AirAmerica and Rhodes rage

You've probably heard that AirAmerica (yes, it's still broadcasting . . . somewhere) hostess Randi Rhodes has been suspended for calling Hillary "a f***ing whore" in the context of shilling for Barack Obama. As is noted at National Review Online, this is reflective (perhaps) of political activists in general, but it is definitely true of Liberal political activists, who fight for keeps, baby.

There's something rather heartening about this for those of us on the right who've been on the receiving end of the left's vehemence: Apparently there really is nothing personal about it. You can be a chickenhawk warmonger racist homophobe mysogynist Bush shill or a pro-feminist pro-gay pro-black icon of progressive politics for a generation, but, if you cross the likes of Randi Rhodes, you're all the same and you merit the same four-letter words and KKK slurs. The left's Discoursometer is like one of those shower units where the slightest nudge turns it to scalding.