Chas Freeman stays classy going out the door

Last week, I wrote a blog that highlighted a comment from National Intelligence Committee Chairman-nominee Charles (Chas) Freeman that showed the guy just wasn't real bright, not to mention in the back pocket of the Saudis. I didn't even mention that he's also a big fan of Mao and took more than a little bit of money from the Communist Chinese.

So I wrote what I wrote and a couple of people (thank you, Senator) read it. Even though a lot of newspapers (thank you, New York Times) didn't report it, there was enough of a buzz inside the Beltway about his questionable affiliations and even more questionable beliefs that he asked for his nomination be withdrawn.

In other words, he couldn't take the heat and got out of the kitchen.

So this is what ol' Chas had to say after his nomination was pulled:

"The tactics of the Israel lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and utter disregard for the truth."

Ah, it was the Jews. A typical Saudi/anti-Semitic comment. But I have a few questions for the former ambassador:

• Did you not say that Chinese waited too long to crack down on the protestors in Tienanmen Square?
• Did you not say that Iraq was an old country and that there were no problems between Shiites and Sunnis?
• Do you not work for a lobbying firm paid for by the Saudi government?
• Do you not buy what the House of Saud sells hook, line and sinker?

Not that I'll get any of these questions answered. So I guess I'll just leave it at this: stay cool, Chas. Stay cool.