Known By The Company He Keeps (Local Edition)

I watched Mike Pintek again last night. He had on one of his favorite conservative pundits, Dr Harvey Kushner, contributing editor to a website called Family Security Matters.

They, of course, were pounding the Edwards story - all while (do I really have to say it?) excusing Senator McCain's similarly checkered marital past. Typical and not at all suprising.

I wanted to take a look see at this "Family Security Matters" site. In my search I found this at Hullabaloo. Digby wrote a year or so ago:

I've been getting a lot of emails about this group Family Security Matters which boasts such right wing luminaries as Barbara Comstock, Monica Crowley, Frank Gaffney, Laura Ingraham and James Woolsey among others on its board of directors. It seems like they are just another of the dozens of wingnut welfare programs devoted to throwing good money after bad keeping conservative operatives gainfully employed.

The emails I'm getting say they are busily scrubbing articles all over the place. When you look at what they've left up you have to wonder what could possibly be so bad they have to scrub it.

Then digby shows us an example of something that's been scrubbed. By someone named Philip Atkinson, it talks about the limits of democracy:

The inadequacy of Democracy, rule by the majority, is undeniable – for it demands adopting ideas because they are popular, rather than because they are wise.

And what George W. Bush's only wise choice should have been regarding Iraq:

The wisest course would have been for President Bush to use his nuclear weapons to slaughter Iraqis until they complied with his demands, or until they were all dead.

With an illustration of the "inadequacy of Democracy" sure to follow:

But if he did this, his cowardly electorate would have instantly ended his term of office, if not his freedom or his life.

" Cowardly electorate"? Here's more of Atkinson's political genius:

By elevating popular fancy over truth, Democracy is clearly an enemy of not just truth, but duty and justice, which makes it the worst form of government.

Atkinson's final solution to Bush's "Democracy" problem is simple. Follow the example of Julius Caesar:

If President Bush copied Julius Caesar by ordering his army to empty Iraq of Arabs and repopulate the country with Americans, he would achieve immediate results: popularity with his military; enrichment of America by converting an Arabian Iraq into an American Iraq (therefore turning it from a liability to an asset); and boost American prestiege while terrifying American enemies.

Which, of course, leads to the inevitable:

He could then follow Caesar's example and use his newfound popularity with the military to wield military power to become the first permanent president of America, and end the civil chaos caused by the continually squabbling Congress and the out-of-control Supreme Court.

Finally:

For only an America united under one ruler has the power to save humanity from the threat of a new Dark Age wrought by terrorists armed with nuclear weapons.

For some reason that column was scrubbed by Family Security Matters. I wonder why.