[cross-posted at NPR Check]

[cross-posted at NPR Check]

One of history's great villains died yesterday, and NPR was on-call to provide its special math for the occasion . Robert Strange McNamara died yesterday and Monday's ATC featured three segments on his life and legacy - one by Daniel Schorr, the second by Mary Louise Kelly, and the last being Robert Siegel interviewing Errol Morris, McNamara filmmaker and documentarian.

Unity is its own virtue. It does not matter whether it leads to good things or bad things, just having a Government of National Unity is itself a good thing. How do I know this? NPR just told me so.

I'm driving home and make the mistake of turning on the radio. NPR is interviewing a historian (Robert something or other) to discuss the issue of whether all the Clinton "retreads" are really the change Obama promised.* After all, when John F. Kennedy came in he brought a new generation of advisors and (mostly) did not rely on Truman appointees. The historian does a generally good job of pointing out that the Clinton people are still a change from Bush, but then goes off for a ride on the Unity Pony and rides straight into stupid.

Would Shock
(apologies to Joni Mitchell, artist and poet and angel)

I came upon a child of Ron
He was looking to make private a road
And I asked him, what's with the tolls
And this he told me
I'm bowing down to Friedman's charm
I'm going to touch the invisible hand
I'm going to make private the land
I'm going to try a southern strategy
We are bloodlust
We are beholden
And we've got to go bulldoze
All of the garden

An Islamic saying:

"The first to reason by anaology was the Devil."

By that measure, and the measure of historians, yesterday's speech by President Bush regarding Iraq was beyond outrageous.

Blame it on Paul Krugman—he started it! (explanation below)

FWIW, by Buffalo Springfield

Last week, a songwriter here in Nashville asked our DFA group, "Where are OUR war protest songs? They're being written and recorded--but the radio still won't play them!"   Read more…

Bush has found a way to dumbfound his self-appointed court jesters in the leftysphere: he makes his own irony.