"...What is happening now is not normal politics...."

[Grins]

33. He covered for Republicans going back 45 years

He looked the other way with Harry Dent, Lee Atwater, Roger Stone. Covered for and never criticized Reagan. Same with Bush II and Karl Rove. He couldn’t wait for Bush’s grand war against people who never did anything to us, called those of us against that war liberal appeasers, or worse - traitors - just like the rest of the Reich-wing media. He, like Krauthammer, believed all the lies and propaganda coming out of the WH pushing for a war against Iraq, and gave it cover until even - William Freaking Buckley - said, “We fucked up. We lost.” And then it was “How did America fail…?”

Driftglass calls him the Pope of the High and Holy Church of “Both Sides Do It!!” And for that, too - fuck him.