Leftwing Blogosphere Erupts in Anger Over Obama Reversal on 'Torture' Photos Release

Newsbusters.org ^ | 5-14-09 | P.J. Gladnick

[a fool in paradise]

The Boston Globe ran photos that had been stolen from a porn website and had ALREADY BEEN EXPOSED AS A HOAX by the State Department back in 2004. They ran them as “evidence” that “US soldiers” were “raping” “Iraqi women”.

That is treasonous. And it had even already been exposed as a hoax among the arab street (Egyptian press) by the time that the Boston Glob ran them as “truth”.

I loathe the Pravda media.

Meanwhile, Obama’s birth certificate still has yet to be released (he continues to litigate against it in court, over $1million spent so far).

[a fool in paradise]

Let's counter this agit prop exercise. Let's remind them of the actions at Abu Ghraib that the world never voiced outrage about. The actions that occurred under Saddam Hussein. The lopping off of prisoners' hands. The raping of their wives. Disembowelings.

There is a double standard at work.

http://www.iraqcoalition.org/pressreleases/20040528_Fake_limbs.html

Iraqis Dismembered by Saddam Received Artificial Limbs in U.S.

[skeeter]

The left is playing an all-or-nothing game. They expect to win it ALL.

All the while our side drones on about "compromise".

Suckers, patsies & saps.

[colorado tanker]

Well, He did.

I agree, I think Cheney is having an effect.

The Rookie thought he had cleverly inoculated himself from the consequences of a terror attack by his picks for SecDef and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, just continuing Bush's team, doncha know.

Well, with his very public break with the Bush administration over interrogation and release of the legal memos and calls for investigations, he doesn't have the it's all the Bush team's fault argument, he's not continuing their policies. Now Cheney is saying Zero is harming national security with his policy changes.

All of a sudden, an attack would be on his watch and his inoculate won't work. Too late he realizes he shouldn't have gone down this path at all. And he's watching his Speaker of the House twisting in the wind over the crap he started.

[raccoonradio]

>>we have to reconcile ourselves to the fact that Dick Cheney still runs DC no matter how unpopular and despicable he is

That’s what DC now stands for, D_ick C_heney! :)

[randog]

Yeah, it’s a clever trick—seemingly sit on the fence before letting the wind blow you to one side or the other. Then you can talk out both sides of your mouth with plausible deniability. John Kerry tried it and failed miserably (”I voted for it before I voted against it”). Obama’s much better, and although it’s still transparent as hell, he fools the majority.

[wvguy]

Great, appropriate picture! :-)

[SunkenCiv]

It was so bad that Cenk Uygur, the leftwing host of The Young Turks radio show, claimed that Obama was cowed into caving in to Dick Cheney as you can see in his Daily Kos post...

It must have been bad to have to read Cenk Uygur / the Daily Kos. :') We should go easy on these leftist stooges -- they've seldom tasted reality, and it's an acquired taste for most. I'm sure they're going to jump back behind their wall of denial soon.