The Zone is pretty much immune to search engines.

Batiste was a major figure in the "retired generals who think the war sucks" flap, and was listed prominently in posts here that brought this up some time ago. He made ads for the anti-war military organization "VoteVets," was an advisory board member for that organization (doesn't seem to show up on the site now), and was interviewed enthusiastically by the mainstream media and people like Olbermann, and raised a lot of controversy.

In short, Batiste, who was not himself a leftist, was a hero to the Left for a long time. I'm sorry that everyone seems to have forgotten that, so the entire point of the post fell flat. At this point, it's like having to explain a joke.

I seem to spend a lot of time on that sort of thing.