Alterman: Slacker Friday - Rush, Nader, Rumsfeld...

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Slacker Friday:  Readers Pile on Ralph.

Rumsfeld is responsible: 

Nearly word for word, the harsh methods detailed in memos signed by Mr. Rumsfeld -- which even administration lawyers considered violations of the Geneva Conventions -- were then distributed to interrogators at Abu Ghraib.  The procedures in turn could be read to cover much of what is seen in the photographs that have scandalized the world.  How did this spread of improper and illegal practices occur?

Now talk about lowering the bar, Post editorialists write:

But President Bush deserves credit for accepting that some administration policymaking was, as his counsel put it, "controversial" and "subject to misinterpretation….” 

Good thing none of these guys ever invested in Arkansas real estate….

Bill Scher has a fine “Think Again" column on the media’s anger with Americans for not recognizing their good fortune.

Rush continues to wrestle with reality...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/