Molly Ivins's typical lefty schadenfreude

It's typical of the left to suffer from schadenfreude these days. Take for example, Molly Ivins's palpable glee at reporting that the number of Iraqi civilian deaths during the occupation of Iraq exceeded those during Saddam's rule. Too bad that she was colossaly incorrect and had to issue an embarrassing retraction.

However, the point is that Molly Ivins's behavior is typical lefty behavior. No matter how much she may disagree with Bush about policy, to say that she was "keeping an eye on civilian deaths...waiting for the most conservative estimates to creep over 20,000" is disgusting to say the least.