Nobody Said This Was Going To be Pretty

Digby's Hullabaloo by Digby | Apr. 27, 2009 (Opinion)

Dick Cheney is forlorn and all alone. Many of the people who advocated taking the gloves off are leaving him out there hanging today. And one of them is Jonathan Alter.

See, he forgot to mention --- and Keith apparently didn't know --- that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 this torture talk didn't come out of nowhere or even from the dark recesses of Cheney's evil mind. Jonathan Alter himself was one of the people who brought it up almost instantly: Full Story »

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by Kenneth Sibbett - Apr. 30, 2009

The author makes a great point. In the days after 9/11, people would have beheaded Bin Laden on the Capital Steps. There's alot of short memories out there, and they should be called on it.

One thing you can say about Oberman, he's like a bull seeing red when going after a story. How people could watch O'Rielly over Oberman is a mystery. Maybe they just like to laugh.

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by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 27, 2009

Digby finds a clear example of a "pundit" who advocated torture and cheered Cheney on 7 years ago, and so have soiled any credibility regarding whether to prosecute.

So much for the Alter ego.

Dwight posted this story.

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