One of the awards distributed by the indefatigable Andrew Sullivan at his Daily Dish Blog is for "shrill, hyperbolic, divisive, and intemperate right-wing rhetoric." It is aptly named for Michelle Malkin, and today's nominee is John Hinderaker, subject of many of my "Power Out" posts. Sullivan cites this award-worthy passage from a July 9 post, "Soak the Rich!":
[T]he percentage of families who earn over $250,000 happens to be almost exactly the same as the percentage of homosexuals in the population. How would our ever-courageous journalists react if an American president tried to increase his odds of reelection by demonizing homosexuals and calling for draconian legislation against them?
Sullivan does not divulge that John is only getting warmed up. The graf including this passage concludes
Do you think that a president who called for discriminatory legislation against homosexuals would be criticized as divisive?
and the post ends by calling Obama "the worst president since James Buchanan." Since this would elevate Jimmy Carter, one of John's 932 jillion betes noires, over Buchanan, the only "bachelor president," I can actually detect some logic: it's meant as a sly dig at Sullivan, who's gay.
But all this is just a two-putt par for John and his Powerline colleagues. You can't be too crazy for them. Malkin is on their Blog Roll. The Daily Dish has another award named for Hugh Hewitt, whom Sullivan has called an "absurd partisan fanatic." Hewitt is on their Blog Roll, too.