Pro-drug smuggler Democrats!!!

Briefly: two border patrolmen take shots at a fleeing drug smuggler -- they weren't truthful about it -- now they're serving over 10 years in prison. There are two issue going on here: 1) patrolmen protecting the country from drug smugglers and 2) lying about what they did. When comparing those two things, which would you say is more important? Most would say #1, but some Democratic/Liberal blogs seem to be rooting for the drug smuggler:

Some members of the public rail that the brave agents are in prison while the drug dealer they shot goes free. As Sutton noted, the reason the suspected dealer is free is because the agents shot at him 15 times, wounded him, then tried to cover up the incident and lied.

Yes, but remember, Republicans have no problem about lying about a crime in an effort to cover it up.

If there were a gameshow called "Let's Totally Miss the Point!", this guy would be the Ken Jennings of that show. There's a HUGE, HUUUGGGE difference between the corrupt Republicans who cheat and lie for their own benefit, and these two guys who were providing a needed service. Should they be punished for lying? Absolutely. Fire them from their jobs, put them on probation for 5 years, and make them pay a hefty fine.

While my common sense says it's wrong for the smuggler to go free, I realize that for our justice system to fully work, there has to be the utmost faith in our police force. They need to know that if they lie, justice won't be served. But there's no need to "take it out" on these guys.

O'Reilly and the Daily Kos really need to get a room.

Actually, this post is about John Aravosis at AmericaBlog, so maybe they should ALL get a room and have their gay threeway behind closed-doors.

In the latest chapter of Dumb vs. Dumber, Aravosis takes an isolated statement from O'Reilly's forum and uses it out of context:

"Maybe it's time to burn down the capitol building like Hitler did with the Reichstag building."

And how do jetBlue and Home Depot, big supporters of O'Reilly, feel about launching a terrorist attack against the US Capitol that would assassinate all 535 members of the US Congress?

The full quote is in response to that whole Keith Ellison thing where he compared Bush to Hitler. And the statement was meant to show how absurd the notion of comparing anyone to Hitler is. It's quite possible Aravosis realizes this, and is just playing a stupid, stupid game... but I'm not yet ready to give him too much credit.