The Hypocrisy of the Right Concerning Nick Berg

It's just amazing, really. Everytime someone brings up the prison abuse in Iraq, some wingnut proclaims, "Oh, that's all liberals want to talk about. Why is no one talking about Nick Berg?"

The irony is that it is largely progressive voices talking about Nick Berg and asking questions about what happened to him as well as the many questions unanswered. That the media - which is hardly liberal these days, all sucking the teat of journalism as practiced by Rupert Murdoch - has spent far more time discussing the upset on last week's "American Idol" and the end of "Survivor" is hardly to be blamed on any one left of the extreme right.

In fact, some of us resent the hell out of the fact that the right has latched onto the tragedy of Mr. Berg as some kind of carte blanche excuse for everything. I doubt Mr. Berg, even though he was supportive of Mr. Bush and this war, would have wanted that to be his legacy.

Fifteen thousand wrongs don't make a right, even in the world according to Bush.