Geraldo Rivera joins anti-dissent caucus

Geoffrey Dickens at Newsbusters catches Fox News host Geraldo Rivera accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney of "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" and "encouraging another attack" by criticizing President Obama's foreign policy.

During an interview Sunday with conservative pundit Ann Coulter, Rivera said the following (MP3 audio):

But don't you think when the former Vice President says America is weaker than it has been that you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy, that you are encouraging another attack?

Rivera joins an emerging anti-dissent caucus on the left that includes Salon's Joan Walsh, Obama counterterrorism official John Brennan (here and here), and New York Times columnist Frank Rich. I've started a timeline of these attacks here.

Comments

[David]

At least Rivera allowed Coulter the opportunity to respond, which she did as follows:

To be hearing that from liberals after eight years of relentless attacks on George Bush, when he was waging the war on terror, is comical. And no, not if it gets, if it gets Obama to behave more like George Bush did, which he is doing by the way.

I mean one of the crazy things Biden also said, and I hope it isn't that crazy, is "Oh yeah we might not be trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed at a civilian trial after all. We may just keep him in Guantanamo." I mean Obama keeps starting to do what his left wing instincts and advisers encourage him to do, which is to treat this like a criminal offense. Like it's Martha Stewart facing an insider trading charge. And then America blows up and he goes right back to whatever Bush was doing. When he does that, he's doing a good job.