[LibFreeOrDie]

I love the smell of leftists attacking each other in the morning!

[Eagles6]

It is fun watching them eat each other.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Except Gore isn’t a “Leftist”, he’s a rank opportunist, something which Cockburn, dyed crimson in the wool, senses immediately.

Cockburn, say what you will, is funny when he wants to be. As far as I can tell he invented the word “factoid” [A fact-like object] to describe New York papers reporting on the murder of a fashion model by her gangster boyfriend in the late 1970’s. It was one of those “too good to fact check” stories that oozed sensationalism. Even the (then) normally staid New York Times got in on it.

Cockburn’s leftism is of the dyspeptic and misanthropic sort. In my experience misanthropes have done the World far more good than humanitarians, far, far less harm. Why not a Nobel Prize for Misanthropy?