In Another Era, We Would Have Called This A Derangement Syndrome.

But it's a new day, so let's simply call Roger L. Simon what he is: a pathetic douchebag.

Obama has strange friends. He equivocates and equalizes in disturbing ways. Is he “objectively pro-fascist” as George Orwell memorably wrote in his famous essay "Pacifism and the War"?

As usual though, his real sin is laziness:

-- "This display of what Orwell might have called “objectively pro-fascist” behavior by [Charles] Freeman apparently does not dismay [Roger] Cohen, despite murmurings about China I heard all around me from a predominantly Jewish audience." (March 2009)

-- "Why not take a few million of those skillions of stimulus (or whatever it is ) dollars and make a movie that tells the real truth about Che Guevara, rather than the objectively pro-fascist hagiographic gibberish that my Hollywood colleagues have been making." (March 2009)

-- "Some of us will have to be excused for considering the AP’s coverage of the same way, in Orwell’s terms, to have been “objectively pro-fascist.”" (June 2008)

-- "But Orwell best described the likes of [Seymour] Hersh when he called them “objectively pro-fascist.”" (April 2007)

-- "When I say many in the media have become “objectively pro-fascist,” this is an example of what I mean." (July 2005)

-- "Some people howled like stuck pigs when I called certain people in the media “objectively pro-fascist” in Orwell’s terminology, but I thought maybe I was understating and the “objectively” should be removed when I read this account of a “going away party” at Reuters." (July 2005)

-- "Will Amnesty [International] defend this real human rights abuse? Or how about this one - Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi: Collateral Killing of Muslims is Legitimate? Or will they remain, in Orwell’s evocative phrase,”objectively pro-fascist”?" (June 2005)

-- "Unless and until, the AP makes a full disclosure of their methods in this case, including the identities of their photographers, I will continue to regard their behavior as, in Orwell’s words, “objectively pro-fascist.” (I guess that’s what Glenn Reynolds means by being “on the other side.”)" (December 2004)

-- "They [France, Russia and Germany] were and to a great extent still are, as Orwell put it in an only slightly different context,”objectively pro-fascist.”" (October 2004)