Slandering Jill Carroll

To the surprise of no one who knows anything, Jill Carroll slammed the United States on a videotape before her Iraqi captors released her. From The New York Times:

In a videotape posted Thursday on the Internet, made before her release, Ms. Carroll denounced the American presence in Iraq and praised the insurgents fighting here. In the video, Ms. Carroll smiled, laughed once and gestured in a seemingly relaxed manner, saying she felt guilty about being released while so many Iraqis were still suffering.

Ms. Carroll, apparently knowing she would be released, denounced what she described as the "lies" told by the American government and predicted that the insurgents would defeat the Americans in Iraq. "I feel guilty. I also feel that it just shows that the mujahedeen are good people fighting an honorable fight, a good fight. While the Americans are here, the occupying forces, you know, treating the people in a very, very bad way. So I can't be happy totally for my freedom because there are people still suffering in prisons, in very difficult situations."

Later--after she was homeward bound--she corrected herself, explaining that a gun had been pointed at her during the making of that tape. Which, as I say, which obvious. But not to the right wing pundits who are so brave about sending other people's kids to fight and die. In the days between the first news reports and Jill Carroll's explanation, the right crucified her....starting with the Iraqi headgear she was wearing when she was released.

Simple question: Would Bill O'Reilly have refused to make that tape? Rush? Hannity? You?

Really? You would have said, 'I'd rather die.' Of course you would have. And so would Bill, Rush, and Sean, I'm sure.