An Odd Complaint

By James Taranto
Wall Street Journal
November 3, 2006

MediaMatters.org gets money from George Soros and is run by David Brock, the former right-wing hatchet man who had an epiphany and turned into a left-wing hatchet man. The site bitches constantly about news coverage that isn't slanted in favor of Democrats or the liberal left. So we are puzzled by this complaint that appeared Wednesday:

Broadcast networks all led with Kerry's "botched joke," entirely ignored Bush's statement that a Democratic victory means "terrorists win and America loses"

So they want the media to point out that if the Democrats win, the terrorists will have won? Go figure. Maybe the MediaMutters guys will be happy if the nets pick up on this story from WorldNetDaily:

Senior terrorist leaders interviewed by WND . . . say they hope Americans sweep the Democrats into power because of the party's position on withdrawing from Iraq, a move, as they see it, that ensures victory for the worldwide Islamic resistance.

The terrorists told WorldNetDaily an electoral win for the Democrats would prove to them Americans are "tired." . . .

"Of course Americans should vote Democrat," Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group and the infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, told WND.

"This is why American Muslims will support the Democrats, because there is an atmosphere in America that encourages those who want to withdraw from Iraq. It is time that the American people support those who want to take them out of this Iraqi mud," said Jaara, speaking to WND from exile in Ireland, where he was sent as part of an internationally brokered deal that ended the church siege.

How much do you want to bet we don't get any credit from the MediaMutters guys for pointing this out?