Who Makes You Cringe?

[Originally posted at Army of Principles]

I think people doing Ann Coulter a disservice when they compare her to Michelle Malkin. Ann Coulter is an aggressively conservative pundit who occasionally makes rude, inflammatory, or even bigoted remarks to make a broader point. While I have often disagreed with exactly what she’s said (I get irritated every time she calls Obama “B. Hussein”), I have the impression that she’s a very smart and savvy individual. She’s not going to get elected to public office, but she’s entertaining and informative. She has a pulse on the conservative movement.

Michelle Malkin, on the other hand, has occasionally presented good conservative commentary. However, as as my post on her homeschool hysteria exemplifies, she often veers off into her own form of moonbattery. Her commenters are worse than her in many cases. For instance, she went off on Dunkin Donuts’ spokeswoman Rachael Ray for wearing a black-and-white scarf. Apparently it looked too much like a keffiyeh. Personally, it looked nothing like one to me. But at any rate, a checkerboard pattern is widely worn throughout the Middle East, no different than argyle being worn in Europe.

She imagined an anti-Danish slight from the silly United Nations (when there very clearly wasn’t one). In other news, that might be the first time I’ve ever taken the UN’s side on anything. She also gets up in arms over the lyrics of rap songs. No one’s making you listen to these songs, Mrs. Malkin. You can change the radio. Malkin also got huffy and offended over a set of government-created taxpayer-funded flash cards that listed three very real benefits to citizenship.

Malkin just makes me cringe. 

Question to commenters: Who on the right makes you cringe?