Yeah, just like clo, the leftist media fawns over so-called "moderate Muslims," today, only to conveniently "discover," tomorrow, that their favored "moderate Muslim" of yesterday is (and always has been) a murderous, Islamo-fascist terrorist. Why clo and her usual sources for leftist propaganda do this unseemly, hypocritical two-step is quite simple ... as anti-Americans, they would rather side with murderous tyrants against their fellow Americans whenever it provides them with a convenient opportunity to falsely demonize those who do not agree with their leftist ideology. Then, like the infantile children that they are, they turn on their formerly favored Muslim poster child du jour and expect no one will remember their support and words of praise for the sworn enemies of our country. 
http://www.mrc.org/cmi/articles/2011/Media_Highlight_Wanted_Terrorist_Al_Awlaki_Forget_They_Called_Him_Moderate.html

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence