Whitewashing Iran

A remarkable admission from lefty blogger (one of the sane ones, which is what makes it notable) Kevin Drum, what amounts to claiming that he does not criticize Iran because it might help Bush (or the Republicans, the Neocons, or some other dreaded bogeyman).

Junkyard blog nails it with his close: "This is a journalist, by the way; someone who—though he may be biased—is supposed to have some passing acquaintance with telling the truth. Even if it helps the other party. But his conscience is troubled more by possibly helping Bush with his super-important, oracular, weighty-smart words than it is by his helping the Mullahs—the antithesis of everything he believes, and who want to kill us all—through his dishonest silence."

As many have said, it is impossible to parody the left these days.