Why is it that libs so often support murderers like this guy? Are they aware that they hate America or hate life?
Because their lives are patterned on free-floating, feelgood morals (?), which they think are beyond such silly things as country and simply doing the right thing. It's an infinitely self-applauding position to live in a country but believe you are above such petty matters, and are really about HUMANITY. The liberal mentality is of an imaginary objectivity, where the liberal takes nothing personally, and can see the good in each person, especially if that good moves one to strike at the USA, which has sins in its past, so whatever it gets it deserves.
A liberal believes "everyone has his reasons," so we should stand back and allow everyone his or her say...as long, of course, that say ultimately supports the liberal's position. (Ask yourself how many supporters this guy would have if he kept quiet about the upcoming bombing of an abortion clinic. But keeping quiet about the attack from Al Qaeda that killed his interrogator? That's ok.)
Liberals are protected by the military, so they are free to say ANYTHING. The more outrageous, the more they are exercising their freedom of speech...even if what they say denigrates those people and institutions which ALLOW that freedom to exist.
They are like spoiled brats who rain invective down on their parents in public because they know their parents aren't going to throw them into the street--"I'm just a kid, you can't throw me out!" If those parents had enough and gave the brat the boot, such a kid wouldn't last five minutes in the real world. But he knows that will never happen, so he says and does what he likes.
Speaking up for this scum makes them feel like they are above petty partisanship, and at the same time, they are comforted by the knowledge that they'll never have to face his wrath due to the very people they are criticizing for imprisoning him.
The French have a term for it, "éparter le bourgeois".
That roughly translates to "(to) shock the middle class". What it means is for the Anointed to deliberately set out to do, say, write, create, champion, whatever something that will flip-the-bird at the despised middle class. IOW, deep down inside they fawn over this Johnny Jihad character for the simple reason:-- it outrages us, the bourgeois.