[kabar]

My moonbat neighbor walking his dogs just told me he thinks this is all a neocon ploy to scare people to vote for republicans in November.

This has now become the netblog/Daily Kos party line. Callers to C-SPAN this morning were already spouting it. When the C-SPAN moderator mentioned that this news came out of the UK, the response was that Blair was part of the plot. At least another half-dozen callers on the Dem line echoed this charge. We are really dealing with a lunatic fringe in this country.

[reformedliberal]

We have a client who gets all his news from NPR and CNN and Yahoo. He thinks any war is far in the future. He doesn't think there is any connection between Reuters, AP and what he consumes as *news*. He is intelligent, a compassionate liberal and even as he finds out various bitter truths in the leftwing *community*, he denies that it means anything or can be extrapolated beyond one person or, at most, two.

I wouldn't characterize him as a moonbat, but he is indicative of how otherwise intelligent people can be duped by the concerted media barrage.