Palm Beach Post Columnist Tom Blackburn

On June 13th I blogged about Randy Schultz the one Palm Beach Post columnist I always read and while we disagree alot, I do enjoy reading his columns.

I generally find the PB Post editorial page's liberalism irritating if not annoying. A perfect example of why can be seen in Tom Blackburn's June 27th column. Here is some excerpts from it.

There is no irony there. The uproarious demands for apologies are deliberate strategy. Complaining about how a subject is presented is a way to change the subject. The more you hear about offenses against etiquette, the more you should suspect that some touchy topic is being avoided.

Last week, they got Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., in their cross hairs and — by distracting the Sunday talk shows from serious topics into show biz — they extracted an apology from him.
Unlike Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, in attack mode, Sen. Durbin wasn't even trying to be offensive when he said that the FBI report from which he was about to read would — if you didn't know what it was about — call to mind some of the more tyrannical regimes of the past century. That comment was deemed insulting to our troops.

It sure is insulting Mr. Blackburn. Are you claiming that US troops have killed anyone at Guantanamo? We haven't, and that's plainly known. Senator Durbin compared Guantanamo to Pol Pot. Let me remind you the Khemer Rogue and Pol Pot murdered between 1.5 and 3 million Cambodian people. Somewhere in the vicinity of 30% of the nation's population.

Durbin wasn't trying to be offensive? That's bull crap Mr. Blackburn. Why not just read the letter without the far out editorial comment at the end? Can you explain that?

Senator Durbin's comments are defamatory. They also have nothing to do with Tom Delay or any other crooked member of congress.

While wasting a week on how insulting it was, the World's Greatest Deliberative Body didn't consider any implications of the FBI report. What the FBI said tracked with what the International Committee of the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and several Pentagon commissions headed by generals have said: There have been serious abuses of prisoners in U.S. custody.

Mr. Blackburn it was less than a week from the time of Mr. Durbin's insult to his apology and in between he tried to downplay it or stand by his comments. Also most of the MSM didn't even bother to cover this story for the first two days. None of the television networks did, it was the bloggers who called this to people's attention. Rightfully so, if people left or right in positions of power make outlandish comments they need to be called to task for it.

I'm going to email a link to Mr. Blackburn and see if he has any comment. Stay tuned.