About a year and half a go, at the 2004 Hot Docs festival, we watched a documentary called Control Room, an interesting documentary about Al Jazeera, the US attitude toward it and, broadly, journalism in the Iraq war. It went on to have a pretty wide release and got some attention.

One of the more interesting personalities — an American officer named Rushing — became increasingly frustrated with defending the military’s position on the war, and it was visible during the documentary. I heard later that he’d resigned from the USMC, and I read today that he’s gone to work for…wait for it…Al Jazeera.

Fox News, of course, was quick to attach the word traitor to the guy. Idiots.