2007: A Loony-Left Year

Speaking of wacky comparisons between Americans and murderous tyrants, a man named Peter Mehlman, a former Washington Post sports reporters and "Seinfeld" script writer, took to the leftist Huffington Post blog to argue that Adolf Hitler was morally superior to President Bush. He said the president came into office by rejecting any notion of the public good, seeking only the good of his rich friends. By contrast, "You could argue that even the world's fascist dictators at least meant well. They honestly thought (they) were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading neighbors, et cetera."

On HBO, Bill Maher was upset that his friend Arianna Huffington removed commenters on that blog of hers who were lamenting that an attempt on Vice President Cheney's life in Afghanistan was foiled. "I'm just saying that if he did die, other people, more people, would live. That's a fact."

Left-wing lunacy was pretty common in 2007. Rosie O'Donnell talked her way off ABC's "The View" by spewing "655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?" Rosie had company on that set. Her co-host Joy Behar seriously claimed that Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson's brain hemorrhage could be a Republican conspiracy: "Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? ... I know what this party is capable of."

But at least there were still Democrats who made the media elite's hearts pitter-patter with delight. MSNBC's Chris Matthews stood out for hailing Barack Obama since he "sounds like Bobby Kennedy. It sounds like the '60s at its absolute best." After watching the funeral of Coretta Scott King, Matthews was even more over the moon at Bill Clinton's performance: "There are times when he sounds like Jesus in the temple." CBS morning anchor Harry Smith was so eager to press Al Gore into running for president that he held a "Gore for President" button in front of Gore's jacket after an interview and waxed, "Save that in a freeze frame." The elections in 2008 might look like a toss-up, but there remains absolutely no doubt which corner of the boxing ring the media elite have chosen.