Wow! William Kristol Defends the Honor of Liberals

Via the Daily Howler (Monday, June27):

KRISTOL: Look, what Karl Rove said, what outraged people is when he said, "Al Jazeera is broadcasting the words of Senator Durbin, certainly putting America's men and women in uniform in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals." He is saying—I mean, that is a very tough and I think inaccurate and—it's just a bad statement to make.

HUME: But that’s not what—

KRISTOL: I'm sorry, that is. “No more needs to be said—”

HUME: Of course it's not—

KRISTOL: Twenty percent—20 to 25 percent of the American people identify themselves as liberals. Are they not patriots, most of them? That is what Karl Rove is saying? “No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals?”

So if neocon William Kristol is defending liberals and Cheney is attacking conservative Chuck Hagel, things are really getting bizarre.