The Company You Keep

The moralizing midget, Mickey Kaus, has criticized the New York Times website for running "Sponsored Links" to sites promoting ephedra and Masters Tournament vacation packages while simultaneously publishing anti-ephedra and anti-Masters editorials and articles. Mick concludes, in regard to the Masters link, "It's hypocrisy, I tell you!"

The criticism of the Times Online link is legitimate argument, although there's something to be said (and it was, by Jesse Unruh) for taking a company's money and spending it to campaign against the company.

But let's hold Mick to the same standard. Kaus links -- for free, apparently -- to the racist and anti-gay hate website Lucianne.com.

Here are some recent comments from Lucianne's prized posters:

Reply 5 - Posted by: doubting thomas, 2/25/2003 8:03:46 PM

Powerful stuff, it turns male fairies into lezzies, their mustaches fall off and the hooters grow.

Reply 3 - Posted by: JHHolliday, 2/25/2003 7:57:07 PM

The Brits are losing control of their country. Thousands of immigrant WOGS have overrun the cities and political correctness has run amok. Combine that with socialism and the dole and we get to see what our country will look like in 50 years.

Reply 5 - Posted by: Gatsby, 2/24/2003 8:23:34 PM

Gee, being gay means being a filthy, disgusting pervert and he should be offended to be called such a thing? I see him as an intensely private man who wishes his public life be limited to the things he does in public. I respect him either way.

Reply 2 - Posted by: JHHolliday, 2/25/2003 8:01:08 PM

[On missing radioactive material in Nigeria] Not to worry. They stole it because some witch doctor told them it would cure AIDS if they spread it on their privates.

Reply 16 - Posted by: A. Mariner, 2/24/2003 8:56:20 PM

Hmmmmm [Para.] Sexually deviant, perverted homosexuals are anything but gay. Gag, maybe, but not gay. [Para.] old sailor . . . .

Does linking to Lucianne.com make Kaus a hypocrite? That depends on whether he endorses these sentiments or disavows them.