James Taranto and Best of the Web points out MoveOn.Org’s latest spin piece:

MoveOn.org, along with an outfit called Win Without War, is sponsoring a series of "candlelight vigils" tonight to "honor" the servicemen who "have given their lives in service to our country." An e-mail announcing the event, from MoveOn's Peter Schuman, contained this statement: "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld diminished their deaths by calling the toll 'relatively small.' " Here is what Rumsfeld actually said:

If you take all of those patrols, and look at the number of incidents, they're relatively small. If you look at them from our standpoint, a single loss of life is large, and it's a life that's not going to be lived. I don't know how to calculate it or calibrate it for you any better than that.

It truly takes chutzpah for MoveOn.org to portray itself as "honoring" the troops when in fact it is using their deaths in an effort to score cheap political points.


There is so much spin going on these days I’m getting dizzy.