SICKENING – AT 4:25 P.M. ET:  As if more proof were needed that the left, especially the European left, intends to use the victims of last week's horror in Norway for its own purposes, we have the example of the little prime minister of Spain, who now lectures us.  From CBS News:

The prime minister of Spain reportedly said Monday that last week's killing spree in Norway requires "a European response" in which Europeans should be called on "to rise up and fight radicalism, to respond against xenophobia."

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero made the comments during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron at his No. 10 Downing Street office in London, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported in its liveblog about the Norway attacks.

Zapatero spoke before a Norwegian judge briefed reporters on a court hearing for Anders Behring Breivik, the man who confessed to killing an overall total of at least 76 people in a shooting at an island youth retreat and a bombing at Oslo's government headquarters Friday. Breivik wrote in his manifesto that his plan was to save Europe from Muslims.

"This isn't just another event," Zapatero told reporters. "This is something extremely serious that requires a response, a European response, a shared response to defend freedom, to defend democracy, calling on people to rise up and fight radicalism, to respond against xenophobia."

COMMENT:  Zapatero, who took advantage of the terror attacks in Madrid in 2004 to win his office, is one of the great clowns of Europe.  An old America hater – he famously refused to stand for the American flag when it passed in a parade saying, "It's not my flag" – he also presides over one of the most pro-Arab and anti-Irael governments in the West.  At one time he liked to suit up in Arab scarves to show his solidarity, apparently with a gang of Mideast dictators.

His country is an economic mess, and may have to be bailed out.  But Zapatero now lectures us to fight radicalism, although he's supported radicalism of the left most of his life.  As usual, he didn't express the slightest sympathy for the victims of last week's murders.  It's all political.

Fortunately, throughout the internet, conservatives are fighting back against attempts to link them to the Norway incident, and I believe we'll easily win the fight for public opinion. 

July 25, 2011