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Over at Media Matters they're running a poll, asking you to vote for the most disgusting, reprehensible, irresponsible moment of broadcast "journalism" since President Obama took office. The calibre of the entries on offer can be inferred from the fact that Bill O'Liarly, Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter don't even make the cut: the nominees are that bad. Here they go:

Limbaugh on Obama: "We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black"

In rant on mortgage rescue plan, CNBC's Santelli "guess[ed]" that Chicago trading floor workers are "a pretty good statistical cross-section of America, the silent majority"

Beck has car idled outside of studio during show to "do our part for global warming" [ETA: After posting this, I received breaking news from the Beeb that 1500 Indian farmers have committed suicide because the shortage of water means they cannot grow their crops. That's fifteen hundred people rendered so desperate by the changing climate that death seemed the only way out. You bet I thought long and hard about Beck's truly hilarious stunt as I read of their fate. What a wag he is!]

In CNBC host Cramer's "U.S.S.A.": "Comrade[ ]" Obama is a "Bolshevik" who is "taking cues from Lenin"

Limbaugh on EFCA: "One day Tony Soprano will walk in with a lead pipe and he will start beating people upside the head to vote to unionize"

Buchanan on congressional stimulus debate: "Honeymoon is over. There's a lot of wife beating going on."

Morris: "Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a case"

Glenn Beck mocks Obama's aunt's "limp"

Beck imitates Obama pouring gasoline on "average American"; says: "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire? ... We didn't vote to lose the Republic"

Beck: "You can't convince me that the founding fathers wouldn't allow you to secede"

Reporting on tea parties, Fox Business' Willard asks: "Guys, when are we going to wake up and start fighting the fascism that seems to be permeating this country?"

Kudlow complains about Obama and Chavez's "Boyz N The Hood handshake"

Hard to pick a winner, isn't it? We're spoiled for choice . . . and this is just the very topmost tip of an almost unimaginably large iceberg.

One wonders just how many more instances we're going to have to endure of borderline crazies and impressionable dimwits tipped over the edge by such "commentators" into going out with their guns to "get me some libruls" before we as a nation wise up to just how criminal these creeps are. Their claim is that they're protected by freedom-of-speech principles and all they're offering is opinion; in fact, of course, what they're trading in is, Goebbels-fashion, designedly inflammatory hatespeech, and they -- and those who employ them -- should be held responsible for the consequences. That's what rights are all about.