Imagine for a minute that you're the editorial board at the Virginia-Pilot, a newspaper in Norfolk, VA. You think that one of the columns you run is “too stridently anti-liberal”. So what do you do?

You drop the column, of course. And which columnist is so evil that the newspaper would resort to such measures? Why, none other than Michelle Malkin, one of my favorite daily reads, despite the fact that she never returns my emails  :(

From an article in Editor and Publisher:

Another editorial writer, Bronwyn Lance Chester, said: “I think she habitually mistakes shrill for thought-provoking and substitutes screaming for discussion. She’s an Asian Ann Coulter. I also think that, like Coulter, she says outrageous things just to get TV appearances and book deals. She’s the worst of what’s wrong with punditry today. She adds absolutely nothing to genuine political discourse.”

He obviously hasn't been reading her column. She adds much to the politicical discourse on topics ranging from illegal immigration to racism from the left.

And excuse me, but while we're on the topic, what exactly does the fact that she's Asian have to do with anything? “She's another Ann Coulter” would have made the point. What if I were to describe Richard Pryor as a black George Carlin? Sounds sort of condescending, doesn't it? It almost sounds like, “Richard Pryor would be just as funny as George Carlin, if he were only white“, as if Richard Pryor's skin color somehow had any bearing on how funny he was. Mr. Chester probably thought the recent rash of cartoons aimed at Dr. Rice were funny, too. Odd how liberals are so conscious of race these days.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into Mr. Chester's comments, but I'm certainly taken aback by them, I can only imagine what Michelle will have to say about this. Speaking of her thoughts on the matter, she has yet to make them public. As soon as I find her response, I will post an update.

UPDATE: Michelle weighs in, and David Limbaugh comes to the same conclusion I did.