Digby: Trash Talkin With The Terrorists

I've always wondered why Chris Matthews has Kathleen Parker on his syndicated week-end show so often. She's an attractive woman, but she has the personality of a door knob and makes deadly boring television. Today, I realized it's because they share the same anachronistic 50's sitcom view of life.

Parker's WaPo column begins rather humorously, although it's clear she didn't intend it to be:

On any given day, one isn't likely to find common cause with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He's a dangerous, lying, Holocaust- denying, Jew-hating cutthroat thug -- not to put too fine a point on it.