How Conservatives Treat Their Adversaries

Note the grace with which one of Peter Jenning's staunchest critics notes his passing:

Sure Jennings drove many conservatives nuts, not just because he was Canadian and couldn't pronounce "about." One remembers well his covering for Bill Clinton and, in his earlier years, the pro-PLO slant he legitimated in reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

But this was also the same Jennings who was easily friendly with many conservatives and even went to bat for them behind the scenes. His former colleagues remember him as a stern taskmaster and hard worker, and there's no reason not to take them at their word. It's only when deciding what it all meant that they fall into difficulty. For them it's not enough to find comfort in the steady job he did in his daily work. Television is artifice. Jennings imbued it with more meaning than it warrants. No wonder so many already miss the pleasure of his company.

What's more, this has been typical of conservative commentary on Jennings' death.

Think Rush Limbaugh will get similar gentlemanly treatment from the Kos crowd or the LWM when he shuffles off this mortal coil?