Did anyone see the David Broder chat on Friday? It was truly pathetic. I wrote a blog post about it here;

http://wwwdemocracity.blogspot.com/2009/04/pure-motives-bigger-fish-to-fry.html

I'm not sure the link that I posted in my previous comment is a good one because it has an old headline in it??? so I've added a link to my blog in my sig. The Broder post is the very first post on my blog.

Broder on Torture Investigations/Prosecutions

Did anyone see the David Broder chat on Friday? It was truly pathetic. I wrote a blog post about it here;

http://wwwdemocracity.blogspot.com/2009/04/pure-motives-bigger-fish-to-fry.html

So does anyone know if this Sean Wright person posted anything here before he rushed off to post his attack of Greenwald at Daily Kos? I'm not asking anyone to look through all the comments (I don't have the time either). I was just curious if anyone knew if it happened.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/11/719016/-The-Fundamental-Dishonesty-of-Glenn-Greenwald#c193

Thanks for the info bystander. I kind of figured as much.

I commented on the Daily Kos thread and Mr. Wright called me a scoundrel. LOL. Here was what brought on the comment.

"I read this article by Glenn Greenwald today and hurried over here to right a diary about how strikingly misleading it was ..."

I'll bet you did. I noticed a certain "rush to judgment" quality about your diary. And I'm sure the next time you hurry on over here to disparage Greenwald you'll be sure to tell us all whether Greenwald missed adding a link or even a comma or two that in your view he should have added.

By the way considering you are such an expert on the motives of others perhaps you can tell me why you used the word "right" instead of "write" in your very first sentence. Was this because in your haste to write this diary that you had it in your mind that you were "right" and Greenwald was wrong? Was this just a freudian slip on your part when you used the word "right" instead of "write" or was it deliberate? Surely it wasn't just a common garden variety error that most people, even Greenwald, can make sometimes when writing?

"The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties." - Thomas Jefferson

by pmorlan on Sat Apr 11, 2009 at 08:13:33 PM EDT

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last refuge of a scoundrel.

by seanwright on Sat Apr 11, 2009 at 08:29:55 PM ED

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Thank you sir - coming from you I'll wear it as a badge of honor!

"The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties." - Thomas Jefferson

by pmorlan on Sat Apr 11, 2009 at 08:34:40 PM EDT,/blockquote>

Thanks, Kitt. I'm not familiar with his diaries but the Greenwald heading caught my eye. I still post on Daily Kos because I think it's important not to let the Obama apologists have the field to themselves. I made the sarcastic post instead of a more substantive argument to this guy because he'd already been challenged on his specific argument about Greenwald. Plus I thought he really deserved a sarcastic response.

LOL. I wonder if Mr. Wright called CanyonWren a scoundrel like he did to me. LOL - See my post a couple of pages back. LOL

It's pretty bad that he didn't even bother to fix it after both of us telling him he had the typo.

The Cole post is too funny. You should post it right in the middle of the current discussion. LOL

That's why I'd like to see it posted in that thread. I'd love to see the Obama apologists see it.

Here's another call for a blue ribbon commission on torture.

Feds Need Torture Commission Now

CourtWatch: The President And Congress Should Set Up Bipartisan Panel To Understand Why Torture Occurred, If It Reached Goals Comment On This Post April 12, 2009 | by Andrew Cohen

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Advocates on the left cringe when they hear the "I-word" - to them it smacks of capitulation, another example of government protecting itself from its own misconduct. But what, realistically, do human rights advocates believe is going to happen otherwise? What’s better - years of pre-trial hearings and appeals in a vain effort to bring John Yoo before a jury? Or hauling him in as early as this year, under penalty of perjury, before an inquisitive panel of experts? What’s worse? Hearing Vice President Dick Cheney use torture as a political issue with his dire (but cynically unspecific) warnings about how we are weaker now that we don’t degrade prisoners? Or a nationally-respected panel that has access to classified information, subpoena power, and near-universal heft?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/12/opinion/courtwatch/main4937888.shtml

Good comments on the Cohen piece. I hope others will put in their 2 cents too.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/12/opinion/courtwatch/main4937888.shtml

It should be very interesting to see the kind of self-serving, back peddling comments that will be made by our fearless leaders in Congress today, should anyone bother asking them their views about this NYT story. I hope if anyone sees any of these comments that they will post them here for all of us to ridicule.

And speaking of self-serving comments, did everyone see the interview with Armitage where he said that he hoped he would have had the "courage" to resign if he had known at the time about the Bush administration torture, while at the same time he was calling for no accountability for the torture crimes? It was nauseating.

And in keeping up with my theme today about self-serving comments. Here is a link to my blog piece where I wrote about the interview of Armitage.

http://wwwdemocracity.blogspot.com/2009/04/armitage-against-following-rule-of-law.html