I've been reading Malkin for a long time because I considered her a decent source of information, even if she did seem a little too shrilly Republican.

But listen, her recent remark about the "libertarian fever swamp of the blogosphere" was just too much.  Her derisive, dismissive context was exactly the kind of tactic used so often by the mainstream media that she decries so often.  What sad irony that she doesn't even realize she has jumped the shark and become one of them.

Like the rest of the MSM, she attacks Ron Paul because he isn't one of the media darlings, and she has lumped everyone with a distrust of government into the lunatic fringe camp.  And as far as I know, she hasn't made a peep about the Guiliani/Fox News conflicts of interest.

I'll be honest.  I'm going to continue reading Malkin's blog regularly because I still value the information she distributes.  But for now at least, she's gone from my public blogroll.  I realize that this won't make a whit's difference in the grand scheme of things--I'm doing it anyway.

And just to make sure everyone knows where I stand, there's a new graphic at top right which will be linked to this post as soon as I post it and can see the permalink.  If anyone wants to snag it, feel free.  If anyone wants to take the idea and make a better graphic, feel free again.  I used the cottonmouth because it's a sort of swamp snake and I thought this picture had a nice Gadsden tone.