The Letters "GOP" Spell "Shameless."

Everything 21^st century Republicans say is a calculated and shameless political lie.  Everything.  If they happen to speak the truth, it’s merely coincidental.

Here, for example, are real headlines from the same right-wing source.

10/13/13: "Horrible. Obama to Leave US POW to Rot in Afghanistan After Withdrawal."

6/3/14: "Figures. Obama Administration Promoted Bergdahl to Sergeant After He Reportedly Joined Taliban."

The Republicans have even scrubbed the previous, completely contradictory statements they made about the POW. Those erstwhile lies are “no longer operative,” as Nixon’s henchmen used to say. Down the memory hole of a compliant corporate media they must go. “The hypocrisy manages to be both stunning yet also banal,even predictable,” wrote Will Bunch. “It's not rocket science. Sgt. Bergdahl was never a living, breathing human to these people -- just what the director Alfred Hitchcock would have called a ‘MacGuffin,’ an insignificant prop that exists to drive the real storyline, and that storyline is tearing down Obama as an un-American pretender to the White House. In 2013, Obama was a coward who didn't understand our most basic principle of ‘no man left behind.’ In 2014, Obama was a treasonous dictator who put the nation at risk to rescue an undeserving deserter who should be court-martialed, maybe executed. The two narratives are ridiculously, laughably contradictory except for one element: They both involve a president named Barack Hussein Obama.”

Even that swine Oliver effing North weighs in.