OKAY, ORDINARILY I’D LEAVE IT TO ANDREW SULLIVAN to point up the viciousness of this column on Pim Fortuyn by Michaelangelo Signorile. But I want to point out this sentence:

In much of Northern Europe, where homosexuality has been far more accepted for far longer and has been met with little political resistance, you can even be gay and be a right-wing fascist (just like Ernst Rohm, Hitler’s SA chief in the Nazi Party, was).

So Pim Fortuyn, you see, is just like Ernst Rohm — just another murdered Nazi, no loss to anyone. And you know those Nazis — famously tolerant of homosexuality. Why they gave gay people special symbols to wear, to show how treasured they were.

Signorile says that the Wall Street Journal and the National Review are only talking about Fortuyn because they want to stage mass deportations of Muslims. Yeah, that must be it. It couldn’t be that they were upset at seeing him tarred as a virtual Nazi, by people who couldn’t bear a threat to the hermetic little political universe they had created and who thus decreed that anyone who fails to toe the line must be caricatured as the extremist. It couldn’t be that.

UPDATE: Apparently the Dutch voters don’t think Fortuyn was a Nazi.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Media Minded administers a thorough Fisking of Signorile’s piece.