Obama veers into the Daily Ditch
Even if you are an intelliegent man, reading Andrew Sullivan can make you stupid. It happened to President Obama this week. At his 100-day press conference, President Obama invoked Churchill rejecting the use of torture for interrogation in the days of the Blitz during World War II. Obama instructed the assembled multitude:
“blah, blah blah…”
Now if you’ve ever read Churchill or any competent history of World War II, you would have a pretty good idea that one thing Churchill never said in the course of long-life is: “We don’t torture.” As it happens, Churchill scholar Richard Langworth has now attested to the absence of the words from Churchill’s vast corpus.