I'm shocked they didn't blame the obvious culprit - gays.
And, while we're at Media Matters - according to Rush Limbaugh it's just like "good old American pornography."
...oh, and Juan Williams (in comments) informs us that NPR informed told who the REAL culprit is - Clinton! I should have known.
...georgemustgo provides the transcript:
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INSKEEP: . . . You said it's difficult for the secretary [of defense] to ensure in advance that terrible things won't happen. But the investigation found, as I understand it, a lack of training and a shortage of troops at the Abu Ghraib prison, and isn't it a secretary's responsibility to have people ready to do their jobs properly?
HIMMELFARB: Ultimately, it is his responsibility, and that is, that is certainly something that's going to be factored into things. But I think when you're, you're dealing with a war, when you're dealing with a constantly changing situation, it is simply inevitable that there are, there are going to be problems. And I think what we really need from our secretary of defense is to be sure that once he learns of those problems, that he takes action.
Now, certainly one thing I will say is that I believe, as, as a lot of folks on the, on the political right believe, that our military has been undermanned for many years, and it's very, very difficult to fight a war like this with a, a military that basically is, is Bill Clinton's military and a military that basically was formed during the days when we were all talking about the "war is peace" dividend.