Les Enfants Terrible

THE KIDS AT KOS MAY HAVE MISSED TODAY'S nomination of Priscilla Owen to the federal bench, but that is understandable. They are too busy with outrage over Terry Moran's comment at Hugh Hewitt the other day regarding the "anti-military" sentiment in the White House press corps.

Terry Moran: ...There is, Hugh, I agree with you, a deep anti-military bias in the media. One that begins from the premise that the military must be lying, and that American projection of power around the world must be wrong. I think that that is a hangover from Vietnam, and I think it's very dangerous. That's different from the media doing it's job of challenging the exercise of power without fear or favor.

As usual, it is necessary to employ vulgarity to make their point. In regards to a column on the subject by John Leo, in which he bolsters the argument made by Moran, Kos has this to say...

"What a crock of shit..."

Kos also makes reference to a column by Steve Gilliard, who is credited with giving Moran and Leo a "smackdown."

The last time I remember Moran talking, he was shitting his pants about the Washington sniper a couple of years ago. I think it's a gross insult to say reporters have a bias against the US military.

Now, by repeating this lie, elicited by the cockgobbler Hewitt, Moran shgould rightfully be shunned by he collegues. (emphasis added-ed.)

Kos also quotes John Cole:

I still contend that if Hugh manages to convince enough people that the NY Times piece on torture should be ignored because it is just another salvo in an anti-military barrage, he is actually hurting the people he intends to defend.

Note the reference to a single piece in the NY Times. The NYT has done well over 60 articles on the subject of "torture" to date, including over 50 pieces on Abu Ghraib, most of which were on the front page and offered little to nothing in the way of new information.

Kos wraps it up by accusing Hewitt of willingly trading soldiers lives for "protecting" the president.

Hewitt isn't interested in protecting the troops. He's interested in protecting his party's and his president's investment in the war.

Given that Kos and Co. have done everything they possibly can to undermine the war and paint U.S. policy as corrupt in order to protect the power of the Democratic Party, one can only presume that he speaks from personal experience.