Instead of being happy that America’s only prisoner of war Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from the Afghanistan Conflict has been released, conservative critics of the Obama Administration are piling on the discontent – even if they can’t agree on what they’re upset about or if it conflicts with their previous statements on the matter.

The Afghan Taliban released video showing a blinking, nervous Bergdahl in the back of a ridiculously-painted truck at the location where a US helicopter arrives to pick him up.  Troops search Bergdahl twice, get him on board, and fly away.  In exchange, five senior Taliban figures who were going to be released anyway were sent to Qatar, which promised to keep an eye on them.

American conservatives are apoplectic, and showing it on Murdoch’s media outlets and social media.  They’re upset about accusations that Bergdahl in 2009 grew disenchanted with America’s war efforts, dropped his weapon, and walked away from his post, only to be captured by the Taliban and held prisoner for five years.  The accusations were churned up by a Republican Party media consultant who moonlights on Murdoch’s Fox News Channel. 

Failed Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin sid President Barack Obama “blew it” in securing Bergdahl’s release, and accused Bergdahl of “horrid, anti-American beliefs”.  But when she was Governor of Alaska, Palin said she was “praying for Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, his family, and all of his fellow soldiers who are putting their lives on the line to defend our freedom and protect democracy abroad”.

And it’s not just Palin, it’s really all of them.  Sitting and former lawmakers, some having even introduced legislation calling for the US to do everything possible to secure Bergdahl’s release.  But now that the Black Guy did it, all of a sudden it’s a bad thing.  Other lawmakers sanitized their social media accounts to delete previous posts congratulating Bergdahl on his release.

Meanwhile, the Murdoch media is whipping up the rabble.  The “comments section” of news stories are usually toxic wastelands, but now even more so with hundreds of angry, indignant, and above of completely uninformed people flailing about with rhetorical torches and pitchforks, each convinced that they know exactly what happened thousands and thousands of miles away in a desolate patch of Afghanistan five years ago. 

The online threats and vitriol have gotten so bad that Bergdahl’s hometown was forced to cancel its “welcome home” ceremony for security reasons.

Good job, America.