S.F. vs. U.S.

Mickey Kaus Columnist
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Spikeless in San Fran: They aren’t celebrating Osama bin Laden’s killing in the Bay Area. … You can’t accuse them of treating Obama’s “assassination team” differently from Cheney’s. … P.S.: I agree with Obama that “we don’t need to spike the football.” But if he wanted to avoid unseemly, gloating victory celebrations, he could have counseled against them in his Sunday night speech, no? And avoidance of gloating isn’t the main reason for not releasing the gruesome photograph (nor is gloating the main argument for releasing it). Not very lawyerly to conflate the two issues. …

Mickey Kaus