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Power Line - Two modest proposals

According to the MRC, among the three broadcast network evening news shows, only the NBC Nightly News discussed the report. The MRC also notes the hysterical reaction of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann:

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann ridiculed the finding of “WMD: weapons of minor discomfort,” snidely suggesting “you might get a burn if you rub these weapons directly onto your skin.” Olbermann condescendingly marveled: “Independent experts and the level-headed staggering in amazement tonight that deteriorated mustard gas cannisters, at least 15 years old and as much as 18 years old, could be pawned off by desperate politicians as some kind of rationale for the deaths of 2,500 American servicemen and women in Iraq.”

So Tom Lipscomb sends them a proposal that Keith prove this by rubbing it on his skin.

I’m glad he’s so comfortable with the nature of the chemicals’ deterioration that he can make light of this. And yet I bet he’d be pretty concerned if the US Army was incinerating aging chemical weapons stockpiles in his backyard.