You know, it really doesn’t surprise me, and yet it does.

Pat Tillman died roughly a year ago. At the time, the left wingers didn’t give two shits about his life, his actions on the battlefield, or anything else about him. Ted Rall wrote one of his most horrible things I have ever seen in my life, and you know what? Most of the bastards on the left just nodded their heads in agreement because deep down, they agreed.

And it didn’t really surprise me because the left has always been a bunch of raving bastards when it comes to the military. As long as it’s not Bill Clinton sending our troops into a meaningless war in Bosnia (meaningless for US interests) under the guidance of Wesley Clark, the left is okay with soldiers. As long as they’re putting women on the front lines, they’re okay with soldiers. As long as they’re turning the military into their own personal social petrie dish, they’re okay with soldiers. But when it’s a Republican President fighting a war against people whose only desire is to see us dead by the will of their god, then that’s a problem.

So Pat Tillman dies in battle. He turned down a multi-million dollar NFL contract to serve his country. The initial reports are that he’s killed in battle. The left pretty much ignores the story, but the ones that do bother to take the time to acknowledge his death do so in the manner of Ted Rall.

Then the story comes out. Tillman was probably killed by friendly fire and the military did something rather disgraceful and covered it up. Guess who suddenly cares about the hero Pat Tillman? That’s right! People like Stageleft, who didn’t even mention the name Tillman on his blog until the story came out that the story was a lie. When the story was that Tillman was a tragic hero, it didn’t make for good copy over on Moonbat Central. Now that it’s a bad story for the US, the story is a disgrace and must be addressed.

Amazing, isn’t it?

Nah, I don’t think so either. This same Stageleft never mentioned oil-for food. Now Democrats accuse the US of benefitting from the program, and guess who’s on the front line? Our good friend, Stageleft! Why, it’s almost a pattern, isn’t it? News isn’t news unless it’s bad for the US. Kinda enlightens you about his recent run-ins with the Koran-swirlie story. We must address the accusation, because it’s serious, regardless of the fact that the people who wrote it can’t verify its veracity.

And on and on and on.

But Stageleft doesn’t hate the US. Oh no. In fact, he mockingly defends himself in just about every single post with something like this:

The job of Amnesty International in regard to Guantanamo Bay is to ask and answer four very simple questions:

1. Are their human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay? Yes
2. Are they Documented? Yes
3. Is there torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay? Yes
4. Is it documented? Yes

— and report that to the world.

My job, and the job of other like minded bloggers, is to take those questions and those results, compare Guantanamo Bay to a 1930s Russian Gulag, and try and motivate some grass roots anger and disgust at the hypocritical Bush kabal, their apologists, and their defenders, who would tell the world “move along now, nothing to see here… no torture, no abuse, no prisoners being beaten or killed during interrogations here… move along now”…. we are, after all, the greatest nation on the face of the planet and ‘that’s not the way we do things here’ so shut the ƒµ(|{ up and move to France (or possibly Cannuckistan) you America hating, terrorist loving, pinko, commie, liberal faggot!!

Getting all this? If you defend Bush, you’re a redneck bigot. His words, not mine.

Isn’t it nice to see the tolerance on the left they always accuse the right of not having? I think the best thing that could happen for the world is if George W. Bush would stop being President. Tomorrow. Maybe, at that point, the ranting lunatics that compose the american (and canadian) left would do something they haven’t had to do in 4 years.

Come up with an idea. ANY idea.

The funniest thing about the Newsweek incident, the Kofi incidents, and the Pat Tillman story, is that none of it is made up. Until the story is bad for the US, it isn’t a story. Oh sure, my former friend from Canada will pound his chest triumphantly and say, “See? Instead of addressing the message, they’re only addressing the messenger.” Well, yeah. Because to me, the true story isn’t the same thing I’ve seen over and over again in the news media (you know, the same media that according to the Moonbat Patrol is keeping the truth from us), but the point at which it becomes a story.

Here’s a piece of free advice. When you write about a story, everything about it becomes part of the story. Your selection of it is one of those things, When you ignored Pat Tillman a year ago only to write about him today to score political points, that’s a story. When you ignored oil for food until Democrats made some accusations and the raving anti-semite George Galloway sweated out some testimony on Capitol Hill, that’s a story.

I could give a damn about the content of what you write. If I want to know what you’re thinking, I’ll head over to DU and read it there. What I find interesting is the number of contortions the left, including my former friend Stageleft, will go through to turn something that wasn’t a story into a story when it suits their purpose.

That’s always a story.