McChrystal voted for Obama, 'disdained Fox News'

• 6/24, Atlantic: "The fact, revealed in Rolling Stone, that Gen. Stanley McChrystal voted

for President Obama may well have been a planted nugget designed to show how receptive McChrystal was to Obama's worldview. But several people who worked for, and continue to work for, Gen. McChrystal

• say that it's true. McChrystal told his subordinates about his ballot choice in November of 2008.

• More surprisingly, this choice did not surprise them.

McChrystal was a hard core operator, aggressive as hell...--but he 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. "...

• from Marc Ambinder article in The Atlantic, "McChrystal's social liberalism and the integration of gays in the military," via Rush Limbaugh show