Elena Kagan and Ann Coulter Attacked For Physical Appearance

Here’s a neat juxtaposition. Media Matters details a laundry list of conservative figures who are making sport of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. For purposes of this demonstration, I’ll single out Human Events Editor-in-Chief Jason Mattera, who tweeted “Why do Janet Napolitano, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan all look like linebackers for the New York JETS?”

And in this corner, we have Countdown host Keith Olbermann, who finishes off an Ann Coulter “Worst Persons” award with an observation about Coulter’s left eye. Do you think Mattera and Olbermann ever thought they would share common ground?

Actually, this is nothing new for either of them. Olbermann has taken shots at Coulter’s looks before, and most of Mattera’s act consists of trading in gender-based insults. I just thought the synchronicity here was worth noting.

Some might argue a difference in the degree of provocation here, with Kagan at zero and Coulter at 11, but that’s not the point. In fact, Mattera obviously cares very little how anyone outside his narrow world feels about him. Olbermann is supposed to want to be better than this.

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