Arianna Huffington is desperately trying to distance herself from the flood of unbelievably vile comments about Dick Cheney that were posted at her site (she calls it “a minuscule portion” of her readers, which is, well, a blatant lie), and of course, she lashes out at LGF to do it: Limbaugh, Hannity, and the Right’s Faux Fury Over Anonymous Comments.

Exclusively on the left? He can’t be serious. There are endless examples to disprove this, including the comments that appeared on Little Green Footballs (a site Rush has glowingly praised) after a UN outpost in Lebanon was blown up by an errant Israeli missile: “Too bad Kofi wasn’t there too,” “I’d be laughing my ass off if somebody launched one right in Kofi’s office while he was groping his secretary,” “4 less UN terrorist collaborators. Good Job IDF,” “Maybe a couple more UN observation posts getting blown to hell would be appropriate.”

These are (by coincidence I’m sure) the exact same comments cherry-picked by Glenn Greenwald (aka Socky Sockpuppet) in his latest smear job. At least you could do your own cherry-picking, Arianna.

She has one point; extreme comments are not found exclusively on the left. And that’s why there is a very clear disclaimer posted at every LGF comments page, explaining that these comments are only the opinions of the commenters, not of LGF, and that if a comment remains posted here, it in no way indicates approval.

I don’t see any such disclaimer at Huffington Post, and the fact is that, despite her grade-school level attempt to deflect the blame, Arianna’s site has justifiably gained the reputation for allowing crazier and more hateful comments than almost any blog on the internet.

And on the left, you will often find these sorts of comments being made by the bloggers themselves, not only by their anonymous readers and commenters—amply demonstrated by the John Edwards-Pandagon scandal.

UPDATE at 3/1/07 9:02:35 am:

Don’t miss the comments to Huffington’s lame defense. The craziness is strong in these moonbats.

UPDATE at 3/1/07 6:48:20 pm:

And what Arianna’s attacks are supposed to cover up: the Huffington Post carried out a massive purge of assassination-advocating posts, after the spotlight shined on them. More than 400 posts were deleted in one topic on Dick Cheney. Some remnants, and complaints from deleted moonbats, can still be found in the comments for Tony Hendra’s despicable post: Suicide Bomber Fails to Stop World’s # 1 Homicide Bomber.