Friday, May 11, 2007

Today's Hoot!

Jonah Goldberg on Jihadi Chic:
At the annual Cairo antiwar conference in Egypt, the hot panel discussion this year was “Bridge-Building Between the Left and Islam.” John Rees, a British Trotskyite, observed: “Where else can you sit down in a single evening and listen to senior people from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, people from the revolutionary left and the antiwar movement from around the globe?”

Gosh, it sounds great. I’m just sorry I missed the rollicking game of Pictionary between the Castroites and the jihadis afterwards.
Now the Leftoids have always been willing to jump in the sack with just about anyone in the hopes of gaining power (see Hitler-Stalin pact), but doesn't swapping spit with Islamic terrorists put a crimp in all the gay and women's lib rhetoric? Apparently not.

There's more fun in the full article including:
Now, it’s way too early to start talking about the “Taliban wing of the Democratic party” or anything like that, but this is a fascinating and largely ignored phenomenon.
Heck, I thought that "Leader of the Democrat Taliban Wing" was Nancy Pelosi's job title!