When Being "Progressive" Means Being Dense

This is Think Progress' idea of cutting criticism.

1. Begin post as follows:

In his Thursday column, Philadelphia Daily News scribe Stu Bykofsky seemingly wished for the tragic death of 3000+ Americans when he wrote that “another 9/11 would help America.”

O.K., so Think Progress draws attention to Bykofsky's thoughts and provides a handy link to read them for oneself. Check.

2. Then criticize right wing blogs for drawing attention to Bykofsky's thoughts and providing a handy link to read them for oneself. Check.

Drudge gave the article a top row, center column link:

The bastard!

(Where exactly should Drudge's new content first show up? As a footnote under how to send him an email? Maybe as a comment in the HTML?)

3. Then, of course, criticize right-wing talk radio and Fox News for having the unmitigated gall to speak to Bykofsky. Check.

Yes, because we know personages making outlandish or provocative claims never get covered by left leaning media.

4. At no time will the actual ideas of Bykofsky be addressed in the slightest detail. Check.

Congratulations Think Progress, you consistently display all the intellectual honesty of a Soviet era show trial.

As an aside: What did Bykofsky write for which he should be, presumably, blacklisted?

ONE MONTH from The Anniversary, I'm thinking another 9/11 would help America.

What kind of a sick bastard would write such a thing?

A bastard so sick of how splintered we are politically - thanks mainly to our ineptitude in Iraq - that we have forgotten who the enemy is.

It is not Bush and it is not Hillary and it is not Daily Kos or Bill O'Reilly or Giuliani or Barack. It is global terrorists who use Islam to justify their hideous sins, including blowing up women and children.

Iraq has fractured the U.S. into jigsaw pieces of competing interests that encourage our enemies. We are deeply divided and division is weakness.

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America's fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater.

What would sew us back together?

Another 9/11 attack.

The Golden Gate Bridge. Mount Rushmore. Chicago's Wrigley Field. The Philadelphia subway system. The U.S. is a target-rich environment for al Qaeda.

Is there any doubt they are planning to hit us again?

If it is to be, then let it be. It will take another attack on the homeland to quell the chattering of chipmunks and to restore America's righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail.

The unity brought by such an attack sadly won't last forever.

The first 9/11 proved that.

I guess Think Progress doesn't like to be called a chipmunk.

UPDATE:

Go read this and you tell me if it doesn't sound like the DK believes Nixon started the Vietnam war.