Julianne Malveaux, a syndicated columnist and television talking head, may be the most . . . venomous pundit in the business. Perhaps you remember the charming comment she made in 1994 about Clarence Thomas: "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease."
Now she has struck again. On television the other weekend, she made a characteristically repellent observation: "There is no allegation that Monica Lewinsky was raped or coerced. . . . She has not come forward to complain. Something has been coerced out of her. The other woman who came out allegedly yet again -- and anything that Linda Tripp says I think you have to look through the filter of a ugly stick she's been beaten with -- there's something wrong with that woman, I'm serious."