Ed Feulner and Phil Truluck With Alligator (Andrew Blasko), originally uploaded by Rob Bluey.

Liberal bloggers at Campus Progress and Wonkette recently compared the Heritage Foundation’s barbed-wire fence and “moat” to the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. As noted by a commenter on Campus Progress, the one thing missing was an alligator.

Heritage President Ed Feulner and Executive Vice President Phil Truluck fixed that problem today when they took great care to deliver a new six-foot-long alligator to its new home — the Heritage moat. (See another shot of the alligator here.)

We’re happy to laugh alongside the liberals, but the truth is we’re not trying to keep them out of our building. Heritage is undergoing a major facelift that requires use of the front lawn. The “moat” was dug to allow construction crews to waterproof the lower part of the building.