This Isn't Patriotism

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-nunberg9sep09,0,2357442.story?coll=la-home-commentary

It's time for the GOP to stop treating its overt partisanship and blind loyalty as the only way to love America.

'WE WERE not Democrat or Republican on that horrible day. We were not liberal or conservative. We were Americans, by God!" As it happens, those sentences appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune on Sept. 13, 2001, but you could see the same thing everywhere you looked in the days and weeks after 9/11.

For a moment, it really did look as if everything was going to be different. "Sept. 11 made it safe for liberals to be patriots," George Packer wrote in the New York Times, as many of them found themselves hanging flags and making other unfamiliar gestures.

[struggle4progress]

1. Liberals don't hang flags?

"'Patriotic liberal' may not be an oxymoron, exactly ..."?

Nunberg specializes in analyzing the Cons' speech patterns, but apparently is not above using their tricks to bash liberals while pretending to call for bipartisanship ...

[The Sushi Bandit]

2. Sunday kick