The double standard treatment in the so-called 'librul' media

Another Universal creator, liberal editorial cartoonist Ted Rall, also satirized some 9/11 widows in a 2002 drawing -- but, in his case, was hurt financially. Rall, who called Coulter's comments "a lot meaner" than his cartoon, noted that he lost WashingtonPost.com as a client.

And, in a Tuesday column linked on Rall's blog, Phil Reisman of The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y., discussed other fallout from that 2002 cartoon: "Rall was effectively roasted by the conservatives. For example, right-wing bloggers flooded Men's Health magazine, where his cartoon appeared, and he lost that outlet. His work used to appear frequently in the political cartoon section of The New York Times Week In Review, but that was stopped. In the end, Rall figures the backlash cost him $40,000 to $50,000 in business."

Reisman added that Coulter "is hardly being condemned by the more prominent righties like Sean Hannity. On the contrary, Hannity has promoted Coulter's book on his Web site. She's gotten a million dollars and counting in free publicity. Hannity, who once called Rall 'mean, cruel, and thoughtless,' evidently feels that Coulter by contrast is a deep thinker who fairly examines the facts and then delivers the truth as she sees it with tender loving care."

Coulter's controversial remark about Murtha came after she was asked to comment on the hawkish ex-Marine who now opposes the Iraq War. She said a person like Murtha is "the reason soldiers invented 'fragging'" -- a term describing soldiers killing their own officers.

The Universal columnist has also "joked" about killing other people, including Arabs, Muslims, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

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