Boxing Metaphors, Siiiigghhh

Joan Walsh (columnist for Salon, former sportswriter--what is it lately with former sportswriters?--at San Francisco Chronicle) pushed back against Terry Jeffrey on Hardball.

That said, Joan was very strong last night. We’ll let you watch the tape to see the things she said and did. But these are the things liberals should be saying to pimp/hustlers like Jeffrey. Joan came amazingly close:

This is pure crap—and you know it’s pure crap.

You and your movement have been inventing this crap for the past twenty years. You did the same thing to President Clinton with your goddamn murder lists.

You are disrespecting—and using—average Americans when you get them to believe this pure crap.

Something keeps Joan from that second statement. Due to our own treasured disrespect, we liberals often can’t bring ourselves to make the third statement. (We kill our interests in the process.) But Joan punched Jeffrey around the ring last night, exhibiting fully appropriate scorn; we rarely see liberals push back so hard. And she stressed her American values as she did so. Good for her!

Via the Daily Howler.