MAYBE IT'S JUST ME [Jonah Goldberg]
But Jill Carroll is increasingly starting to bug me. The details are still murky and it's hard to appreciate what she's been through. And maybe JPod's right about Stockholm syndrome. And maybe the media's selectively choosing what to show of her statements. But it would be nice to hear her say something remotely critical of her captors, particularly about the fact that they murdered her translator in cold blood. I'm very glad she's alive, but I'm getting a very bad vibe. More, no doubt, to come.
I can assure you, Jonah, that it's not just you. In fact, many of your friends in the right-wing blogosphere are experiencing those bad vibes too. They're just more vicious about it than you are.
You know what would really be nice to hear? That you and your right-wing playmates have backed off Carroll and have given her a chance to recoup to the point where she's able to tell her complete story without assuming that she's somehow an enemy of the United States because she hasn't said what you wanted her to. But, no, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
More from Goldberg:
UNTHINK PROGRESS [Jonah Goldberg]No, Jonah. We on the left actually know that the people who kidnapped her were terrorists while some of your buddies on the right are claiming that Jill Carroll is a terrorist.
I love this. The intrepid folks at Think Progress write:
"Apparently, Jonah Goldberg, who has spent the last 82 days in safety, knows what Jill Carroll should be saying better than Jill Carroll herself. And when she doesn'’t say it, it means something is very wrong with her."
Is it really so crazy to think that someone who hasn't spent the last 82 days in captivity by Islamic kidnappers might be thinking more clearly than someone who has? Is it so absurd to think that maybe someone who had their senses about them and their moral center in good order, would be less thankful about her treatment and more upset that the translator she asked to come with her was murdered while working for her? I understand that the logic of the left cannot escape the orbit of "you wouldn't understand" identity politics. But come on. Does anyone in their right mind think that Think Progress would be rallying to this 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.
left= reality-based
right= not so much
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