McChrystal Was Liberal, Accepted Gays

This almost makes us feel sorry for the guy: “[Stanley McChrystal] was also a social liberal who tolerated, nay, welcomed gay people into his inner circle, who disdained Fox News, and who grew increasingly frustrated with his reputation as Dick Cheney's hired assassin,” writes Marc Ambinder. (Keep in mind that in the Rolling Stone article, a member of McChrystal’s inner circle calls his dinner with Frenchmen “gay.”) Ambinder says that McChrystal went so far as to “ban Fox News from the television sets in his headquarters.” Ambinder notes that the special-forces units that McChrystal oversaw tend to be more accepting of gay soldiers than other units.