Folks, I am an eager beaver when it comes to heaping praise upon praise upon praise on liberals.

Not Leftists.

Liberals.

For anyone who thinks I'm nuts listen to Dennis Prager; the genius will tell you the same thing.

Thomas Friedman is a liberal: a good old fashioned, left of center, reasonable, thoughtful liberal.

Do I disagree with him about a whole host of issues?  You betcha, as Sarah Palin would charmingly say.

But I know he loves his country, doesn't always blame us first, wants genuinely to lift up not only his fellow Americans but also those around the world, particularly those stuck in the Middle East debacle.  He is a decent and honorable man.

He wrote a column printed in yesterday's New York Times (shocking, I know) called "Calling All Pakistanis."

READ IT.

He asks WHY Muslims around Pakistan, and the world for that matter, are SILENT, not quiet, but SILENT, when it comes to their fellow Muslims murdering innocents all around them...but will protest for months about a Danish cartoon about someone who has been dead for centuries (Mohammad).

He wonders WHY a RUMOR printed in Newsweek about Korans being flushed down the toilet at Gitmo (totally untrue, incidentally and they admitted it to their credit) cause riots, stampedes and more but the Mumbai (it's Bombay) Massacre yielded not a single condemnation, protest or vigil from the masses.

And he suggests that perhaps terrorists KNOW that while a supermajority of Muslims would be unwilling to strap on the dynamite and shoot the rifles themselves, that they silently appreciate what they do each time they murder en mass.

WOW, folks.

WOW.

What an indictment.

From a LIBERAL.

In the NEW YORK TIMES.

THE NEW YORK TIMES!

Remember the New York Times, all?  The same paper that ran thirty some odd front page, above-the-fold stories about the abuses at Abu Gharaib? 

Remember the New York Times which used George W. Bush as a punching bag for eight straight years?

This is the same, failing, miserable newspaper that has gone out of its way to shame itself with everything from the Jason Blair incident to advocating unabashedly for Barack Obama.  They have no shame, the people at that paper.  The New York Times is, like virtually all of its peers in the Old Media, an arm of the National Democratic Party!

By printing Tom Friedman's column yesterday they may have gained back an ounce of much-needed credibility.

But getting back to my point...

I want to praise publically Thomas L. Friedman for his truthful, courageous analysis in yesterday's column.  He asked questions all thoughtful people ask.  I wonder if a head of state or two in the Muslim world paid any attention.

Good people around the world, faithful and unfaithful, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Atheist and more, are ALL wondering why most all Muslims insist on being silent, and therefore ultimately complicit, when it comes to fanatics murdering in the name of Allah.

It was a rivering work of art, that column.  Enrich yourself and read it. 

God bless this finest among nations.  It'll continue to stay the finest among nations if people both right and left of center think rationally and intellectually honestly about the major problems we face.  Tom Friedman went along way to maintaining America's greatness with that one column he wrote.  Bravo.