Keith Olbermann responds to scurrilous lies told about him by Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin and turns their bile against them.
But strangely, when the terms “cold-blooded killers” and “mercenaries” were used in a public forum, my critics in the lunatic fringe, rather than even considering that the criticism even might be directed at the Pentagon or the administration or Blackwater-USA, immediately decided that these were descriptions of our American heroes fighting in Iraq.
It is perhaps instructive, that to the right-wing commentators, and the right-wing blogs, those terms should first evoke not the war-mongers of the Pentagon or the gun-men from Blackwater… but U.S. troops.
I cannot imagine that kind of evil knee-jerk reflex.
I feel very sorry for those who have shown it.
It seems to me that these right-wingers have inadvertently shown their true colors, their instinctive hatred of and contempt for, these self-sacrificing Americans, who have been needlessly placed in harm’s way by these very commentators and the politicians they support.
They hear criticism of our nation’s collective conduct in Iraq, and immediately assume it’s the fault of the soldiers.
In the wake of an insult that exists only in their minds and never in my words nor in my heart, there remains, I think, only one question to ask:
Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin: why do you hate our troops?
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