I vote for Cathy Seipp’s frequent commenter “Mark.”

That’s the bottom line…period.

However, I think Mencia’s more annoying than both, but with a much smaller vocabulary, and jokes he stole from other comedians.

What the liberal media – and consumers – tell us (and Coulter both sort of addressed, and now is an example of) is that you can be a bigoted asshole of any kind as long as a. you’re making someone some money b. giving the networks and their rags and awards shows an audience and c. you feign an apology immediately afterward. Paris Hilton has been seen on home video making racist and homophobic statements and she still carries on as before… because she’s got hella cash. I have yet to her anyone with any power to call her out. Ludacris was recently photographed lovin’ up on her at her birthday party, where he performed. Instead of giving Isaiah an award, why aren’t the NAACP doing something about that?

So Coulter had a good point there, except that she used the observation to use a stinging word, as insult both John Edwards and gays, in one fell swoop. No way around it… she called him a faggot, point blank. And in doing so, says that being gay is offesnsive. A three-fer, in all. She’s right not to respond with an apology. In this case, we already knew she was a dirtbag, so what else would we expect her to say? She could apologize, but it doesn’t change that she’s a dirtbag, and she’s still going to get more coverage… she’s smart enough to see the previous examples get away with it, but she’s not going to embarass herself by caving in to whiny comments. Apologizing isn’t what Ann Coulter does… she hasn’t needed to apologize for far worse statements, and she’s still practically a household name… she makes her detractors look like a joke in the process, as she’s playing them and using their resources. She apparently has at least one close gay friend and hangs out sometimes at gay-populated events in private. But she has a public persona to uphold… and liberals let her maintain it. They have on on talk shows, in their rags, because she’s ratings gold of some kind and sells books.

This is one where everyone on either side of the coin is an asshole. If these matters really meant anything to Jews, blacks, gays and white liberals, there would be boycotts of a great magnitude… you hit some corporations in the pocket as we have the power to, and as most great changes in this country have come about… and though it won’t stop or reduce bigotry, you can be sure that we’ll see and hear less of it portrayed as though it’s okay. Less tolerance for intolerance, if you will.