Crocodile Tears

(Fox News) - Liberal columnist Michael Kinsley says Republican indignation over the MoveOn.org ad calling General David Petraeus "General Betray Us" is — in his words — "mock outrage."

Kinsley writes in Time Magazine that the ad can be interpreted as questioning the general's honesty — not his patriotism. But Kinsley says that the negative reaction to the ad has been phony and writes, "The war's backers are obviously delighted to have this ad from which they can make an issue."

He adds, "When so many people are clamoring for a chance to swoon that they each have to take a number and when the landscape is so littered with folks lying prostrate and pretending to be dead that it starts to look like the end of a Civil War battle re-enactment, this isn't spontaneous mass outrage. This is choreography."