Sen. Durbin has finally apologized for his Guantanamo remarks. Readers trapped in Timesworld will never know that some leading Dems may have provided the straw that broke the Senator’s back (we are assuming that the mayor of Chicago still has some swing in Senator Durbin’s home state of Illinois; Mayor Daley’s criticism of Sen. Durbin did not make the Times.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the Times presents Sen. Durbin as the victim of insensitive Republicans. . . .
Oh, you already guessed – the Times is ignoring the comments of the Anti-Defamation League on this topic as well. Evidently, inapt use of Holocaust comparisons is not a subject of interest to Times readers. Who knew?
Read the whole thing, especially if you’ve been trapped in the NYT coccoon.