When you find yourself believing that everybody you disagree with politically must be evil, you find all sorts of ways to explain away the evidence that they’re not. Even if that evidence is as basic as him being an American, or a Christian.

Or you could accuse them of harboring a secret desire, carefully concealed from the American public, of using Iraq into a jumping-off point for an invasion of Iran.

You wouldn’t even need a hypothetical videotape of the man’s wife to do so; you could just assert it.

When you find yourself believing that everybody you disagree with politically must be evil, you find all sorts of ways to explain away the evidence that they’re not. Even if that evidence is as basic as him being an American, or a Christian.

It’s twisted rationalization based on immaturity as much as anything.

Incidentally, Capt. Ed (who I haven’t read since he left CQ) may have gone to the dark side, but give Jim Geraghty some credit. Between this and the Whitey think, he’s been appropriately resistant to those that want him to get on board the “Obama is a Communist Foreigner” bus.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

Remind me not to do that.

And I’d concur that it’s a Fox thing, by no means universal among Republicans, but Fox speaks rather effectively to a considerable portion of the Republican electorate.

Or is it just a FOX thing?