{"id":4374,"date":"2011-05-02T23:18:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T06:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2011-05-02T23:23:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T06:23:02","slug":"judge-dreadful-andrew-napolitano-mourns-osama-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dreadful: Andrew Napolitano Mourns Osama Bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like Fox News may be able to call off their search for Glenn Beck’s replacement. If drooling delirium and glassy-eyed insanity is the criteria, then Judge Andrew Napolitano has the role sewn up. Today he opened his program<\/a> on Fox Business Network, Freedom Watch, saying…<\/p>\n

“Osama Bin Laden assassinated, killed on the illegal whim of the President.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right. Osama Bin Laden, a brutal commander of terrorists responsible for thousands of deaths, is finally found and dispatched, and Napolitano says that President Obama is the criminal. The only thing Napolitano needs to seal the deal is a blackboard tying George Soros and Van Jones into the operation as well. Napolitano continued…<\/p>\n

“Tonight on the docket Osama Bin Laden is dead and the President thinks he has a right to kill whomever he wants so long as the person is a monster and the people support it. Of course the attacks on 9\/11 were a horrific tragedy, but killing Osama Bin Laden is a symbol of all we’ve lost in this pointless war on terror and we can’t forget that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whomever he wants? Napolitano thinks that the President’s decision to target the mastermind of the 9\/11 attacks, who has been the subject of an international manhunt for ten years, is the same as a decision to kill anyone else with whom the President may have a beef. In Napolitano’s eyes there is nothing special about Bin Laden. Napolitano also believes that killing Bin Laden is “a symbol of all we’ve lost.”<\/em> What would allowing Bin Laden to live and continue to murder innocent people be a symbol of, Judge? And why are you taking Bin Laden’s side in this against your President?<\/p>\n

During the program Napolitano correctly criticized the Patriot Act, but conflated that unfortunate infringement of civil liberties with the mission to capture or kill Bin Laden. Despite the fact that the Bush administration exploited 9\/11 to pass the bill, it never had anything to do with protecting Americans from terrorism. It was a cynical power grab on the part of Bush and a majority Republican congress (although way too many Democrats voted for it as well). For Napolitano to bring it up in the debate over whether Bin Laden should have been killed makes about as much sense as Beck’s theory that Muslims and teachers unions are conspiring to bring Sharia law to Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

This must be Napolitano’s audition reel for Beck’s hour on Fox. And with delusional, fear-mongering material like this he could easily slip into the time slot without any of Beck’s addled fans noticing any difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like Fox News may be able to call off their search for Glenn Beck’s replacement. If drooling delirium and glassy-eyed insanity is the criteria, then Judge Andrew Napolitano has the role sewn up. Today he opened his program on Fox Business Network, Freedom Watch, saying… “Osama Bin Laden assassinated, killed on the illegal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[735,33,44,409],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-andrew-napolitano","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck","tag-osama-bin-laden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-18y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6373,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6373","url_meta":{"origin":4374,"position":0},"title":"Fox Business Network Cancels Entire Primetime Lineup","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/10\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The day after News Corp released their latest quarterly earnings report, they made another announcement that somehow was left out of the earnings conference call. 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