IF ONLY RUMMY WAS GAY...

Robert Scheer, over at the LA Times is making no sense again. Unable to comprehend the concept of Democracy and unwilling to state the truth, he praters on and we get stuff like this:

“What a wonderful image of democracy and tolerance the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has presented to the world by allowing same-sex marriages.”

How exactly is the writ of four judges “democracy”? If it were democracy, wouldn’t there be a few more votes? To liberals like Scheer, anything that advances their cause is “democracy”, anything that thwarts it is “special interests” or “ultra-right wing ideologues forcing their agenda on the people”, etc.

In the same editorial, Scheer manages to blame Donald Rumsfeld for the prison scandal. Scheer quotes from Seymour Hersh’s new book with supposed proof that Rummy planned the whole thing:

"Rumsfeld and [Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen] Cambone … expanded the scope of [a top-secret intelligence-gathering program], bringing its unconventional methods to Abu Ghraib. The commandos were to operate in Iraq as they had in Afghanistan. The male prisoners could be treated roughly, and exposed to sexual humiliation," reports Hersh, relying on insider intelligence sources.”

Of course, Scheer leaves out key parts of Hersh’s book, such as the parts that say Rummy didn’t have anything to do with it. We have to go to Joel Mowbray for that bit of information:

“Buried 3,300 words inside a 4,500-word article is the following exoneration: "Rumsfeld may not be personally culpable." And farther down near the end was another: "The former intelligence official made it clear that he was not alleging that Rumsfeld or Gen. (Richard) Myers knew that atrocities were committed."

Ah, the liberal media. Will they ever change? I doubt it. I’m not even sure I want them to.