The Treason of Alan Keyes

Alan Keyes has always been a wing nut, but he is dabbling in treasonous rhetoric in this interview. He drags out the most popular lie about the president: that Obama is not a US citizen (a silly notion that has been disproved with the online posting of Obama's birth certificate). He says that Obama must be stopped, even though the President was elected by a comfortable majority. But worse is his suggestion that the military should not follow Obama's orders. That's treason, in my book.

It is getting harder and harder to ignore the hateful rhetoric of the right, and I fear that somebody is going to get seriously hurt as a result. Obama appears to be ignoring the rabble (his warnings not to listen to Rush Limbaugh notwithstanding). But I hear little condemnation of this kind of behavior on either side. The Republicans should denounce such hate speech, but they far angering talking heads with a bully pulpit. But where are the Democrats? Rush et al already hate them, so they don't risk anything by denouncing the hate speech. And what about newspapers? The New York Times Opinion page has been silent on the topic. The only denouncements have come from the blogosphere, which is pretty partisan to begin with.