Says Wretchard, a man qualified to speak empirically, about an insult:

I'd have to say that Amnesty International's Report claiming the US is the world's worst human rights violator condemns itself far more than it does the United States. Anyone who has lived in the Third World or any of the places which Amnesty International purports to care about knows — and I mean knows for a fact — what police abuse, torture, arbitrary detention, etc. really are and that it cannot be compared in any wise to the "Gulag" in Guantanamo Bay. Moreover, anyone who has lived in such places knows that the last place where victims can find practical help is from Amnesty International.

After dinner last night I left the television on while I worked from across the apartment. The O'Reilly Factor came on and Bill O'Reilly interviewed two men, one rightly dismissing Amnesty International and its propaganda; the other excusing it. At the end of the segment an understandably disgusted O'Reilly tried to establish one common notion with the second man, that of the Geneva convention meaning what it says, only to receive an answer out of a freshman-curriculum philosophy class: What really constitutes a uniform? said the man, straight-faced. If he had been on the other end of a telephone line, O'Reilly would and should have hung up.

Paging Bono of rock band U2: in your future albums' liner notes, please direct fans to organizations whose sanctimonious work is not totally discrepant to both their charter and the substance of your song lyrics.