LAST WEEK, THE INTERNET OUTRAGE MACHINE ATE ITSELF: “The fact that Gawker was seen as acceptable in polite liberal society until now says a lot about the climate on the cultural left,” Cathy Young writes at Real Clear Politics on “Gawker & the Left’s Selective Outrage:”

So why do people like [recently fired ex-staffer Adam Weinstein] think those were the good days when Gawker was a “special” place to work?

The obvious answer is: for the left, Gawker was “our son of a bitch.”

Read the whole thing.