MSNBC tows the WOT party line

I happened to be watching MSNBC this afternoon, when the topic of Barack Obama's decision to close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay came up. Their military analyst, the normally quite insightful Col. Jack Jacobs, repeated the oft-quoted line that Gitmo is home to the "worst of the worst" terrorists...Of course Col. Jacobs, like most commentators when they talk about the folks locked up at Guantanamo, failed to mention the innocent men also imprisoned there, like the 17 Chinese Muslims who have been cooling their heels in Cuba since we scooped them up in Afghanistan in 2002 - the ones we long ago decided never committed, or planned to commit, any terrorist acts, against the US, or troops or our interests.

It sounds good to go on TV and paint Gitmo as a pit of vile terrorists, unfortunately the facts don't quite fit the picture.