The Pro-Cancer Left

Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, on whose show we've appeared several times, has just had surgery for breast cancer. We wish her the best. So does Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the former North Carolina senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee, who herself has been suffering from breast cancer. Mrs. Edwards is an occasional contributor to the Angry Left Web site DemocraticUnderground.com, where she posted on a thread about Ingraham's ailment:

I have been a Democrat for a long time, and part of the Democratic principles that attracted me as a young person and kept me a Democrat all these years is our compassion. Democrats are simply good and decent people. And good and decent people want everyone to do well--those who agree with them and those who do not. We fight for the right of voices with which we disagree to speak out, for the right of people to say things we don't believe to be true, even for the right to be malicious and mean-spirited. If we fight for the right for LI to say what she says, how in the world can we use our disagreement with those words as an excuse not to be compassionate in her fight with cancer. Being willing to have her voice muted by illness is the same thing as not wanting her voice to be heard. It is not Democratic or democratic.

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But as blogress Michelle Malkin points out, not all DU denizens are as charitable. "She Probably Gave it to Herself," says one, with "All that Hate, Lies, Anger." Another: "I don't pray for Nazis or other Totalitarian Scum." Malkin quotes a third, which includes an obscenity, but it has now been deleted, as have at least 17 others in the thread. Who says conservatives are mean-spirited? A Slide for Soar Eyes "Oil Prices Slide More Than $2.50 a Barrel"--headline, Associated Press, April 27, 3:25 p.m. EDT "Bush Lays Out Energy Plan As Prices Soar"--headline, Associated Press, April 27, 5 p.m. EDT Leno's Job Is Safe "First Lady Rules Out Run on 'Tonight Show' "--headline, CNN.com, April 27 Euphemism Watch "We're not firing anybody. This is a reduction in force that required some people to lose their jobs."--Larry Jones, interim executive director of the Durham, N.C., Housing Authority, describing a plan to terminate between 16 and 27 employees, quoted in the News & Observer, April 27 You Don't Say "Court TV Argues for Cameras in Court"--headline, Associated Press, April 27 A Belated Concern for Product Safety "Ukrainians Recall Chernobyl"--headline, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, April 27 You Know You've Chosen the Wrong Career When . . . "Burglar With Conscience Returns Items"--headline, Associated Press, April 28 Life Imitates Art O! too much folly is it, well I wot, To hazard all our lives in one small boat! If I to-day die not with Frenchmen's rage, To-morrow I shall die with mickle age: By me they nothing gain an if I stay; 'Tis but the short'ning of my life one day --"Henry VI, Part I," Act IV, Scene 6 "Shakespeare Dies After Getting Blown Off Boat" --headline, FoxSports.com, April 27 Weasel Watch "A Greek island suffering under the heel of a brutal invasion could be the first mission for a yet untried regiment of German Special Forces," reports Deutsche Welle, the German radio network: The inhabitants of the island of Lemnos, which has been under siege for some time, are considering sending out a distress call for the crack German troops in a bid to end the occupation which is threatening their livelihoods. In an operation which could well be code-named "Kill Bugs," German weasels could be flown in to rid the island of a plague of wild rabbits. "There are thousands of them," Lemnos deputy prefect Thodoris Baveas told AFP recently. "Just by driving at night you can hit a couple each time, there's that many." . . . Enter the Weasel Squad . . . or at least this is where they would enter if they weren't just so expensive to hire. "I've heard that each one costs about 4,400 euros ($5706)," Baveas sighed. "We would need at least 10 weasels," he dejectedly added. Unconfirmed rumors of shady deals involving less well-trained but equally ruthless Austrian mercenary weasels were allegedly circulating in some desperate corners of Lemnos. Where were these weasels when Jimmy Carter needed them? (Carol Muller helps compile Best of the Web Today. Thanks to Michael Segal, Arnold Schulberg, Chris Costello, Jeremiah James, Ewa Kubalska, Andy Hefty, Jim Poje, Darin Hauser, Mark Murray, Jim Bryan, Nathan Whitlock, Nevet Basker, Dennis Powell, James Eggert, Mordecai Bobrowsky, John Vecchione and Buddy Smith. If you have a tip, write us at opinionjournal@wsj.com, and please include the URL.) Today on OpinionJournal: Review & Outlook: Who's afraid of John Bolton? Peggy Noonan: John Bolton is blunt where others would be self-protective. This is bad? Jill Stewart: Meet Los Angeles's Ted Hayes. He's black, dreadlocked--and Republican. Martha Bayles: Attacks on rap now come from within. E-MAIL THIS TO A FRIEND PRINT FRIENDLY FORMAT GET THIS VIA EMAIL HOME TOP OF PAGE BOOKMARK THIS SITE ARCHIVE PREVIOUS DAY SUBSCRIBE TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE OR TAKE A TOUR SIGN UP TODAY FOR FREE MARKETWATCH MEMBERSHIP Copyright © 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. RSS

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