September 11th, since 2001, has always seemed to bring out the raging anti-Semite lurking none too far beneath the skin of many on the Left.

To briefly give example to this observation: blogger Canadian Cynic noted his belief that Stephen Harper has been ‘bought’ by the , and just for good measure threw in a snide reference to . Cyinc’s exact comment on Harper, by the way, began by noting that, “Jewly speaking,” (wtf?), Harper had been an excellent investment (screenshot at that link, by the way).

It gets better, with commentators adding their own $0.02 with such pearls of wisdom as:

Who knew it was such a doddle to get ’s highest honour?

“I luz Isreeal!” Now give my my award and make it snappy.

And:

Can we just round these people up and put them in camps where they can’t do any more damage?

And sure enough, there’s no resisting the lure of a Godwin violation:

Stephen Taylor must be so proud

Even Dr. Dawg, another lefty blogger and supposed champion of , thinks this is the cat’s meow:

Rock on, CC, and damn the torpedoes.

It’s really quite incredible. Scratch a leftist, find something truly ugly lurking beneath the surface. All that prattle about human rights and equality is, evidently, just so much pretense.

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