Of course, she didn’t lose her job. She resigned, and writes that no one asked her to resign or put pressure on her in any way. In fact, she writes that she was planning on resigning anyway, since she wanted to move back to Oregon to be among the moonbats there (her words)

It’s like giving up watermelon for lent. Big sacrifice, eh, Deb?

The truly disturbing thing isn’t that Deb executed this psych experiment on the blogosphere (say something outrageous, see how stirred up they get). It’s the posters that are defending her. Yes, she was out of bounds, they say, but Rumsfeld/Goldstein/Malkin/Bushitler are so much worse! Anything she does is fair, since her targets are pure distilled evil!

Then there are those that say all she did was words. Words never hurt, only actions count.

To those people, I will note that Charles Manson was never charged with hurting anyone himself. That Pol Pot never fired a gun, that Jim Jones only gave the orders to mix up the coolaid and pass it around. Words ARE deeds.

It would help everyone - Debbi, the left side of the blogosphere, the general public, EVERYONE - if Debbi would show some genuine contrition. I doubt she will, because she doesn’t believe she’s done anything wrong.

This is mostly an intelligent and reasonable post. But you had to put this sentence in there too: “No doubt her army of salivating lap-dog pit bulls are Googling the perp’s address…” and this: “To be sure, the right suffers from it’s share of whackjobs, but that’s their mystique. They benefit from that, feed on it as Ms. Malkin frequently demonstrates.”

And then you have this plea to Jeff Goldstein: “Please refrain from the very human tendency to generalize all progressives by her actions.”

Yeah. what you said. Please refrain from the very human tendency to generalize all conservatives by any one conservatives actions.

Is it possible that you are unaware that we on the right view Michael Moore, Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, Steven Colbert and a slew of other prominent leftist figures in pretty much the same way you view Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, etc? Is it possible you don’t understand that when liberals get together to gush over the political hit-job movie “Fahrenheit 911″ that we view that as you “feeding on the mystique” of lies, exaggerations and intentional misrepresentations?

You sound like a reasonable and rational person, and yet in the very post that you ask the right to separate Dr. Frisch from the “normal” progressives, you demonstrate exactly the same kind of simplified caricatures of the right as Dr. Frisch, does, you just don’t descend to the level of offensive vitriol that she espouses.

I spent a lot of time reading responses to this affair on both sides of the blogosphere yesterday, and let me tell you, it is amazaing how startingly similar the attitudes and condescenscion is on both sides. You could take a typical post on a right-wing website, replace “moonbat” with “wingnut”, replace “Kossack” with “Dittohead”, replace “traitor” with “baby-killer” and post that on a leftwing site and it would slide right into the thread as if it were born to be there.

It’s sad, really.

Why can’t it just be wrong? Why does condemnation have to go both ways regarding the clear wrongdoing of just one person? Why must your condemnation include things about your political opponents that just aren’t true? Why isn’t it enough to note that one of yours is way off the rails?

This is why we never get anywhere.