In the annals of mind-blowing hypocrisy, today's column by Markos Moulitsas goes down as one of the all time greats. Moulitsas writes of the Republican intraparty tussle in NY-23:

But Scozzafava failed the teabagger purity test by supporting abortion rights and gay marriage, and thus became the target of right-wing Doug Hoffman on the Conservative Party ballot line. [snip]

With Scozzafava's de facto ouster from the GOP, moderate Republicans are now included in the movement conservatives' enemies list, which already includes African-Americans, gays, immigrants, Latinos, single women, urbanites, non-Christians, Northeasterners, Hollywood, San Francisco, Chicago and Massachusetts.

Forget a “big tent”; a pup tent would likely be too spacious for what's left of the so-called Republican “coalition.”

Ultimately, whether Hoffman wins or loses is irrelevant — Democrats don't need the extra seat, and it'll likely be eliminated in post-census redistricting anyway. The tarring and feathering of Scozzafava is far more significant — emboldened conservative activists have their first trophy victory in their jihad against the Republican establishment, and are hungry to beat non-ideologue Republicans across the country.

Yes, this is the same guy who led the revolt against Joe Lieberman in 2006, going so far as to cut commercials for his left wing opponent in the hopes of enforcing "ideological purity" and running the Democrats' former VP pick out of the party.

And he's the same guy who wrote the book "Crashing the Gate" - a "how to" guide for progressives to revolt against the party establishment ("To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, the tree of a political party must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of reformers and insiders.").  It's a book that advocates more or less exactly what transpired in New York-23.

There are only two possible conclusions to draw: Markos is either too dumb to see the contradiction, or he's being patently hypocritical and hoping readers are too stupid to notice. For the record, I don't think Markos is dumb.

UPDATE: Incidentally, here is Moulitsas last night basically contradicting his Hill column again, saying that the lesson from last night is that Democrats need to be less conservative and more progressive to turn out their base.