Charles Krauthammer Thinks It Is Wrong to Suggest Your Opponents Are Mentally Ill
Charles Krauthammer makes it too easy:
Since Cottle knows that the only way for her New Republic readers to understand Cheney is that he is evil — “next time you see Cheney behaving oddly, don’t automatically assume that he’s a bad man,” she advises — surely the generous thing for a liberal to do is write him off as simply nuts. In the wonderland of liberalism, Cottle is trying to make the case for Cheney by offering the insanity defense.
Sigh:
Charles Krauthammer, on FOX News Channel’s Special Report with Brit Hume, on May 26:
It looks as if Al Gore has gone off his lithium again.
Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) is a political epithet invented by American political columnist and former psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer in a satirical article to describe complaints raised against the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, and his administration, associates, affiliates and supporters, especially those who subscribe to conspiracy theories, or who allegedly oppose any initiative put forward by the Bush administration merely because Bush supports it. It is especially in use in the Blogosphere, and talk radio, as opposed to television commentary.
The term “Bush Derangement Syndrome” is usually applied as a derogatory term within the Blogosphere to imply that an opponent cannot be reasoned with or that complaints lack substance aside from anti-Bush hatred, due to the illogical connection to the charge.
When [Dean] avers, however, that “the most interesting” theory as to why the president is “suppressing” the Sept. 11 report is that Bush knew about Sept. 11 in advance, it’s time to check on thorazine supplies. When Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) first broached this idea before the 2002 primary election, it was considered so nutty it helped make her former representative McKinney. Today the Democratic presidential front-runner professes agnosticism as to whether the president of the United States was tipped off about 9/11 by the Saudis, and it goes unnoticed. The virus is spreading.
I can play the diagnosis game too: I diagnose Krauthammer with acute selective memory, and a dysfunctional honesty gland. At least he’s not straying from his Hypocritic Oath…
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