Scheer and the Sorry Times

So the Los Angeles Times drops Bob Scheer. His crime? Being right, out front, and lucidly insightful from first to last about the dishonest seduction of the American people into the war in Iraq; and the immorality and practical harm to our standing in much of the world of carrying mass destruction half a world away for no good reason. (Have people forgotten that there was no good reason for the United States to attack Iraq, disgust with him and his vile regime not being a sufficient reason?)

Too predictable, they say about Scheer. George Bush isn't? Just look at the list of retained columnists in today's paper: none more predictable than the sorry Max Boot, who sees the corner turning in Iraq so often that he's in a perpetual propagandistic spin.

For Scheer, it seems, truth was no defense against the hatchets of the LATimes and Tribune. Pity.