Geoffrey Dickens at Newsbusters catches Fox News host Geraldo Rivera accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney of “giving aid and comfort to the enemy” and “encouraging another attack” by criticizing President Obama’s foreign policy.
During an interview Sunday with conservative pundit Ann Coulter, Rivera said the following (MP3 audio):
But don’t you think when the former Vice President says America is weaker than it has been that you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy, that you are encouraging another attack?
Rivera joins an emerging anti-dissent caucus on the left that includes Salon’s Joan Walsh, Obama counterterrorism official John Brennan (here and here), and New York Times columnist Frank Rich. I’ve started a timeline of these attacks here.