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Cross-posted from The Huffington Post . By now, you're likely familiar with the parade of racists, sexists, conspiracy theorists and hatemongers on the payrolls of mainstream media: CNN's Lou Dobbs advances the claims of unhinged birthers; FOX's Glenn Beck calls the president a racist ; MSNBC pays as an analyst Pat Buchanan, who says slavery was good for black folks . Not to be left behind, ABC welcomed to its This Week roundtable right-winger Michelle Malkin, who has referred to the first lady as President Obama's " cron[y] of color ," and is advancing the conspiracy theory that Democratic health-care reform is designed to euthanize old people . Bottom line: hate sells. Eager to bring eyeballs to its Web site, the Washington Post this week got in on the act , producing a video featuring two star columnists, Chris Cillizza (reportedly a nice guy) and Dana Milbank ( reportedly not ), that suggests at a future White House beer summit, Hillary Clinton be ser...

At the Washington Post Online today, Katha Pollitt has a devastating rebuttal to the absurd Charlotte Allen that ran in the paper's Sunday opinion section, "Outlook." Herewith a taste or two, to whet your appetite, mes amis : But back when the experts were explaining why women couldn't be lawyers or professors or poets (at least not very good poets), nobody said verbal skills and memory were trivial; they only became trivial when women were found to excel at them. Here's the money quote: What bothers Allen about this picture is that these women reject, with every fiber of their latte-loving beings, the abstinence-only, father-knows-best, slut-shaming crabbed misogyny of the Republican right. CLICK HERE TO READ ALL OF POLLITT'S 'DUMB AND DUMBER'