The Pundit is just one of those people who gets his rocks off by abusing others. He's hardly the first or the last of the breed and that sort of behaviour is fairly common and unsophisticated.

Settembrini was the character that really caught my attention on the thread however; the claim of being more righteous by refusing to stand up against such comments was simply bizarre.

It was one of those rare occassions I felt thoroughly justified in invoking Godwin's Law.