I don’t know what else to call it.  When I see stories like these I have to wonder about the sanity of the people in them.

Starting with the King of the Liberal Nutroots, Kos.

DailyKos: Osama’s No More Evil than Reagan

Plenty of conservative bloggers have noticed the resemblance between some of the rhetoric in Osama bin Laden’s latest tape, and the comments on lefty blogs in the U.S. Arianna Huffington wrote that Bush had left bin Laden “free to offer kudos to Noam Chomsky and Michael Scheuer’s Imperial Hubris, and to fret over global warming and U.S. mortgage rates.” Apparently the irony of sharing talking points with the world’s most wanted terrorist was lost on her. But Frank J suggested that Osama and the left ought to pool their resources, and AllahPundit noted that bin Laden sounds like a socialist icon. Despite the commonality of the rhetoric, some on the left are understandably very angry about the comparison.

But not all, apparently. Over DailyKos, they’re wondering why people automatically dismiss Osama by saying he’s evil or crazy. Apparently, they think he’s neither crazy nor evil, or at least no more evil than say, Ronald Reagan.

bin Laden does not rail against the U.S. and other Western countries because they are “free,” because they are “modern,” because they are “Christian,” or even because they purport to be “secular” (though he asserts that Americans would be more happy if they were to adopt Islam). He rails against them because of specific U.S. (and allied) policies–military, political, and economic–that he and his followers believe harm ordinary people in the Islamic World.

Bin Laden uses the imagery and vocabulary of Islam in making his points to his Arab and Islamic audience, much as George W. Bush, Joseph Lieberman, John Edwards, or Bill O’Reilly will use the imagery and vocabulary of the Judeo-Christian tradition to make points to their audiences. But bin Laden is not a raving religious fanatic. He is fundamentally a political revolutionary with a strong sense of suffered injustice, a sense which is shared by much of his audience and which he can therefore effectively manipulate for his political aims.

He seems to forget all the previous video were OBL vowed death to America and was a proponent of conversion by the sword.  I don’t think that equates to “Americans would be more happy if they were to adopt Islam” unless we would be happy we are alive.

So is Osama bin Laden truly “evil?” Most people who lost family members at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 would probably consider him to be evil.

Evil is as evil does.

Was President Ronald Reagan evil? Most residents of Beirut who lost family members when the USS New Jersey rained 2,700 pound Mark 7 shells on residential neighborhoods in 1983 during the Lebanese Civil War probably considered Reagan to have been evil. Bottom line? Bin Laden is no more evil than other revolutionary leaders in other times or even than ordinary national leaders who propel their countries to war for “national honor,” or to acquire the resources of others, or even to “do good.”

I admit that collateral damage in attacks means that some innocents are affected, but to equate Reagan with a man who deliberately and with malice plan and execute a deliberate large scale attack on a civilian structure with a man who has to accept that in a fight with military targets, some civilians were hurt or killed.

Does he forget AQ’s favorite tactic, the car bomb and or suicide bombers?  Which AQ and it’s allies routine and deliberately target to civilian areas.

It is clear to most rational people that there is a severe difference between that accidental civilian deaths.  I will accept the guilt my country has earned for the civilians it has accidentally killed, but the liberals need to distinguish between accidents and cold blooded heinous evil.

Keith Olbermann continues his diversions from reality as well.

Chalk up another in a litany of absurd statements made by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.

As part of an interview published in Playboy magazine’s October issue, Olbermann actually said, “Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda.”

I kid you not.

The entire disgraceful quote, offered as a teaser for the full interview at Playboy’s website (be advised that pictures of scantily clad women exist on the page as well), was as follows (h/t Inside Cable News via Johnny Dollar):

Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.

Yes, I can see that, how a media arm that relies on the truth in its news and in its commentary takes a conservative stance might be a threat to the liars in the MSM, not to mention Olbermann himself.

I’m sure OBL agree with that too.

But by far the wackiest attempt at lunacy was clearly won by those cut ups at MoveOn.Org.

Moveon.org Calls Petraeus a Traitor

Just posted at THE DAILY STANDARD from Vets for Freedom executive director Pete Hegseth:

Tomorrow–as General David Petraeus provides his Iraq assessment to Congress–the antiwar group MoveOn.org is running a full-page advertisement in the New York Times under the headline: “General Petraeus or General Betray us? Cooking the books for the White House.”

Obviously they teamed up with Miss Cleo to be able to know all that prior to hearing his testimony.

Let’s be clear: MoveOn.org is suggesting that General Petraeus has ‘betrayed’ his country. This is disgusting. To attack as a traitor an American general commanding forces in war because his ‘on the ground’ experience does not align with MoveOn.org’s political objectives is utterly shameful. It shows contempt for America’s military leadership, as well as for the troops who have confidence in him, as our fellow soldiers in Iraq certainly do.

And that is the irony.  For months I have heard complaints that conservatives have unfairly painted anti war believers as unpatriotic.  How you can support peace and be a patriot.

And you know what?  In principle I agree.  I think patriotism is proven by action.

And by the use of this ad campaign MoveOn.Org has shown they are not patriots.

Patriots place the good of the country first.  MO.O places the good of the Democrats first.

Congrats Democrats, your most staunch ally once again displays its ugly reality, and proves who the real enemy of America is.

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