The irony is utterly lost on them, of course.

Sadly, I’m seeing a similar pattern on The Huffington Post lately, on stories about Ann Coulter defending the GOP debate audience that booed a gay US soldier. Lots of people attacking her for demeaning gays in the same breath as calling her “he”, or “it”, or making any number of transsexual slurs. It’s frankly amazing the extent to which cognitive dissonance has become the norm for people. When the only metric is “defend your tribe, attack theirs”, pesky details like whether you’re being demonstrably racist or homophobic/transphobic miraculously don’t matter anymore.