Malkin(s) the Sensitive

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

Then:

Oh, cry me a river [, Cindy].

Now (shorter):

Hey! Quit making Mrs. Alito cry, you big meanies.

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Dadahead:

Boo-fucking-hoo. How about a little sympathy for all the women who will be relegated to the status of second-class citizen if Mrs. Alito's husband has his way?

And via Dadahead, Wolcott:

The hypocritical highpoint came when Newt Gingrich, who during his reign as Speaker of the House did more than any political leader in recent memory to dump raw sewage into the political discourse, had the gall to invoke Joseph Welch's famous rhetorical throwdown of moral umbrage during the McCarthy hearings--"At long last, sir, have you no decency?"--to showboat his phony disgust over this trivial episode of upset feelings.

Yes, so heartsick were conservatives over this lady in distress that they immediately hurrahed Mrs. Alito's walkout as the humanizing moment that would win the public's sympathy vote and put Judge Alito's candidacy over the top and assure him a seat on the Court. If Alito is confirmed, Mrs. Alito and Judge Clarence Thomas's wife can commisserate by exchanging monogrammed crying towels as their men folk roll back women's rights and civil liberties and go duck hunting weekends with Scalia.

To paraphrase Tom Hanks, there's no crying in politics.

Not, anyway, by those who sit in their ivory tower and look down carelessly on millions of lives - or those who aspire to.

I assume, unlike some others, that Mrs. Alito's tears were real.

I am certain, however, that the right's outrage is not.

Update: LA reminds me that the Malkin daughter was enlisted in the "Don't be a crybaby" Voinovich letter-writing campaign.

Hypocrites. Filthy, stinking hypocrites.