Dissent is no longer patriotic, Revoistas. Joan Walsh says in this video clip the following…

The climate right now is that Republicans use everything they can to undermine and delegitimize this president. And it‘s actually un-American. It‘s traitorous, in my opinion. Do you want to give aid and comfort to our enemies? Continue to treat this president like he wasn‘t elected and he doesn‘t know what he‘s doing! He knows what he did. He knows what he‘s doing. I‘m proud of him. I believe that he has the stalwart, resolute nature to get this done…

Of course Joan, like all moonbats, is a purveyor of refined, weapons grade hypocrisy. Her column at Solon is a veritable shopping mall of attacks on the Bush Administration when they were in the White House. Here is a representative example from her column on September 9, 2006…

Since that time, though, we’ve seen hubris beyond imagination. We’ve watched an unbridled executive-branch power grab, warrantless wiretaps, the curtailing of privacy rights; a pervasive smog of secrecy descended to obscure our government. Outrage about torture, rendition and secret prisons here and abroad is dismissed with a flippant “We don’t torture” from the president. And all of it has been shellacked with an ugly culture of bullying in which dissent equals treason, shamelessly, five years after the attack. Last week it was Donald Rumsfeld comparing war critics to people who appeased Hitler; this week we had Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying they’re the sort who would have ended the Civil War early and let the South keep its slaves. Their intimidation is meant to say that the very freedoms worth fighting for — the right to dissent, the right to question our government — might have to be abridged while we fight. Politically, that truly is more than we can bear.

Her column overflows with this stuff. Not only does the ignorant scrunt attack Bush and company in the exact manner that she now says is traitorous, she goes on to reaffirm the ideal that the right to dissent is one of the “very freedoms worth fighting for.” She wasn’t exactly clear, however. Apparently dissent is a freedom worth fighting for only when dissenters agree with her.

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