FBI: Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's parents have received threats

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32. People are noticing now, Cali Democrat:

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Deborah Weiss

Bergdahl showed all the symptoms of having an actual, living conscience, poor kid--a fatal flaw in the cartoon version of America we're obliged to inhabit nowadays. Certainly, his devout Presbyterian father has behaved the way one would expect a Christian of the Calvinist persuasion to behave (I used to teach adult Sunday School at a Presbyterian church in rural Illinois, so believe me, I know Presbyterians): attempting to act with integrity, kindness, self-effacement and decency, living the imitation of Christ which is the challenge Christian souls are supposed to at least try to meet.

Which leads to this observation: one of the ways in which we can confirm that Republicans don't actually believe in God is that after lynching this boy, none of them has publicly resigned from office, weeping and contrite and praying for mercy from the Almighty. None of them has given up his riches and gone to work in a soup kitchen in the desperate hope that there's still time for redemption after what he's done to the Bergdahl family. None of them is gazing in terror at the clear summer sky, anticipating the thunderbolt that a wrathful Christian God might reasonably decide to wield.

On the contrary: they're all clearly enjoying the hell out of this soul murder, which has played out just the way their operatives (those experts at working the refs and rolling the press) said it would. Moreover, they're all doubling down, including--or perhaps especially--the vile McCain, who has now issued a deranged statement accusing some members of the press (not his friends, mind you, but some of the outliers, like Tapper) of lying by reporting things he said in the past that aren't the same as the things he's saying now.

These awful, hateful, horrid men destroyed the kid and his family without so much as a twitch of Christian conscience. And what makes it worst is they did it all for a mind-blowingly trivial reason: to deprive the president of what would have been a pretty nice photo-op in an election year.

That's all. That's it. That's what was worth taking this boy and his mother and father and flaying them in public, humiliating them, exposing them to death threats and to the monstrous raw id (with its insatiable capacity for scalding rage) that is the Republican base. It's an election year, and that Rose Garden photo op might have played well in the boonies. It might even have been good for a fraction of a point or two in the polls. And so they unleashed their hate machine and ruined the kid's life.

It's beyond anything. I've rarely been so disgusted. I'll certainly remember it from now on, whenever I see one of these so-and-so's putting on that pious jowly Republican holy face and Gawd-blessing America.

I don't know if that is a real person's name, but it's a comment from a piece by Esquire's Charles Pierce.

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