Editor's note: A version of this opinion piece appeared on the Media Research Center's NewsBusters blog.
Imagine for a moment a Fox News host calling one of the liberal Supreme Court justices such as Sonia Sotomayor a "troll."
Liberal heads would explode across the fruited plain including in newsrooms from sea to shining sea.
With that as pretext, check out what MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Comedy Central's Daily Show Thursday:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/03/01/rachel-maddow-calls-scalia-troll-like-blogger-using-n-word/