Elf Sternberg

Falwell said, as you mention, utterly despicable things; but after a news cycle's worth of flak, he was back in the mainstream: before he died in 2006, John McCain and Mitt Romney both sought his blessing in their pursuit of the Republican nomination. Robertson did suffer more.

Churchill is a great example: while he'd had ethics complaints directed at him in the past, nothing came of it until the remark you quoted was publicized, at which point he was promptly fired.

Coulter and Malkin, by contrast, still appear regularly on mainstream news networks. You didn't mention them in your reply...?

While I must admit Kos' statement and Belafonte's are indeed more extreme than what I recall of Michael Moore's, they still fall rather short of the other examples we're discussing.

The idea that Andrew Sullivan is on the left gave me my first genuine smile of the evening. Thank you.