“One weakness of liberals is our inability to credit right-wingers with a sufficient degree of malevolence.” — Eric Alterman’s MSNBC.com blog, January 24.

“I love the defense of ‘I forgot’ and ‘Nobody ever asked me.’ Nobody never asked her if she has sexual relations with animals, either.” — Eric Alterman blogging on Maggie Gallagher, January 26.

Pray we never heard a word out of Eric Alterman’s mouth about the need for our politics to be more civil?