Guest Comment: "Rick Santorum and the Ankle-Breaker of Truth."

LGFWatch reader RJP writes:

A well-known member of LGF used to quote in Greek, 'Do you prefer the water or the wave?' Her meaning was translated, Do you prefer to get your news prepackaged by the 'LLL' or do you prefer it raw, the way (she asserted) that Charles Johnson supplied it?

For sheer naiveté this noble view of Charles' pursuit of distortion,
strawmannery and exaggeration has few equals. Charles' news is a wave of raw
stuff, surely, much like a wave of raw sewage after a Los Angeles rain. Case
in point: the baffling statement of Rick Santorum on the Senate Floor
Thursday, May 19, comparing Democrats' efforts to save the filibuster to
Hitler's occupation of Paris. A grossly inappropriate Hitler comparison!
Surely Charles, wave-making scion of Poseidon, will post a strongly worded
condemnation of Santorum. Charles did, after all, limply criticize Pat
Robertson for comparing judges to 'bearded terrorists.' Charles? Charles?

Well, perhaps a Hitler comparison doesn't merit Charles' attention. Except,
wait, there's this from just over two months ago:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=14921&only=yes
3/3/2005: Byrd Backpedals

Robert Byrd seems to realize in some dim fashion that he may have crossed a
line, with a pitifully weak, dishonest denial: Byrd Denies Comparing
Republicans to Nazis.

So there's Charles up in arms, outraged! And whom does he quote in his pull
from Yahoo News?

WASHINGTON - [snip]
Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the Senate’s No. 3 Republican,
called for Byrd to retract his comments, saying they “lessen the credibility
of the senator and the decorum of the Senate.”...

Wow, a two-fer in the world of hypocrisy, Santorum and Charles for quoting
him.

We're waiting for Charles to perk up and protest Santorum's Hitler
comparison, which to any objective observer is worse than anything
contemplated by Robert Byrd. In the meantime, it seems the
pick-and-choose-your-outrage ocean of Charles Johnson is a little lacking in
waves, eh? There's a term for this condition: 'ankle-breaker.' Charles
Johnson, the Ankle-Breaker of Truth.

Charles' silence up to now might not come as any surprise to those who
follow LGF. We've documented before how Charles turns a deaf ear to blatant
and repeated domestic anti-Semitism on his own side of the political stripe
in favor of, say, the earth-shaking scandal of Agence France Press choosing
to run photos of political leaders against a backdrop of the Israeli flag,
implying (we guess) that AFP is trying to pin the Iraq war on Israel.

The clock is ticking on the 'wave.' Any day now, it should be lapping around
our ankles.