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Whoa, pardner. When you wrote:

'Or it could be they're counting on the testimony of liberal intellectual Justin Raimondo, who holds that Brawley's vicious lies were "figuratively and symbolically true." '

You're not reading the article correctly. Raimondo (who might challenge you to a duel if he hears you called him a liberal) was summarizing and condemning the position of Sharpton and his gang of race hucksters, not his own opinion. Look at what Raimondo wrote in context:

"The line between truth and falsehood is easily blurred where ideology is concerned: if Tawana wasn't literally a victim in this case, then surely her rape at the hands of marauding white cops was figuratively and symbolically true in the sense that it was a plausible story.

Or something like that?"

He then starts the next paragraph with this:

"A similar hoax recently threw all of France into turmoil."

Those are not the words one uses to discuss a case one believes; rather, Raimondo was agreeing that Brawley was a liar.

Check out other articles about America's favorite clown-reverend JR has written or featured on his site:

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j112801.html

http://www.antiwar.com/rep/szamuely/szamuely26.html

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j060403.html

Wait a minute here! First, Raimondo is a libertarian, not a liberal. He frequently writes for the American Conservative. Second, here's what he said in the article:

The line between truth and falsehood is easily blurred where ideology is concerned: if Tawana wasn't literally a victim in this case, then surely her rape at the hands of marauding white cops was figuratively and symbolically true in the sense that it was a plausible story.

He was taking a shot at the kind of people who would say it was "figuratively and symbolically true", not endorsing that view.

I met Justin Raimondo several years ago at a meeting of the John Randolph Society in San Mateo, California. Yes, he is a paleo-libertarian, not a liberal, but in many ways there isn't a lot of difference. Paleos climb into bed with the radical left every chance they get. They are anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, though they do have a couple of self-hating Jews in their ranks to give them plausible deniability.

Raimondo was also the webmaster of Antiwar.com, and is as anti-war as Code Pink. He has written that, in the war between the US and Japan, the wrong side won. Raimondo is a kook with a capital K.

Visual artists continue create explicit and pieces defaming Christianity and all other belief systems, except for one certain Peaceful Religion... Due to fear of violent reprisals. Via Hot Air.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article2896431.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084

More soldiers died under Slick Willy and Dhimmi Carter than in the liberation of Iraq:

http://patdollard.com/2007/11/18/military-deaths-since-1980stuff-this-in-yer-pink-and-code-it/

Justin Raimondo warrants a "Profiles in Moonbattery" piece of his own. For that matter, so does Sharpton.

There should be a "Moonbat of the Year" poll at the end of the year.

Scott, Carter and Clinton were in office for 12 years vs. 5 years for the Iraq war. Which is what many will say, so its not a good comparison. Though what is true is that certain years in the early 80s there were more military peace time death than in the worst year of Iraq/Afghanistan. The best figure is that over 400,000 died in WW II in 3 1/2 years vs. less than 4,000 in 5 years for Iraq/Afghanistan (and the population was much smaller than it is now, so the 400,000 would equal over 1 million today. Every death is tragedy by history helps to put things into perspective. Back then it was mostly draftees fighting, today its volunteers. No one is holding a gun to their heads to sign up.

As pointed out in comments above, I made a mistake characterizing Raimondo and his quote, so the last sentence has been reworded for accuracy.

There should be a "Moonbat of the Year" poll at the end of the year.
V the K

I second that. For overall moonbat influence I think Algore wins hands down. Maybe such a poll would need to be done in categories of moonbattery, sort of like Academy Awards are for different categories of film. Influence on Society, Hatred of America, Communist Posing As Humanitarian, Most Mendacious Profiteer Of Global Warming Scam, Hysterical Theatrics In Public, etc, ect ...

"Maryam MUHAMMAD", huh?
Figures.

I guess Tawana changed her name (to a Muslim name, no less... Big Surprise) because she knows her real name brings ridicule with it