Michelle Malkin points out that leftists are just fine with hateful racism, especially from fellow leftists. The trick, it appears, is to pretend you're a conservative while spewing any hateful filth that pops into your head. That way you're not really a racist, you're just making fun of conservatives.

It's not the outrage that's manufactured, but Colbert's sanctimonious myth of left-wing purity and his phony indictment of conservatives as the predominant forces of intolerance in America.