The compassionate left

Andrew Sullivan announced today that he'll be taking an extended hiatus from day-to-day blogging. What did Wonkette have to say?

"And, out of the semi-blue, writer-cum-blogger Andrew Sullivan announces his retirement from blogging. This is a truly sad day for the ass-fucking community. If only we'd appreciated him while we had him! But... we just didn't."

Nice, huh? Imagine if this had been written by, say, Jonah Goldberg. Can you imagine the firestorm? Is this any less disgusting because a sensitive liberal posted it?