Hobson's Choice: Left's Treason or Right's Lies

Rick Moran has a piece on Right Wing Nut House that skewers Rumsfeld for lying to a traitorous creep named Roy McGovern [any relation?] at a news conference in Atlanta.

Rumsfeld, as I have noted often on my blog, seems stuck on stupid when it comes to dumb Dutch pigheaded inflexibility---I suppose gracefully admitting mistakes to a disloyal pack of rabid dogs on the left is very difficult and don't know if I could do it myself---but when turncoat McGovern says Rumsfeld was "lying" about WMD, just come back with the fact that everyone in all the worlds' intelligence communities said the same thing.

Instead, Rumsfeld denies he said it, something as easy to verify as the fact that Molly Ivins is a serial plagiarizer and insane to boot. But Rick says it better:

Rumsfeld’s lie yesterday about something he didn’t have to lie about points to this changed dynamic in Washington that extends all the way to the office of the President. Accepting responsibility for mistakes both of omission and commission is necessary for our public servants. The American people recognize this which is why they are almost always quick to forgive an official who admits mistakes and apologizes. How and why this tradition has been lost probably has a lot to do with the polarization of our politics and the rabid, open hostility of the media to this President and his policies. But this really is no excuse. The people have shown that they are perfectly capable of making up their own minds about our leaders, even when they get most of their information through the prism of a press suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome. George Bush’s re-election proves that point in emphatic fashion.