? Oh, yes. You once claimed that you just enjoyed taking the opposite position of any majority you found yourself in. But shouldn’t someone who is not simply a commenter but a moderator hold themselves to some kind of standard above enjoying insulting the commenters of the blog they moderate? But wait, you also criticize lefties on a conservative blog. But shouldn’t you be taking the liberal position on a conservative blog if that’s what drives you as you claimed? Gee, which position is the true one? Or is there one? Probably not.

And that is an interesting double-bind that you and Chris seem to have constructed here. You and others who share your hostility towards conservatives are allowed to say just about anything in the pursuit of that ideology and if anyone complains, they are told that conservatives deserve it because some other conservatives (Bush, Cheney, Coulter, pick your favorite demon), but if anyone criticizes your side in ANY amount, that is “hypocrisy” or otherwise out of bounds.

Give it a rest. When the commenters on TMV start being fair to the righties and their arguments, then I might start to care about their complaints about criticisms coming their way. Put bluntly, I’ll put down my rhetorical gun when you all do.

Until then, if it makes you feel like you have scored points by crying “hypocrisy” every time your side takes a hit, well, have fun with that.

But it also doesn’t change my opinion of your comments about liberals on your own site where you agree completely with Jason when he shows the hypocrisy in his claims that the only reason he takes the right wing’s side so much here is because of it being a liberal web site.

What it says is that you agree with the statement Jason makes on your blog. It also says that the statement he made shows his hypocrisy when he claims he is not right wing, that he only posts things against liberals in places where they dominate in his opinion. Because it is also true that I have never seen anyone who wasn’t sneering at liberals call them lefties. Ever.

That’s true.

As for the other comment, he didn’t make that in the comment section at the post i link to. I agreed with the comment he left there, not with every comment he ever made. In other words: your interpretation is a bit creative.

Or should I say liberal?

I continue to be mystified why so many lefties continually emulate what they claim to despise.