Krauthammer and the wisdom of Bugsy Siegel

Yesterday on Fox News, Charles Krauthammer deliberately perpetuated the kind of spooky, demented, conspiracy-laden gobbledygook that helped so much in dooming his party last week: 

Of course [the affair] was being held over Petraeus’s head, and the sword was lowered on Election Day. You don’t have to be a cynic to see that as the ultimate in cynicism. As long as they needed him to give the administration line ... everybody was silent. And as soon as the election’s over, as soon as he can be dispensed with, the sword drops and he’s destroyed.

For starters, Krauthammer's cynicism theory is more of a simpleton's theory. It assumes ...

*that Petraeus is a man of no honor whatsoever; that he was willing to lie to a congressional committee to conceal his preceding dishonor of adultery, which, by the way, he promptly and freely admitted.

*that the White House is so extraordinarily stupid that it would fire Petraeus just prior to his next congressional testimony.

*that Congress wouldn't simply recall Petraeus to testify?--which the Senate Intelligence Committee just did?

Q: Will Krauthammer himself do the honorable thing and apologize to the White House, once Petraeus dismantles Krauthammer's "cynical" conspiracy theory?

Q2: How is it that Krauthammer hasn't yet grasped that all the elaborate, dunderheaded darkness that Krauthammer & Friends so foolishly persists in casting over the Obama administration isn't helping the anti-Obama cause? It's terrific entertainment; Krauthammer and his ideological pals are a priceless laughingstock. But, to loosely borrow from Bugsy Siegel, they're only killing themselves.

Comments

[Janicket]

Never forget that most of the people who inhabit the right-wing alternative reality have come to believe wholly and unreservedly in it -- and why not? They do not expose themselves to anything outside the bubble; if contradictory matters are forced upon their attention they promptly dismiss such as lies told by the evil liberals; the tenets and proponents of conservatism as they envision it cannot be wrong, merely insufficiently adhered to; and so on.

For Krauthammer and his ilk to admit any reality not consonant with their darkly apocalyptic worldview would be to see that worldview shatter, and they cannot permit that to happen.

[Monty]

Eric Cantor new of the affair long before the election so it is not like the Republicans had no clue - this was not information coming out when it was too late to affect the election as they would like to think on Fox "News". And Petraeus can't run away from testifying to Congress if they really want him...it's the usual find/say anything to show how bad these communist Democrats are and not try and fix the real issues looming ahead. What a crock.