MORE RESULTS FROM THE MADNESS PATROL – AT 9:06 P.M. ET:  Remember the days when Sergeant York was a hero?  John McCain?  The astronauts?  The Marines at Iwo Jima?

Well, I guess definitions of words are a bit different out in lala land.  From The Washington Examiner:

America's nuttiest city is at it again:

The Berkeley City Council will consider a resolution that would declare the Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks a hero and call for his release.

The council plans a vote Tuesday on the resolution in support of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is being held in a military brig in Virginia. A city commission already has approved it.

Bob Meola, who authored the resolution, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that Manning is a patriot who deserves a medal.

COMMENT:  A medal?  A MEDAL?  Now, just what would this medal be?  What would the citation say?  "For conspicuous treachery in the face of a computer"?

Who would award the medal?  I know.  The publisher of The New York Times would award it "on behalf of a grateful nation."  The nation, of course, would be Iran, or maybe North Korea. 

And I could easily see the statue of Manning in Berkeley's Red Square, or Town Square, or whatever they call it.  This American hero, with laptop, grinning.  Berkeley citizens can come by and give marijuana offerings.

Yuch.

December 8, 2010