W Mace and others who like the word “gobsmacked”, here’s another word for you:

GOBSHITE

Literally, “shitmouth” , meaning someone who talks a lot of shite.

Gobsmacked means, literally, “smacked in the mouth” ie stunned speechless.

Both words derive from the Irish word for beak, “gaibh” pronounced “gob” and used as slang in Ireland and the UK for "mouth.

So one might say, for example, “I don’t know why Sally seemed so gobsmacked at Michelle Malkin’s venom; everyone knows Malkin’s nothing but a gobshite.”

I’m not surprised that Hannity and Malkin would feel threatened by calls for civility. Without the ability to make vicious personal attacks on people, Hannity would have nothing to say and no listeners/viewers and Malkin would probably have to just sit there and sneer at the air.

The saddest thing is that appears to be the only reason their fans like them—their hatefulness to the other tribe.

Michelle “Big Mouth” Malkin is a coward. Confront her in person about her views and she will run away from you.

Sally is 100% correct about this little self-hating cowardly woman.

It’s time to call this hypocrite self-hating broad out!

NOTE TO MALKIN

Your so-called, right-wing extremist “fans” hate minorities, including Filipinos. Want evidence? Go on Fox Nation.

A few observations I left at Sally’s website as I listened to the audio:

- Hannity tried to distract from the issue of personalized attacks to demonizing Obama. Over and over throughout the interview.

- Michelle Malkin didn’t want to accept Sally’s apology for any time she might have “crossed the line” because it would make her look bad by comparison because she doesn’t know the words “I’m Sorry.”

- I just heard Hannity groan when Sally said she believes in America and thinks we can disagree with each other. WTF!

-Michelle Malkin makes her living being snarky and bitchy and would lose 99% of her followers if she wasn’t. She’s psychologically and financially trapped in that persona.

- My own experience is that the radical right see anything other than all out attack as weakness. I too have been accused of being smug, coy and fake when trying to reign in my anger and be reasonable and rational.

Sally’s page about this: http://sallykohn.com/2012/06/2665/

Tweet your support to Sally: @sallykohn

Be nice to Michelle Malkin :D @MichelleMalkin

And follow me on Twitter! @NewsHoundAlex

If Malkin ever faces herself she’ll end up in therapy for the rest of her life, if not institutionalized. I think the shock would be too much to process without drugs and psychotherapy. I wish I was kidding. I often wonder what happened to her in childhood to make her the bitter, vicious, vindictive and hateful person she is.

Bag-of-hammers KKKlannity and incorrigible sourpuss Ms. Maglalang invariably respond to inconvenient facts with their usual mean-spirited dismissiveness and bullying.

Regarding the comments to this story:

It is not a requirement to agree with everyone in order to discuss important topics. When trying to make a point, digressing into negativity and name calling is neither helpful, nor healthy. This holds true when responding to someone else’s name calling, too. While many people may agree, pointing out that Hannity and Malkin are “idiots” or “ugly” just perpetuates the problem of incivility.

We are free to believe whatever we want, and as Americans, we have the right to free speech. We should speak out, be heard, be passionate and be honest. And, we should feel free to disagree. However, our right to express those thoughts does not come with a license to insult, demean, degrade, intimidate, or bully those who feel differently–even if the other guy did it first!

“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.” ~Author Unknown

Listening to this debate, in which Michelle Malkin and Sean Hannity decry incivility from the left while either justifying or shrugging off as humor or part of the First Amendment the incivility from the right, is enough to make me cry for my country.

Now, Ellen — don’t go all Glenn Beck on us! ;^)>

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@Kevin Koster:

“Not sure what put her into this state of mind, but one has to wonder what it’s like to live at that level of constant negativity.”

Knowing she’s an Anchor Baby may be part of it — though I think at least part of it may be her disappointment every time she looks at her reflection in the mirror, and fails to see a blue-eyed blonde . . .

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Michelle Malkin’s only means of “debate” is to act nasty and dismissive while trying to score cheap points. I wouldn’t call it good humor. It’s openly angry material. Not sure what put her into this state of mind, but one has to wonder what it’s like to live at that level of constant negativity.

Mighty Michelle Malkin smacks down another lefty loser. She is so adept at debate, she destroys these dunces with good-humored ease.

It’s the usual Faux at least two against one. And remember that the shammity has control of the mic. And anyway how can you discuss anything with people like MM and Seanny? They are in output mode non-stop. Effectively when anything is said that they want to “defeat” they always just yell “na na na na na na na”. And don’t forget that their brain-dead audience would have it no other way. Just listen to the recording – every time Kohn attempts to clarify any point one or the other jumps all over her. Unfortunately the same happens here in Australia on our ever further right media.

One other thing…

That said, I thought Kohn came off looking far classier than the vindictive, mean-spirited, hypocritical Malkin.

W mace. I agree. I think Sally did bring up the birthers but she should have made it far more explicit. Donald Trump said this, Ed Klein said that, when did you tell David Limbaugh he was being too inflammatory?

Or better yet, why did you condemn the left for saying X but not the right when they said Y?

I got the feeling she was gobsmacked (to borrow a British term) by Malkin’s venom and she was trying not to get riled. But I also think this is where liberals being on Fox payroll compromises you no matter what. Kohn probably couldn’t or wouldn’t want to say anything that would suggest Fox was being unprofessional or hypocritical. And, since Hannity is a big cheese at Fox and Malkin is a fellow contributor, Kohn had to be careful not to look like she was shooting inside the tent, as Ailes says.

Still, that was no excuse not to have examples ready. Either she was so floored that she couldn’t think of a one – and there’s really no excuse for that coming from a supposedly professional pundit who knew what kind of argument she was walking into and from people who are nothing if not consistent – or she pulled her punches. And there’s no excuse for that, either.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.