Keep preaching the truth, Sister. We need your voice out there as loud and correct and often — not to mention respectful — as possible.

Oh, ha ha snort, I crack me up. I don’t understand why lefties are such dour, cheerless people. Why, just writing like they do makes me laugh.

Wait, it must be that whole mental health thing, where Republicans are less, you know, koo-koo than Dems. Or we think we are anyway. Or they think they’re not.

Damn. Uh… what I meant to say was, if Dubya and the Republicans hadn’t marginalized this poor mentally ill man to the point that he felt he had no options than violence… and, uh, Abu Ghraib. Waterboarding. Larry Craig is a homo, nyah nyah nyah!!!

Frankly, this makes more sense (politically speaking) than trying to make Eisenberg the Absolute Moral Authority on health care, which was AP’s and CNN’s initial spin.

Here it is.

Key quote from the AP piece:

Eisenberg [the hostage-taker] had a hostage call CNN three times and spoke to network staffers during the standoff, CNN reported after the ordeal was over and all the hostages were safe. Eisenberg said he wanted help getting psychiatric care, but had been turned away because he didn’t have the money.

“I need to speak to Hillary Clinton,” CNN quoted him as saying. “Something’s got to change. Ordinary people need help” with their insurance.

The network described Eisenberg as “well-spoken, articulate and impassioned about his cause” but increasingly agitated. His third phone call was laced with profanities, CNN said.

“Well-spoken” and “articulate”, eh? It’s not hard to figure out now what the MSM’s spin will be: This never would have happened if we had had national health care in the first place. The blame for this barbaric episode can be laid at the feet of opponents of socialized medicine. Remember how the MSM tried to use the tragedy at Virginia Tech earlier this year to agitate for more gun-control laws?

On the other hand ….. there is something appropriate about the MSM using a madman with a fake bomb as an argument for socialized medicine. Given the absolute and utter failure of “national health care” programs in Europe and Canada, I have long suspected that socialized medicine advocates were sociopaths anyway. Birds of a feather…

My best guess is a combination of (1), (5) and (7) will become the MSM’s talking points by the middle of next week.

I hope and pray that everyone comes out alive and unharmed.

Now, is he a right winger? Or a leftist MoveOn/DKos type who’s just really fed up with Hillary for her vote on the Iraq War? Or just a generic, attention seeking wacko? Time will tell of course.

OTOH, I guess he may be the only person who may have found a way to get Hillary to listen to an unscripted question.

I’m also completely certain that no matter how this turns out, Hillary’s spin doctors will spin this into a martyr “poor lil’Hillary is under attack” thing. If they did it with a few tough questions in the debate, just think of the field day this guy just handed her campaign.