Jeff Goldberg needs some new material

Seriously, this whole “implying my political opponents are terrorist sympathizers” thing is getting way old. He just pulled the same old trick in his latest post, except with Saddam Hussein instead of Hezbollah.

A small indication of the political leanings of some Aspen attendees: At a session with Jim Wallis, Michael Cromartie and our very own Ross Douthat, Michael Gerson pushed back against Wallis’s contention that the Iraq war was immoral because it caused the loss of innocent life. Gerson noted that the previous regime in Iraq was responsible for terrible human rights violations, including genocide, and he went on to say that Saddam was “comparable to Pol Pot.” This was apparently a controversial assertion, because it provoked boos and grumbling in the audience. I would note for the record that there seemed to be no Kurds in the audience.

The title of that post: “Michael Gerson Blasts Saddam, Gets Booed.”

See what he did there? Gerson tried to defend the Iraq War as some kind of glorious moral endeavor despite all the carnage that’s ensued, because Saddam Hussein was a very bad man. Of his two assertions, the latter is obviously true and the former is patently absurd. But the only possible explanation for the booing is that the audience disagrees with both assertions and thinks Saddam Hussein was awesome!

Seriously, this is getting really, really old. And lazy. And to show how stupid this is, I’m going to play the exact same game. See, Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq waged war against Iran in the ’80’s. So by booing the crowd’s booing of Saddam Hussein, Goldberg reveals that he is actually an apologist for the anti-American Iranian government! My logic is unassailable!