Jonah Goldberg writes:
Does anyone in their right mind think that Think Progress would be rallying to [Jill Carroll's] woman's side if she emerged from her captivity saying George W. Bush was right and the people who kidnapped her were terrorist animals? Please. They'd be prattling on about how she lost her mind.
Bullshit. Worse than that, obvious bullshit. If Carroll emerged a rightwing partisan, it's possible that the left would make a herculean effort to never mention her again, but there's zero chance a single liberal commentator this side of Counterpunch would ever question her sanity. As the right has. What's annoying about Jonah is that his writing shows enough obvious glimmers of intelligence, erudition, and political savvy that he's clearly aware his hypothesis above is bunk, but too dishonest to restrain himself from taking such an obvious cheap shot.