A little while ago, over at Boker Tov, Boulder, a commenter scoffed at my assertion that I don't believe that Arianne Huffington's 360 degree conversion from "conservative" to "liberal" was 100% genuine.  Mostly because she has people like Deepak Chopra writing "liberal" articles that are just plain brain-pudding-by-products meant to sound generically and blandly "spiritual", while meeting the primary criteria of slamming science.

Now, Anne Lieberman waxes incredulous (as if this is the first that she has ever heard anything remotely to indicate that there is a somewhat less-than-lefty influence at the HuffPo).

I'd comment directly on the post, but she's shut off the comments section to her blog.  (It wasn't my fault, honest, it was some lady who thought it was weird that Anne quoted Robert Novak in a pro-Jewish blog.  The lady referenced a general perception of Novak's apparent anti-sematism by calling him an "ex-Jew".  Also, there was the fact that some inarticulate anarchist called her a "moron".  I suggested that she not let mentally ill people get her down, but she closed down the comments anyway.  *shrug* for someone advocating the eradication of an entire religion, she sure has thin skin.  I really did think she had some chops...oh well.)

Anyway, here is Ann's post about the topic.

My favorite quote from her excerpt of the HuffPo article:

If you talk about tolerance constantly - and hilariously tolerate genocide and suicide bombers because those actions undermine your more intimate opposition, the American right - then you're a patriotic terrorist.

The only difference between a patriotic terrorist and a real one? Real terrorists are simply patriotic terrorists who've taken the extra step - choosing to actually die for their beliefs - rather than simply talking about them ....

Once again, the old canard of "if you support due process, you are on the side of the terrorists".

I guess Senator Stevens is "on the side of the terrorists" now...seeing as how he didn't like having his wife tagged as one and treated as such due to the appearance of her name on a do-not-fly list.

Or maybe it's only injustice when it happens to White Republicans.

Too bad they figured it out so soon.  I would have been interested to see his argument as to why his wife didn't deserve to have a bag thrown over her head and be whisked off to some third-world country and tortured.  It might look suspiciously like "patriotic terrorism".

[Retraction:  Anne says that she does not advocate the eradication of any religion.  I was careless in attributing that sentiment to her, rather than expressing that it was the impression I got from her blog.]