It’s really hard to watch this clip, especially the part featuring Keith Olbermann without feeling a little bit like the time my wife woke me in the early hours of the morning (in Oz) telling me that the Twin Towers had been hit by suicide airplanes. It’s a moment when you realize with absolute clarity just how things stand. To Olbermann and company, the Surge is just something that happened; a lucky break. It is a theft of a kind that would make ghouls proud of their work.

Lies are not harmless, nor entertaining, nor simply part of the way the world works. They are ugly, treacherous, and hurtful. And it is a worthwhile task in life, however humble it may be, to try to hold fast to the true. Without hatred or rancor, though one may sometimes feel it; but as a man holding on to a life saver.