Joy Behar, one of the hosts of ABC-TV’s “The View”, announces that she’s delighted that Vice-President Cheney is “in trouble” and that his recent health scare, a potentially life-threatening blood clot in his leg, is due to his “lying.”

The studio audience cheers.

HBO’s Bill Maher, who was relegated to cable after being canned from ABC for praising the 9/11 hijackers as brave (and our military as cowardly), attempts to make the case that the world would be a better place had assassins successfully murdered Mr. Cheney in Afghanistan.

Nobody seems to mind.

Did you ever stop and wonder what some of these vicious, angry, bitter, mean-spirited liberals are like in real life?

I mean, surely someone loves Joy Behar. Bill Maher has to have some friends and family. These are people who undoubtedly have had loved ones sick or in trouble.

So why do they have a missing “decency gene” when it comes to Republican leaders?

I truly cannot begin to comprehend how a TV studio audience of a bunch of bored housewives could clap and hoot and holler for a loud-mouthed comedienne making fun of a sitting Vice-President’s health crisis.

It’s inconceivable to me that a man like Bill Maher can collect a big, fat paycheck while publicly pining for the murder of our commander-in-chief’s right-hand man while this great country is smack dab in the middle of a war.

Politics aside, I often wonder how these people can look themselves in the mirror.

On a purely personal level, I doubt that Joy Behar or Bill Maher have ever spent any one-on-one time with President Bush or Vice-President Cheney. I’ve been fortunate to do so, and it’s pretty obvious that these are decent, caring, compassionate men who want what’s best for the United States. After my nearly two-hour meeting with the President in the Oval Office, I walked away convinced that he spends practically every waking moment of his day trying to keep us safe from another terrorist attack. Cheney has spent a lifetime of distinguished public service to his country. Continued...