Left, or right?

So I get home after work, and turn on the telly to watch something, relax a bit. Not a good movie on, so I make the mistake of putting on politics and news.

Two big stories are in the ether right now: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the failed bomb in Times Square.

Right wing nuts have started to say that perhaps the radical left caused the spill by sabotaging the platform 30 miles offshore. How that could be done dosn't need to be explained or substatiated, because the purpose of that preposterous statement is to get people who are already extremely displeased with the President and the Democratic Party even more riled up (and if along the way some other people are caught in the net of bombastic stupidity, so much the better).

Now Michael Brown, who was head of FEMA during Hurricane Katrina, is being given air time: he is charging that either the Obama administration is allowing the oil to reach shore for political purposes, or is using the calamity of oil reaching shore to suspend offshore drilling and other policy points part of their strategy to pass cap-and-trade. And if that wasn't preposterous enough, he's charging the Administration with slow response. This is Brownie, who didn't respond to Katrina. Now he's charging that he couldn't respond becuase the federal government, the Bush administration, didn't give him the tools he needed to respond properly.

An arrest has been made in the failed Times Square bombing. The left is extolling the quick response of law enforcement authorities, the right is castigating the fact that the charged perpetrator has been read his Miranda rights. Major General Paul D. Eaton, retired, appeared with Keith Olbermann, and ripped Republicans for undermining the work of police, the FBI and the armed forces. I've not seen him before, but he was angry, and obviously not a rightie. He works for the National Security Network, a left organization: The National Security Network (NSN) was founded in June 2006 to revitalize America's national security policy, bringing cohesion and strategic focus to the progressive national security community.

Earlier, I watched a few minutes of Sean Hannity's show, and was amazed at the depths this twerp plumbs: he has a yahoo,  Aaron Klein, whohas co-authored this book: The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's ties to Communists, Socialists, and other anti-American extremists. Really. Hannity was ecstatic.Aaron Klein has written three other books: The late great state of Israel : how enemies within and without threaten the Jewish nation's survival (2009);  Schmoozing with terrorists : from Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists reveal their global plans-- (2007); this latest tome; and  Deion Sanders, this is Prime Time (1995). He writes for an outlet called World Net Daily (one of its banner ads is for a book entitled The Nazi connection to terrorism).

Time to turn it off, and go read. Oy.