Vice Squad {Ritter]

National Review Online ^ | January 24, 2003 | James S. Robbins

[Dante3]

I heard more outrage in the media and by politicians against Rocker's trivial comments than I have come across Ritter's dangerous lust.

[syriacus]

Dr. Allen Chartock, who appeared on MSNBC January 21, take the line that one should "divorce the man from the message" because "his political message is very important." The possibility of Iraqi blackmail is not important because "in America you are innocent until proven guilty," and besides, "the message is what's really important."

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I think I can sum up Chartock's message--
Park your brain outside the door. Trust the Lefties to do your thinking.

Thanks for posting this.

[finnman69]

Bump

[dighton]

Good article, Quilla.

While in Moscow, my source's teams were tracked by the KGB, overtly, covertly, and persistently. One could assume that there was never a moment when they were not being monitored one way or another, probably videotaped, definitely audio taped. In bars and restaurants and other off-duty settings he kept running into attractive, very interested women. "I didn't chalk it up to my personal charisma," he said.

[Quilla]

Absolutely.

But as my veteran source said, "At the end of the day, they are all human beings."

Where is the outrage? I don't consider Ritter human at all. On the contrary - he is a pervert and a traitor.

[Sloopy]

It was hard to take Ritter seriously in recent years. His rhetoric had escalated to fringe levels, his reasoning had become somewhat eccentric, and he really had run out of anything new to say factually. He sustained public-figure status through being a fixture in the appointment books of television producers and reporters seeking interesting quotes, but one was always struck by the sense that there was no particular reason to listen to him. He had been out of the game a long time. What was the point?

This just confirms how easily and eagerly the leftist media plays into the hands of the enemies of the Republic.

[FReepaholic]

>>...In my drinking circles when the question of Scott Ritter came up it was never in the context of "Why did he change his mind?" but always, "What do the Iraqis have on him?...<<

Also applies to Clinton. I'm convinced that someone, the Chinese or Russians or somebody, had the goods on him and used that info against him. (not that I don't believe he's capapble of his treasonous acts without "outside influence".)

[gridlock]

When allegations of Ritter's planned sexual encounters with under-aged girls surfaced this week, the collective response was a professionally objective, "Oh, so that was it."

Exactly right.

To put it another way, now that Ritter's, errr, predelictions are known, is there any chance in the world that he would be permitted to join an inspection team? He's blackmail waiting to happen, or perhaps already underway.

[BOBTHENAILER]

The left embraces pedophilia, in support of a mass murderer.

What's next? Widespread support for bestiality as long as the perpetrators are against war or are for taxing the rich?

[gridlock]

"I didn't chalk it up to my personal charisma,"

Ritter strikes me as someone who could chalk up almost anything to his personal charisma.

[gridlock]

In the pantheon of perversion, pedophilia is worse than bestiality, IMHO.

I don't know what PeTA would have to say about it, but I don't consider a "rat to be a dog to be a monkey to be a boy" when it comes to this sort of thing.

[Quilla]

I suspect that any further news produced by the left will include this tag line - Scott Ritter (Republican).

[cody32127]

"What do the Iraqis have on him?"

Or what do the Democrats have on him, The Clintons run NY state he gets in trouble in NY State and all the sudden Iraq is ok and Bush should be impeached????? Hmmmmmm???? Why impeached???? Sounds like wording from someone with a personal and upclose understanding of that process to me. I DON"T put ANY THING past Clinton, He is now breaking protocal and speaking out against Bush in a time of war! These people are dangerous, power hungry, lying fools that will stop at nothing to discredit our President for political gain.

[Quilla]

He is now breaking protocal and speaking out against Bush in a time of war!

Breaking protocal but certainly following Clinton and Carter's leads.

[dighton]

Ritter strikes me as someone who could chalk up almost anything to his personal charisma.

Indeed. He isn't the sort to ask, Why are these Iraqi girls throwing themselves at me?

[BlueLancer]

Because he's such a stud?

[chimera]

When allegations of Ritter's planned sexual encounters with under-aged girls surfaced this week, the collective response was a professionally objective, "Oh, so that was it."

Maybe I'm just getting to be too much of an old skeptical curmudgeon, but the first time I heard Ritter out there slamming Bush about his Iraq policies, the thought occurred that he had been compromised. It was just a matter of finding out how the Iraqis turned him. I must admit to being a bit surprised that it would be an underage sex predilection in Ritter's case, but, as the article points out, the three common foibles, sex, money, drugs, or combinations thereof, are the mainstays of covert intelligence operatives in "recruiting" helpers.

Well, now that its out, it should be clear to anyone with an ounce of brains that Ritter has no credibility. With Bagdad pulling his strings, he's of no use except as a kind of punchinello making the rounds of the talk and news shows, with the left desperately trying to rehabilitate his reputation (and a nod to you, Aaron Brown) so they can have another club to beat Bush up with.

[1Old Pro]

I heard more outrage in the media and by politicians against Rocker's trivial comments than I have come across Ritter's dangerous lust.

An excellent point. It comes down to whose ox is gored I suppose. If it's anti-PC the media goes into overdrive, take the NYTimes jihad against Augusta. If it's anti-U.S. then you better keep your hands off because it's the liberal media cause celeb.

[Mr. Jeeves]

While in Moscow, my source's teams were tracked by the KGB, overtly, covertly, and persistently. One could assume that there was never a moment when they were not being monitored one way or another, probably videotaped, definitely audio taped. In bars and restaurants and other off-duty settings he kept running into attractive, very interested women. "I didn't chalk it up to my personal charisma," he said.

But Bill Clinton did chalk it up to his personal charisma...how many secrets did the Chinese government blackmail out of him?