JOHN HINDERAKER HASN'T GOTTEN ANY BETTER

He was called "Ass Rocket" for many good reasons, such as this one. He now decides that Gen. Petraeus shouldn't have said that burning the Koran may endanger our troops and makes this lame comparison:

Still, is it not highly problematic when a senior military officer warns American citizens against exercising their undoubted First Amendment rights? This situation is different from the Koran-down-the-toilet story. We criticized news outlets at the time for endangering American troops, but that was mostly because the story was false. Presumably we can all agree that newspapers and magazines should not circulate false reports that endanger our troops. But what about accurate stories of Americans exercising their constitutional right to criticize Islam by burning Korans?

First of all, 1st Amendment rights are only marginally affected by truth or falsity and even then only where malice can be shown. Second, wingnuts attacked anyone who wrote or said things weren't peachy in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hinderaker himself attacked reports that we were killing civilians in Afghanistan.