Since we're in the discrediting bloggers business this week. Hey, it's only trillions of dollars to private corporations. Destroying a blogger is the truly important thing here. I do not condone Hamsher's use of blackface. It is a deeply offensive, indefensible act. However, I would note her crime cannot begin to compare to the lurid history of Andrew Sullivan, a man now venerated on this site.

For those who cannot help but approve of Andrew Sullivan and repeatedly post his tripe on DU, but are currently hyperventilating over Hamsher's error, some history, in case you weren't aware:

- Sullivan supported publishing excerpts of the Bell Curve as editor of the New Republic. It is a deeply racist work smothered in pseudo-science. Rather than advance or evolve beyond these views, Sullivan has remained steadfast in his belief over the years that there are genetic racial components to intelligence. As recently as two years ago, he was hawking this racial snake oil on his blog.

- Sullivan spent the majority of his career denigrating the LGBT community. He consistently criticized the "libidinal pathologies" of gay men while presenting himself as morally upright, conservative, Catholic, special, different from those "bad gays". He profited handsomely from MSM work as the one acceptable gay in public discourse.

In the end, however, Sullivan's own libidinal pathologies were far greater than anything he assigned to the community at large. While we struggled for our place in society and equality, Sullivan scrambled onto television and into newspapers to tear down the community in his own image. To this day, it remains one of the greatest disgraces in the community.

- Sullivan is a proud misogynist. During last year's campaign, he polished bizarre, fixated sexism to an ever glossier shine. He has long complained about women being "too in charge" of the LGBT community. The complaint surfaces again and again in his thoughts.

- Finally, there was no greater cheerleader for the war in Iraq than Andrew Sullivan. After 9/11, he referred to liberals and the Left as a traitorous fifth column, while positioning himself as some kind of journalistic McCarthyite.

- Frankly, it is an insult to see Sullivan lavishly praised here after all he has done. Sure, he says nice things about the President, but the damage he has caused is far beyond the power of his blog to repair by simply being somewhat nicer to Democrats than he has been in the past. He is, at heart, a coward who always attempts to be on the winning side. He is untrustworthy and as vile as any right-winger out there. His history speaks for itself.