Their Silence Is Deafening

Not too long ago, Charlie Sykes, Patrick McIlheran and the rest of the Posse Comatose were simply outraged at organizations like MoveOn.org, when they called General Patraeus "General Betray Us." They were completely beside themselves that those dirty liberals would try to belittle and smear one of America's greatest military minds, or so they said then.

Now, they are completely silent about their military hero. Probably because of this (emphasis mine):

Speaking with Radio Free Europe on Sunday, General David Patreaus came out with two very clear statements that are not likely to make former Vice President Dick Cheney very happy. In short, Patraeus is siding with President Barack Obama on the matters of closing Guantanamo Bay prison, and ending the government sanctioned practice of torture on detainees.

As Charlie would say, "Cue the crickets."

See also Heartland Hollar.

It Is Indeed Encouraging News

McIlheran does a Whallah! on himself, without even realizing it. He writes of a visit by David Horowitz, some right wing nut and supposed journalist. (Sidenote: Why do all right wing nuts seem to be so-called journalists? That is insulting to the real ones, I'm sure.)

PaddyMac writes (emphasis mine):

The encouraging part is this, and you'll see it about two-thirds of the way through: "University officials ordered metal detectors and a security force of a more than dozen burly officers and staffers for the event. I didn’t count how many individuals had to be ejected during my remarks but there were many," he writes.

Why is that encouraging, you may ask? Because it shows there is a growing number of people that see through the lies of the righties. It also shows that there is growing discontent with the way that things are going in this country, and that more and more people are ready to correct the course we are on.

Just Leave Them Alone

Something that was not covered by the right wing mainstream media, was the President's immediate reaction to Congress questioning General Patraeus regarding Iraq:




This led to criticism of Bush by some parties which led to this press release: