Have you ever noticed how the right wing blogs don’t allow comments and the left wing blogs do? There is a reason. Think Progress calls out John Hinderaker in this post. Hinderaker had posted a hit piece on Rep. Murtha after the Congressman appeared on Meet The Press.
oday, Powerline’s John Hinderaker wrote a post entitled “Is Murtha Nuts?” He claims that during an appearance today on Face the Nation “pretty much every ‘fact’ that Murtha hysterically tossed out is wrong.”
Hinderaker then proceeds to “fact check” Murtha’s appearance, which for him seems to mean using words like “absurd” and “unbelievable.” But actually, it’s Hinderaker who, with remarkable consistency, gets it wrong. Here’s Hinderaker vs. the facts —
Hinderaker: “Murtha’s suggestion that the administration said Iraq had nuclear weapons is absurd. (Why don’t talk show hosts ever seem to call Democrats on these wild misrepresentations?)”
Vice President Cheney, Meet the Press, 3/16/03:
We know that based on intelligence that he has been very, very good at hiding these kinds of efforts. He’s had years to get good at it and we know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. I think Mr. ElBaradei frankly is wrong. And I think if you look at the track record of the International Atomic Energy Agency and this kind of issue, especially where Iraq’s concerned, they have consistently underestimated or missed what it was Saddam Hussein was doing.
Read the whole piece to see how dishonest Hinderaker is. Our entire military is committed to a war in Iraq and it is breaking down. We are spending billions of dollars to support that war and taking on trillions in national debt. Now is the time to tell the truth, no matter how politically embarrassing it is.