From a reader:
I’m generally willing to give Nick Berg’s dad a free pass on his bizarre
commentary. I literally can’t even complete the thought of my son being
murdered in the way that his was. I think it would just about drive me
insane, and I wouldn’t be operating rationally, and its likely that I’d
say some crazy things, too. And I think that is what is happening with
Nick Berg’s dad, so I don’t want to see people harshly criticize someone
suffering as deeply as he is.
But the question is, if we can agree that the guy is being
(understandably) irrational, then why are people putting microphones in
front of his face??? Once his comments are out there, which are
perfectly consistent with the sort of things that ANSWER, etc. has been
saying all along, I think it needs to be refuted and exposed for the
silliness that it is. I don’t want it to be done, but the news
organizations who are putting his comments out there are almost forcing
our hands. Why not let the Berg family mourn in at least some amount of
privacy? I suspect its at least in part because the media likes the
anti-Bush message.