Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

As for Fox News' John Gibson -- now there is something different entirely. In John Gibson, we find the quintessential anti-patriot. Part Benedict Arnold, part Tokyo Rose, his is a media voice which, presumably much like the organization that surrounds him, holds a profound and venomous hatred of true America, the history, the words and deeds of the country, the voices that fill it, the population that, from the great heights of his own ego and self-promotion, must look merely like ants swarming on his owned and chosen land. It is a land where his own interpretation of religion is, alledgely, under constant assault by the personal religions of all others. It is a land where his own interpretation of political advantage is pure, and that of millions of others not only dismissible, but condemnable.  For John Gibson, spokesman of the Fox News monument of yellow journalism, an obelisk made entirely of cash and still-warm faxes, even the birth of Christ itself is a hollow charade, compared to the sure glory of momentary and venomous self-promotion.

Ignoring the Treason Talk could only remotely be considered an option (and not a very smart one at that, c.f. the original swiftboating episode) if it were only emanating from the Gibsons and the Malkins and the Hewitts, but given that it has spread to the no less braindead but supposedly less partisan folks such as Tweety Matthews, it is ever more clear that it needs to be immediately and forcefully nipped in the bud.  John Kerry's direct rebuttal of Matthews is a start, but leading Democrats and progressives need to make clear loudly and vociferously:  treason talk is unacceptable.  You call us traitors, you are declaring civil war.

And let's go one easy step further:  the real traitors, as Hunter notes, are those who sacrifice this country's core values to pursue dangerous military fantasies and, in particular, who use the office of the presidency to violate the very constitution they have sworn to uphold (or their bully media pulpits to support such anti-American activities).  Sure, we'll hear a lot of talk about the "angry left" and the "angry activist left," even from our supposed DLC-er allies, but we hear that anyway don't we?

Just one final note: isn't it interesting that the Treason Talk seems to be ramping up yet again just as we are getting ready for another election season?   And just as Unka Karl is giving speeches about how they will use the WarrenTerra as their central strategy yet again?  Is their any doubt that Mr. Bin-Laden and Mr. Rove have core interests in common?

-- Stu