Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin was among the many right-wingers Media Matters identified yesterday freaking out over the Phoenix Suns' announcement that they would wear special “Los Suns” jerseys for their May 5 game to honor Arizona's Latino population and protest the state's newly passed immigration law.

To hear Malkin tell it, this nod to Latinos was an affront to the “rule of law” and was serious enough to warrant a boycott of the team. But she also had other concerns: “Perhaps Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver should stop shoving politics down his ticket-buyers' throats, mind his own business -- and stop using our taxpayers dollars to keep him afloat.”

So Malkin wants to keep sports and politics separate. At least, she does when the political view being expressed differs from her own. Just a few months ago, Malkin was cheering on the injection of politics into sports, praising then-University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow for filming a Super Bowl ad for Focus on the Family to help promote the group's staunch anti-abortion rights message.

Malkin wrote on January 29:

Thank you, Tim Tebow and family, for exposing the appalling intolerance of the feminist Left and the abortion peddlers.

Thank you, for standing up and speaking out for what you believe in. And thank you, Focus on the Family, for spreading the Tebow family's message.

One would have to think that if the Suns had worn jerseys supporting, say, widespread civil rights violations against innocent Americans based solely on their ethnic background, then Malkin would have picked up some courtside seats.