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The truth is, the 'liberal' columnist for Time can't stand liberals. Why?

1. Because we were right about Iraq. Shame on us!
   
2. Because we're right about defending the Constitution from illegal, warrantless domestic spying and because the American people support this position. That's right, illegal, as in the Preznit committed a crime, disregarded the "rule of law" that was soooooooo important when Clinton was President.

Klein concludes, "For too many liberals, all secret intelligence activities are 'fruit,' and bitter fruit at that. The government is presumed guilty of illegal electronic eavesdropping until proven innocent. This sort of civil-liberties fetishism is a hangover from the Vietnam era." But what Klein mocks as fetishism and a Vietnam hangover is the law of the land, according to fourteen scholars of constitutional law and former government officials who wrote to Congress that "the program appears on its face to violate existing law." The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service also reported that it is "unlikely that a court would hold that Congress has expressly or impliedly authorized the NSA electronic surveillance operations," and added that the Bush/Klein argument "does not seem to be...well-grounded."

So here, apparently, is the punditocracy argument in a nutshell: Never mind that liberals are constitutionally correct. Never mind that their view is supported by a majority of Americans. And never mind that the Bush Administration has repeatedly lied to the American people on exactly these issues. Never mind, most of all, the truth.

The liberal columnist thinks civil liberties are a fetish. How quaint.

(Alterman article via atrios)

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