Tom Blumer spends a June 5 NewsBusters post defending Mitt Romney from an Associated Press fact-check (one of two posts Blumer devoted to the subject). Blumer got a little more desperate to attack AP as he went along.
After the AP declared that, despite Romney’s assertion to the contrary, Obama has issued “no formal – or informal – apology” for America or “No saying “sorry” on behalf of America,” Blumer declared he could read Obama’s mind as towhat he really meant:
Oh please, guys. Obama never said “sorry,” so making it a point to recite to the nations of the world a litany of the allegedly horrible things we’ve done during the course of our history doesn’t count? Plenty of people on the left and the right have interpreted what Obama has done as the functional equivalent of “apologizing.”
Blumer’s evidence that “the left” has “interpreted” what Obama said as “apologizing” was a link to a commenter on a New York Times blog post who wrote that “Obama has done the right thing and apologized for his predecessor, Bush.”
Blumer has decided that this random commenter speaks for the entire “left,” apparently.
Blumer’s example of “the right” agreeing that Obama apologized is a hateful screed by Washington Times columnist Jeffrey Kuhner who smeared Obama as “a cultural Muslim who is promoting an anti-American, pro-Islamic agenda.”
Is Blumer endorsing the views of a man who has a long history of unhinged rhetoric? It sure seems like it.