THE CREEP SPEAKS – AT 11:12 A.M. ET:  It is too much to expect that the left-wing mainstream media will finally tell us the truth about South Africa, but the truth is coming out slowly through other sources.

First, the country is a disgrace.  It has one of the highest crime rates in the world and one of the highest rates of sexual violence against women.  In a survey of democracies, its foreign policy was rated dead last by Freedom House in New York in its concern for human rights.

And then we have the iconic "heroes" of South Africa, whose halo is carefully nurtured by an adoring media.  One of them is Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the Nobel Prize for some good work in the fight against apartheid, but who has gone downhill into the sewer of the international left ever since.  Consider this, from, ironically, the BBC:

Tony Blair and George W Bush should be taken to the International Criminal Court in The Hague over the Iraq war, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said.

Writing in the UK's Observer newspaper, he accused the former leaders of lying about weapons of mass destruction.

The Iraq military campaign had made the world more unstable "than any other conflict in history", he said.

Yeah, that World War I and World War II stuff was so soothing.

Mr Blair responded by saying "this is the same argument we have had many times with nothing new to say".

And...

Earlier this week, Archbishop Tutu, a veteran peace campaigner who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 in recognition of his campaign against apartheid, pulled out of a leadership summit in Johannesburg because he refused to share a platform with Mr Blair.

The former Archbishop of Cape Town said the US- and UK-led action launched against Saddam's regime in 2003 had brought about conditions for the civil war in Syria and a possible Middle East conflict involving Iran.

Really?  As Johnny Carson used to say, I did not know that.  Iraq made possible the Iranian nuclear-weapons issue and the civil war in Syria?  Talk about a stretch.

"The then leaders of the United States [Mr Bush] and Great Britain [Mr Blair] fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and drive us further apart. They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand - with the spectre of Syria and Iran before us," he said.

This is so crazy it's beyond crazy. 

He added: "The question is not whether Saddam Hussein was good or bad or how many of his people he massacred. The point is that Mr Bush and Mr Blair should not have allowed themselves to stoop to his immoral level."

Sure, who cares about the massacre of whole populations.  The left's casualness about genocide is a matter of record, and one of its disgraces.  We recall the silence of the left about the Cambodian genocide and, for that matter, the many genocides that took place in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Tutu is a vulgar embarrassment.  He is viciously anti-American and a notorious anti-Semite as well.  And yet, he is still protected by the press.

And, by the way, one of Khadaffi's strongest allies in Africa was Nelson Mandela, another icon about whom we're not permitted to ask questions.  Last time we heard from old Nelson he, too, was denouncing the United States.

These chaps may have done some good things in their lifetimes.  (Reminds me of the old adage that Mussolini made the trains run on time.)  But they've done some awful things as well, and I'm afraid the awful outweighs the good.  But we'll never be told it by The New York Times.

September 2, 2012