No Redeeming Qualities

No human being disgusts me more than Seymour Hersh. No - let me re-phrase that. Nothing disgusts me more than Seymour Hersh.

Since the Abu Ghraib story broke eleven months ago, The New Yorker?s national-security correspondent, Seymour Hersh, has followed it up with a series of spectacular scoops. Videotape of young boys being raped at Abu Ghraib. Evidence that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may be a ?composite figure? and a propaganda creation of either Iraq?s Baathist insurgency or the U.S. government. The active involvement of Karl Rove and the president in ?prisoner-interrogation issues.? The mysterious disappearance of $1 billion, in cash, in Iraq. A threat by the administration to a TV network to cut off access to briefings in retaliation for asking Laura Bush ?a very tough question about abortion.? The Iraqi insurgency?s access to short-range FROG missiles that ?can do grievous damage to American troops.? The murder, by an American platoon, of 36 Iraqi guards.

Not one of these exclusives appeared in the pages of The New Yorker, however. Instead, Hersh delivered them in speeches on college campuses and in front of organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and on public-radio shows like ?Democracy Now!? In most cases, Hersh attaches a caveat?such as ?I?m just talking now, I?m not writing??before unloading one of his blockbusters, which can send bloggers and reporters scurrying for confirmation.

See this too (or watch the video available at the link).

Seymour Hersh says the US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

"The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking," the reporter told an ACLU convention last week. Hersh says there was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher."

I most recently re-capped the various lies Hersh foisted on the world regarding Abu Ghraib here. (If you've never read it please don't respond to this post, and absolutely don't discuss Abu Ghraib ever.) I really can't comprehend what motivates this perverted little subhuman freak. He's lucky I'm a nice guy though - he's got that going for him. And he's lucky we've never met.

Strange that so many journalists worship him like a god.

Or maybe not.

Update: Did I mention that Hersh is a liar?