It seems that the pbulication of Secretary Rumsfeld's memoir has kicked off a kind of all-purpose "Hate Rumsfeld" week all over National Public Radio, and nowhere so much as The Takeaway.

I suppose, that insofar as The Takeaway is a "viewpoint" program, and is understaood as being not so much a news program, but rather as a kind of long-runnning opinion editorial on the part of John Hockenberry, his producres and co-hosts, what we hear is what we get.

Surely, The Takeaway isn't really a "news" program, is it? Because the whiny, silly, long-winded complaining about Rumsfeld and President George W. Bush couldn't possibly qualify as serious news.

By the way, that was not a Sex Pistols rendition of "My Way;" it was a solo effort of former Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious. Chraming choice of soundtrack, I must say.

What sort of soundtrack might there be for an announcement of an Obama memoir's publication?

Honestly, I think that much of John Hockenberry's complaining about Rumsfeld is nearly subconcsious. In the liberal salons of the New York/public media elites, it is probably taken as a given that, well, everybody knows that Rumsfeld was the worst Defense Secretary in history, right?

Too bad that such arrogance prevents a wider audience from hearing what is actually in Rumsfeld's book. While we instead are treated to Sid Vicious' ghoulish and pre-suicidal "My Way."