I'm fine with everyone lying. - - RealName

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/04/open_season_on_.html

thats the left - FACTS ARE IRRELEVANT
- - Pamela Geller Oshry on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 01:51 PM

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/04/wmdwhy_joe_wils.html

But tell me how much you have heard about .Dave Gaubatz. Yeah met too. Melanie Phillips has it all here. And read it all, particulalry you leftarded lurkers . . . Expect apoplexy from the left, I love watching the peace consipirators spin positive on Saddam.
- - Pamela Geller Oshry on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 03:24 PM

Here are two portraits of her.
2003: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,909091,00.html
2006: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1798980,00.html

and she's married to Joshua Rozenberg, who helps fan the flames of bigotry:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/inayat_bunglawala/2006/12/whos_afraid_of_shariah_law.html

A denial that sober, responsible Bush followers would have associated themselves with Gaubatz. (This is from Patterico's blog -- the civil, dignified web site that literally categorizes "Glenn Greenwald" as "Scum". Check out http://patterico.com/category/scum if you think I'm kidding.)
http://patterico.com/2007/04/22/theres-a-third-thing-thats-certain-ben-death-taxes-and-glenn-greenwald-lying

4/22/2007
There’s a Third Thing That’s Certain, Ben: Death, Taxes, and Glenn Greenwald Lying
— Patterico @ 12:40 pm
. . . Finally, we have Power Line’s Scott Johnson, who merely says that the article is very interesting . . .

So says Patterico, but here's what Claremont Institute Fellow Johnson actually said.

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017398.php
April 20, 2007
MEET DAVE GAUBATZ
The current issue of the (UK) Spectator has some extremely interesting articles. The article by Washington Post editorial board member Anne Applebaum on Vladimir Putin is one of them, but none surpasses Melanie Phillips's "I found Saddam's WMD bunkers" in interest. Phillips's article tells the story of Dave Gaubatz, an agent in the US Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations who searched Iraqi WMD sites after the fall of Saddam.
- - Posted by Scott at 07:43 AM

Patterico, the self-described pontificator, issues his not-so-papal bull:

One of the three bloggers says the article is very interesting. The other two, Glenn Reynolds and Allah [Allahpundit at Malkin's "Hot Air" blog], actually cast doubt on Gaubatz’s claims. Yet, despite the clear evidence that Allah and Reynolds don’t buy the theory, Greenwald nevertheless claims that Allah (and Reynolds) are both pointing at Gaubatz as the “Iraqi Weapons Expert who knows the Real Truth behind Saddam’s Missing WMDs.”

Allahpundit's disclaimer is that he only jumped off the cliff because all his friends were jumping off the cliff: "Melanie Phillips’s new piece in the Spectator is making the rounds so I might as well toss up a link. This story isn’t new — FrontPage was writing about Gaubatz last April and the Times featured him in a story about diehard WMD believers in June. He seems credible, but I must say, stories about the continuing hunt for WMDs at this point seem to me like a right-wing version of Trutherism. Besides, even if Gaubatz is right . . . " Pope Patterico seems to have tuned out the, um, subliminable message from Allahpundit.

Reynolds, of course, ALWAYS disclaims that he was merely linking, without a hint of approval. In this case, he tried to cover his private parts both frontways and backways by the circumlocution, "Er, wouldn’t this be news if it were true? Maybe not, these days." Which is about as subtle as a toddler playing peekaboo.

Patterico, so proud of his Debate Club skills that he could just bust, finishes up by writing,

"P.P.S. Last night a friend of mine (who is not one of the people Greenwald criticizes in his post, by the way) asked me: Do you think he’s dense or just a hack who doesn’t care if he’s right?"

False dichotomy, but nicely projected.

Giving the White House to these guys was like giving the car keys to Toonces. Or, on second thought, it may be unfair to subsume "Patterico & Pals" under the rubric of "funny felines". Unfair, that is, to my own cats, who'd certainly never cat-egorize any humans as "scum." (We're "the household staff.")