The runner-up, Pete Hegseth, the chairman of the conservative group Vets for Freedom, and a contributor to the “National Review” Online, with this comment: “laying aside the debate over what is and what isn‘t torture, it‘s hard to argue with eight-plus years of safety since 9/11.” Swing and a miss; eight plus years wouldn‘t be until like late November this year, when it would be eight years and a day since the death of the last Anthrax victim, or 9/11 was in May of 2001, or Mr. Bush wasn‘t present during 9/11. As the blogger Atrius note, “NRO contributor attempts to count to eight, fails.”
That post was actually by Thurs.