"'I maintained throughout the release of these prison photos, perspective was what was needed,' Rush Limbaugh declared on his radio program.What a bunch of fucking assholes. First Limbaugh. What is this, Stalinist Russia? We are the United State of America, therefore per se we can do no wrong. Right, one of our soldiers butt-fucked an Iraqi with a glow stick - that counts as human debris in my book, perhaps to Rush that's just a lucky Saturday night. As for John Gibson, what is he even talking about? Right, John, no one was repulsed by the beheading of a 26 year old, no, not at all. That's why it's been all over the new for the past 12 hours.
'They're the ones who are sick,' he added. 'They're the ones who are perverted. They are the ones who are dangerous. They are the ones who are subhuman. They are the ones who are human debris, not the United States of America and not our soldiers and not our prison guards.'
John Gibson, an anchor on the Fox News Channel, echoed that view. 'Where is the outrage?' he said Tuesday after the decapitation video was made public on an Islamic Web site. 'The same people screaming about American abuses at Abu Ghraib are now conspicuously silent about this outrage directed against an American.'" - NYT
What FOX News and Rush Limbaugh fail to realize is that it's not news when a terrorist acts like a terrorist, or at least it's not exactly eye-opening (though in the case of the beheading, it's been the top story all day). But what is news, and what is shocking, and what is especially troubling isn't when we discover that a terrorist is actually evil. Rather, what's really troubling is when we discover that we possess the same capacity for evil in our hearts, and that in some ways, on same days, some of us can be just as bad as some of them. That shocks me and saddens me, and I'm no family-values conservative.
While it shouldn't surprise me, because I know they're all hypocrites, it still bothers me that when push comes to the shove, the people who talk about values and morality the most are the people who often have the least respect for either.
