In a recent New York Times editorial, Maureen Dowd reviews Donald Rumsfeld’s handling of the recent exposure of torture in U.S. run prisons. Dowd writes:
By the end, Rummy was channeling Jack Nicholson’s Col. Jessup, who lashed out at the snotty weenies questioning him while they sleep “under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then question the manner in which I provide it.”
She doesn’t actually use Colonel Jessup’s line, “You can’t handle the truth,” but it lurks quietly in the background.