On Sunday, May 24, Gen. David Petraeus said, in an interview on Radio Free Europe (RFE), that he backed the “responsible” closing of Gitmo and the end of torture during interrogations.
Less than a week later — on May 29, this past Friday — the General repeated those points on FOX News, going a step further to say, “When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions, we rightly have been criticized … ”
Other than Petraeus’ back and forth with FOX’s Martha MacCallum during their interview, I have seen no evidence that the right wing has responded.
Surely, I thought, I must be missing something.
So I checked Memeorandum, and found no related right-wing commentary, in the wake of either of the General’s interviews, RFE or FOX.
Next, I searched and scanned a random sample of right wing sites — including Hot Air, Hugh Hewitt, RedState, Michelle Malkin, Jules Crittenden, and Rush Limbaugh — and still I found no direct or indirect response to the General’s words, following either of his recent interviews.
Granted, two days prior to Petraeus’ RFE interview, Rush was his usual apoplectic self on Liz Cheney’s smackdown of Lawrence O’Donnell over “enhanced interrogation.” But nothing since then with respect to Petraeus’ remarks.
What am I missing here? If the right wing has responded to Petraeus — either agreeing or disagreeing with him — please, show me where. (Links are always appreciated.) If not, if the right wing has been as silent as they seem to be, will anyone confront them about their oversight?
(An unsolicited suggestion to CNN’s returning Campbell Brown: This seems like a ready-made topic for “No Bias. No Bull.”)
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UPDATE: Regular TMV commenter, “DaGoat,” is clearly a more competent searcher than I am. He offers this link to CK MacLeod at HotAir. I scanned MacLeod’s take on the matter and it struck me, on first blush, as a rather twisted (“tortured”?) read of Petraeus’ remarks. But at least MacLeod responded. That’s one.