For one thing, the right is much better self-policed. Indeed, over-policed. As the Jeong incident illustrates, the left never jettisons one of their own over mere words, no matter how inflammatory or evil. But the right betrays its own all the time, over trivialities. All the left has to do is raise a stink and demand a scalp, and here come the “conservatives,” knives out, sharp and eager. Trent Lott buttering up a senator of five decades’ standing on his hundredth (!) birthday? Git ’im!
