The Real Message of Haditha… It Was a Hoax And the Democrats Fell for It Willingly.

It must be a bear being part of the mainstream media these days.  Must also be a major problem for liberals, but then again that’s kind of a repetition, isn’t it?

The Gateway Pundit is running a brilliant piece today

Dan Riehl notes Harry Reid has really stepped in it again. Jules Crittenden, and Surber, too:

“Our troops are fighting and dying to bring to others the freedoms that many take for granted.” — Senate Plurality Leader Harry Reid,

If you want further proof of the linkage between the Jihadist Muslim wackos, and the wackos on the Democrat left, one need look no further than this recent WND article:

Muslim jihadist leaders interviewed for a new book were

(Shrug)

From the give credit where credit is due department, I should have mentioned that I thought Pelly did a fairly respectable job in interviewing Ahmadinejad. at least, I doubt any of the mainstream media could have done a great

James Joyner, this morning, points to a new Rasmussen poll. It documents specifically what I warned would happen when upon seeing the Petreaus ad from MoveOn, I said:

I think that the left has finally crossed that

NYC-(Fox) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday questioned why Iran can’t have a nuclear program when the United States has one, repeated his inference that historical accounts of the Holocaust are myths, and denied that there are homosexuals in Iran.In

An interesting article from Roger Kimball, today, in the New Criterion.

Here’s the take-away:

Here’s Bagehot from Chapter 2 of Physics and Politics, “The Use of Conflict”:

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a

Hume, last Friday: 

Liberal columnist Michael Kinsley says Republican indignation over the MoveOn.org ad calling General David Petraeus “General Betray Us” is — in his words — “mock outrage.”Kinsley writes in Time Magazine that the ad can be interpreted

From Little Green Footballs:

Sick, sick, sick. Before leaving Iran today, thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the American people want to hear different views about the world.

You know — antisemitic, Holocaust-denying, Islamic supremacist views. And sadly, he’s not wrong;

Am I the only one embarrassed by the dingbat brouhaha over Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s attempt to visit Ground Zero to lay a wreath?

No, Josh Marshall, the sad part is, I expect you’re not.

So what’s the problem exactly?

Says Boortz:

This one was for our BBC friends: Muslim dentist in the UK told a patient that she had to wear a headscarf in order to be treated.

The Jawa Report notes the same story and quotes the story

The Jerusalem Post–

 Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane’s Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian

Dennis Kucinich travels to Syria to trash President Bush and laud Basser Assad.   See the YouTube video.

Syria has built nuclear installations,  according to Ynet News:

Washington official says Israeli surveillance shows possible Syrian nuclear installation stocked by

The Boston Globe this morning reports:As fog shrouded the State House steps, Governor Deval Patrick led a solemn ceremony this morning to mark the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, calling the terrorist attacks of 2001 “a failure of human understanding.””We

I’ve spent the day, reading over some of the reaction to the testimony of General Petraeus, after listening to the testimony itself, once they figured out how to get the mikes working again.  (I’ll bet there hangs a tale.  )