Human Wrongs

Via Atrios, we find this stunner in the Daily News:

He didn't free the slaves.

He didn't rid the world of Hitler.

He didn't even - like his father - preside over the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

Yet George W. Bush tells New Yorker writer Ken Auletta: "No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."

With stunners like that, no wonder he spends so little time with journalists.

That sound you just heard? That was my jaw crashing through the floor.

Perhaps Resident Bush has forgotten the name George Washington, the General-turned-President whose courage and genius won freedom for America.

And Thomas Jefferson, who made such minor contributions as writing the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.

And then there are the aforementioned Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bush I, though "presiding over the destruction of the Berlin Wall" seems a bit...kind. "Happened to be in office at the time" is more how I'd characterize it.

Still, given that Dubya may be the greatest enemy of human rights ever to reside in the White House, it's certainly fair to compare his father with him favorably.

Meanwhile, the article bravely continues:

Political guru Karl Rove claims that the job of journalists is "not necessarily to report the news. It's to get a headline or get a story that will make people pay attention to their magazine, newspaper or television more."

Is it just me, or has the Daily News become the Big Apple's antidote for Die Poste?

(/) Roland X
A quote like that is beyond .sig-parodying...