Roger Ailes has found a particularly stunning Kaus moment.
(Don’t bother to keep reading if you’re making a noble attempt to avoid irrelevant trivia about the candidates; there’s nothing terribly important here.)
If you go to Kausfiles right now, you’ll see this headline:
Where Kerry Slept: Not on the Mall! Old issue resolved; Agnew was right.
Read down. Kaus unequivically states:
Where Kerry Slept: John Kerry didn’t throw his own medals over the wall in that 1971 antiwar protest and he didn’t sleep on the Mall with his Viet Vet buddies either. He snuck off and slept in a Georgetown townhouse.
He links to this piece by Kerry supporter Robert Sam Anson. Problem is, the piece doesn’t say Kerry slept in the townhouse. It says that he had a drink in the townhouse, and that he told his friend that he could sleep there.
Kaus goes on to accuse Kerry of lying and conning reporters, based on his own misreading.
In an update, we lear that Anson personally called Kaus and corrected him. He told Kaus that he has no idea where Kerry slept. (I’d imagine that Anson pointed out that the story doesn’t say what Kaus claims it says, but that’s sheer conjecture on my part.)
After this call, Kaus now has no source to back up his accusation that Kerry didn’t sleep on the Mall. And he has no grounds whatsoever on which to contest Kerry’s description of the charge as unsubstantiated. He’s got nothing.
Kaus, of course, apologized for smearing the Senator and promised that he will carefully read his source documents, rather than jump to conclusions. And to avoid misleading his readers, he’s carefully corrected the headline on Kausfiles to read… um…
Where Kerry Slept: Not on the Mall! Old issue resolved; Agnew was right.
OK, he didn’t actually apologize. Or even sort-of apologize. Instead, he argues that it was likely, in his own eyes, that Kerry slept there. On those grounds, he calls Kerry a liar and Agnew correct.
So, yeah. I don’t like Mickey Kaus.
Ahhh.. one of very personal favorite logical fallacies..
Argumentum ad ignorantiam
:)
Could someone please tell me why Kerry’s actions 30 years ago are such an issue and not GWB’s? If there is so much reporting on where Kerry may, or may not, have slept in the 1970s, why isn’t there a good investigation in the SCLM of why GWB was grounded around that time?
I’m with das. It seems that the waste of a million bucks training a non-flying awol pilot during wartime is more weighty than where an unelected war hero veteran spent the night one night. Maybe it’s just me.
CS
I guess the logic is that Kerry talks about how his Vietnam service and his later activism prepared him for the presidency, whereas Bush never talks about how skipping his National Guard physical and being an alcoholic prepared him.
It helps if you stop trying to think like an intelligent person and try to place yourself in Mickey Kaus’s mind. I picture a small dark room wallpapered with pictures of John Kerry, on each of which Kaus has cleverly drawn fake mustaches and devil horns. But you need to create your own image.
Where does Mickey Kaus sleep?
With the fishes one hopes.
das,
The problem is: GWB is not on the record denying or defining what the “grounding” was all about.
Kerry’s entire career starts from the premise of his war stories, his denying he threw the medals, his saying he did throw the medals, his saying they were only ribbons, his recanting that statement…
I agree, it’s all frivolous… but notice that most discussions around Kerry are saturated in the mundane and unimportant because he can’t walk a straight line.
Take the Bush DUI. The political last minute hurrah before the 2000 election amounted to nothing because he admitted it fully, took responsibility and submitted to the consequences. If he denied it or gave it wiggle room it would haunt him to this day.
He can claim right-wing attack all he wants… but Kerry’s ghosts are Kerry’s doings.
Could someone please tell me why Kerry’s actions 30 years ago are such an issue and not GWB’s?
Das,
What the media are doing to Kerry, this piling on an non-issues, in most cases completely bogus fabrications, while completely ignoring the obscene lying of Bush and his camp is unbelievable.
I’m sad and terrified it’s starting to look like what the media whores did to Gore in 2000. Same modus operandi, same indignation over silly (or false) allegations, while allowing the GOP to get away with murder.
WE don’t have mass media in this country. We have a huge Republican propaganda machine instead.
WE don’t have mass media in this country. We have a huge Republican propaganda machine instead.
sigh
just curious (I’ll kick myself later for asking):
What were the “silly (or false) allegations” that the “media whores” made about Gore?
I’ve only got a minute right now, but to name one, repeatedly saying Gore claimed to have invented the internet. There are many others.
Justin,
Go read any issue of the Daily Howler over the last 3 years.
www.dailyhowler.com
Justin asks:
“just curious (I’ll kick myself later for asking):
What were the “silly (or false) allegations” that the “media whores” made about Gore?”
Go to dailyhowler.com, and type in al gore election in the search engine.
That’ll keep you busy for a few weeks.
Neither Kerry’s actions 30 years ago nor Bush’s are “issues”. They’re “scandals”, something entirely different. An “issue” is a controversial topic by which members of the public identify which candidate is more closely aligned with his or her own constituency. A “scandal” is a proxy for issues, in which political operatives provide members of constituencies with excuses for voting for the candidate they’ve already chosen based on the issues. The scandal allows these voters to pretend that they’re above the petty, self-interested partisanship of constituency politics, even while participating in it.
If a candidate is “strong”—i.e., has locked up many large, politically powerful constituencies, then scandals have little effect on the fealty of those constituencies, and the candidate is said to be “made of teflon”. On the other hand, if the candidate is “weak”—i.e., has alienated more constituencies than he or she has retained the loyalty of—then even trivial scandals can be grounds for serious repercussions.
When a country is roughly evenly divided, as it has been (along partisan lines) in the US for most of the last fifteen years, scandals become enormously important as seemingly non-partisan rallying cries for the partisan faithful—even as their effectiveness in persuading anyone declines. Who, today, after all—in this era of war, economic turmoil, and social division—chooses a presidential candidate based on their long-ago personal lives?
I did as licanin said… I got:
A post blasting Noonan, Mathews and other pundits for being partisan on Gore (suprise their pundits not news people)
A post blasting Fox News for being partisan on Gore (suprise)
A post blasting the NYtimes op-ed, Gumbel and Kriston op-ed for being tough on Gore
A post blasting Sammon for dissing Gore
…
The Daily Howler seems to have a problem with people holding opinions that are less than savory about Gore…
Does he ever show any “NEWS” that slanted against Gore? Where are the “media whores?” Pundits are by definition “media whores” so what’s the problem here?
20 years of yelling liberal media over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over has brought us to this point. It is the explanation for the discrepancy between the level of seriousness of 30-years-ago Kerry versus 30-years-ago Bush. That, plus Bush IS preznit, therefore it would kind of make the whole country look bad if we all found out that he was less than honorable at any point in his past. Kerry, on the other hand, is the dude TRYING to become president, and just like the She Bangs guy and any of the contestants on any number of reality TV shows, it is FUN to make the guy trying to win look like a fucking asshole. It’s just funny, I dunno. Watching people fail and tumble from on high is our national pastime. Do I need to offer examples?
20 years of yelling liberal media over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over has brought us to this point. It is the explanation for the discrepancy between the level of seriousness of 30-years-ago Kerry versus 30-years-ago Bush. That, plus Bush IS preznit, therefore it would kind of make the whole country look bad if we all found out that he was less than honorable at any point in his past. Kerry, on the other hand, is the dude TRYING to become president, and just like the She Bangs guy and any of the contestants on any number of reality TV shows, it is FUN to make the guy trying to win look like a fucking asshole. It’s just funny, I dunno. Watching people fail and tumble from on high is our national pastime.
If he denied it or gave it wiggle room it would haunt him to this day.
Yeah like the way he decisively handled the cocaine rumors. Well done indeed.
Bob Somersby (of Daily Howler) meticulously documents when REPORTERS got their facts wrong. It is usually easy to trace the source: helpful faxes from RNC. There were a lot of misconceptions (lies) that REPORTERS spread about Gore and pundits kepts repeating long after they were debunked. Besides Internet (Gore claimed to “had initiative” because he authored a critical legislation, not “invention”, which of course would not be correct).
Besides, when pundits are claiming that their opinions are based on facts and get their facts wrong, they are liars too.
Ted, I’d like to stamp your MKDS bonus points card now, please.
Nine more like this and you earn a free haircut!
check out Kaus’ latest item:
“Let me get this straight. Gore lost the 2000 election by, like, 17 votes and he had $6 million sitting in the bank? Couldn’t he have done something with that money that would have put him over the top?”
If you read the NY Times article it says “money is left over from an account he created in 2000 to pay for his battle over the recount of votes there four years ago.”
So this was a post-campaign account that couldn’t have helped put Gore “over the top”.
I think Kaus just makes stuff up. How does he have any credibility?
I was going to suggest that it was probably pointless pointing Justin to data, but I see he’s made that point for me.
Exactly… like the cocaine rumors. Bush denied it and it’s gone away.
Let’s see this in real time on Google:
Notice how the only news source to publish anything recently about Bush and cocaine is “Conspiracy planet”… and it’s an editorial piece.
Notice how almost every article about Kerry and medals is about the contraversy from legitimate news sources.
What’s the lesson here?
Justin, you obviously didn’t try very hard. As several have already noted, the Daily Howler documents reporters in great detail, particularly, from 2000, the Times’ Kit Seelye and someone whose name i forget from the WaPo.
Among the complete and total pieces of bullshit these reporters printed and reprinted and reprinted were: Gore claimed to have invented the internet; Gore claimed to have discovered Love Canal; Gore lied about singing union songs as a child; Gore lied about the cost of prescription drugs; Gore changed his clothing style because of Naomi Wolf; Gore sighs too loudly; Gore grew up in affluent surroundings; and on and on and on and on.
Furthermore, on what basis do you think that pundits (or Fox News) don’t have an obligation to honesty? If you don’t like Gore’s policies, define why you don’t; but as a news reporter or pundit, to keep repeating RNC spin points about Gore in lieu of doing any actual journalistic work is both lazy and dangerous to our democracy.
Meanwhile, Ted, you’re right on the money about Kaus. My own theory is that the welfare reform issue convinced him that America’s biggest problem is ’70s style liberalism, and his brain has locked there permanently.
Once an intelligent iconoclast, Kaus is now nothing but an idiot.
Justin, what planet are you from? Bush never “denied” anything about cocaine - he simply said that he did things that he’s now not very proud of.
Not a denial at all.
Meanwhile, are you really as obtuse as John Isbell suggests? The choice of whether to pursue a story or not is a choice made by editors and reporters and publishers; if there weren’t a profound pro-bush bias operating in the media, we’d have seen a lot more digging into Bush’s past.
But there is, so we didn’t.
Why is Mickey Kaus jealous of John Kerry but not George Bush?
Why do middle aged guys like Kaus still try to rebel by being conservative instead of liberal, thye way people of Kerry’s generation did? haven’t they noticed that the cons are now the dominant paridigm?
Justin,
If Daily Howler doesn’t satisfy you, this Rolling Stone article sums it up nicely.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=14976
The media misrepresented what Gore said about Love Canal. Concord High School students in New HAmpshire, who were there for the speech, were so angered by the misquotes, they put out their own press release and campaigned for retractions. I don’t think they got them. A lesson learned about the media.
“Notice how the only news source to publish anything recently about Bush and cocaine is “Conspiracy planet”… and it’s an editorial piece.
Notice how almost every article about Kerry and medals is about the contraversy from legitimate news sources.
What’s the lesson here?”
The lesson here seems to be that so-called legitimate news sources have standards no higher than “Conspiracy Planet” when it comes to spreading smears about Kerry.
>>Take the Bush DUI. The political last minute hurrah before the 2000 election amounted to nothing because he admitted it fully, took responsibility and submitted to the consequences. If he denied it or gave it wiggle room it would haunt him to this day.
What? First of all, Bush tried his hardest to keep this secret. Real honor and dignity would have suggested self-disclosure. Second, when asked this question, in for instance the Dallas Morning News, he lied. Third, when the story came out, he did not stand up and accept responsibiluty. Bush and his lackeys attacked the sources of the story, and essentially played out the clock.
And the story was instrumental in Bush losing the 2000 election.
Good job, Brother Ted.
If Kaus posts like he’s still enamored of being allowed to write snarky comments. How long has he been doing this?
ChrisS
Poobah, 2nd order
MKDS
Better update that link; Kaus is currently bashing Al Gore for what he didn’t do four years ago.
The Observer writer is Anson, not Ansen.
Ansen is the last part of the name of David Jansen, who played ‘The Fugitive’, who was on the run from a desperately unfair charge. So the conspiracy comes around after all, come to think of it.
Please have someone tell Kaus to read the Tom Oliphant oped for 4/27/04 in the Boston Globe. Oliphant was there 33 years ago as a reporter, saw Kerry remove ribbons (referred to as “medals” by Sen. Stu Symington at Kerry’s appearance) from his pocket, bunch them up in his hand and throw them over the fence. A couple wheelchair-bound vets asked him to toss their medals. Later some Gold Star Mothers (who had lost their sons in Viet Nam) asked him to toss stuff.
Eye witness. Kerry threw away medals. Ribbons are called medals.
Where’s the damn controversy—except in the faxes from the RNC and the SCLM’s willing whores’ banging away at it?
Why do they concentrate on minutia, the trivial? Because it’s easy? Too damn hard to make actual issues understandable and interesting?
Jawbone, it’s not the RNC — it’s Charlie Gibson. Charlie Gibson, for goodness’ sake. What has the world come to? Senator Kerry says, ‘God, they’re doing the work of the Republican National Committee.’
My favorite SCLM Gore “lie” was the one accusing him of having falsely claimed to be the inspiration for the protagonist in “Love Story.” Not only had he never said that, but author Erich Segal actually said that the character was indeed modeled on Gore and another of his students.
Hey, Kaus has more integrity in his left ear than Kerry in his whole impotent body(google Kerry, prostate). Kerry was in Washington to throw away hos medals and to call his fellow American soldiers “childkillers” and “rapists”. This Kerry scumbag called American soldiers war criminals and you Democrats want him to be the Commander in Chief of our troops now fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. The man with no loyalty? Those kids are dying trying to destroy evil and secure our nation. They are getting wounded. This is war. War is not the time to play political games like Kerry did in the 70’s. Kerry used the soldiers fighting in Vietnam for his own political goals. Kerry has blood on his hands. Maybe you Democrats are blind, but I assure you middle America will NEVER make Kerry Commander in Chief after he stabbed American soldiers in Vietnam. It’s not fair to ask our boys who are drying for us to accept such a devious anti-war protester, anti-soldier commander in chief. We would be spitting in our troops face. We middle Americans will never do that to our troops. We love our troops. If you know what that means. We love them. We respect them. We honor them. They are giants amongst you democratic backstabbers. Our soldiers are strong. Kerry made them weak with his protesting in Vietnam. They are strong now. We middle Americans will NEVER allow liberals to weaken our army AGAIN like you did in the 70’s. Our army kills our enemies. Kerry would be a stain on the honor of our military. Be a patriot, support our boys. MAY THE UNITED STATES REIGN SUPREME FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
Keep it coming, Ricky V. I love it.
One request though: could you go to some websites where swing voters hang out and post there too? Maybe some newspaper bulletin boards? The Slate Fray? Not sure where the best places would be, but I’m sure they’re out there somewhere.
At the risk of speaking to a brick wall, I have one more comment for Justin, regarding the assertion that “GWB is not on the record denying or defining what the “grounding” was all about.”
Bullshit.
Bush has still not released all of his records. He gave the press a big pile of stuff which his advisors vetted twice before releasing, but he did not take the far simpler step of signing a release form to allow his full military record to be reviewed… as John Kerry did… and as John McCain did in 2000 when the Bush campaign was making false claims about his mental health. As it stands, we have only Bush’s word that this is the complete file, and many key pieces of information that would be present in any military file are missing, indicating that… yep, you guessed it… Bush lied.
In addition, portions of the “complete” file Bush gave to the press were redacted… including the name of the other man who was grounded at the same time as Bush… a man who turned out to be Bush friend and Saudi family contact James Bath. Now, why do you suppose that kind of thing would be such a threat to national security that Bush would have it deleted from documents he then claimed represented his “complete” record. Could it be that Bush was interested in suppressing potentially embarassing information?
So, let’s review: Bush says he’ll release all his records on MTP. He pretends to do so but does not actually do so. He edits the things he does present. He then accuses Kerry of not releasing his records. Kerry signs a release allowing public scrutiny of all his military records. Finding nothing but a stellar record in Kerry’s files, Bush allies (and hacks like Kaus) instead attack Kerry’s record with vague accusations and unsupported suggestions.
And the final step… people like Justin stick they’re fingers in their ears and say “La la la la la! I can’t hear you! La la la la la!” The cycle is complete.
I would have thought by now, especially given that ole Feiler Faster Thesis, Kaus would have had an extended stay in a country home near akron or somesuch and then would have written a book called “blinded by the right, well not exactly the right, more like my own pretension” and gone on to fame and fortune as a staight talker on Air America…..
I would have thought by now, especially given that ole Feiler Faster Thesis, Kaus would have had an extended stay in a country home near akron or somesuch and then would have written a book called “blinded by the right, well not exactly the right, more like my own pretension” and gone on to fame and fortune as a staight talker on Air America…..
Mickey Kaus sleeps with dead goats! Pass it on!
Jeremy,
”brick wall”
I’m not sure why you think you’re talking to a brick wall? I’ve posted several responses to some valid questions. Is it because I haven’t accepted your opinion?
explitive
I stand by my statement: “Bush is not on the record denying or defining what the ‘grounding’ was all about.” If you read my posts above you’ll see that I’m not defending Bush… (although I am admittedly pro-Bush). The purpose of my post was to demonstrate that Kerry’s medal flap is more prominent news because he did deny and define his history in multiple and sometimes conflicting ways.
records
Should Bush release all of his records? I’ll be honest about it. Sure. But again, my point is this: Kerry has said many things on records that have differed over the last 30 years which is why it becomes headline news and Bush’s record has not been prominently featured.
JP,
Thank you for the Slate fray hint. I’m on it and getting quite some attention. I think there are a lot of independents who are looking for reasons to vote for Bush, because they absolutely loath Cut and Run Kerry. I’m trying to provide them with reasons. Bush has made America strong again. He is worth reelecting.
While we’re on the subject of war atrocities, try a Google on the name “Lieutenant William Calley” or “My Lai”.
Or, for that matter, read the recent series in the Toledo Blade about atrocities committed by American soldiers in Vietnam.
I’m frankly surprised that any honest person denies that these things happened. Maybe John Kerry didn’t commit them, maybe his mates didn’t either, but by God somebody sure did.
Kaus lost it a long time ago.
And Fray is infested with vandals, which is why I don’t go there very much these days.
Justin:
Thank you for saving me some time in the future, by teaching me never to respond to your posts. As others have stated, Somersby is serious about documenting his allegations. I guess you just don’t want to see.
Licanin,
Wish I had all the time in world to respond at a moments notice. But since you persist… so will I. Somersby it is. Below are responses to his post today.
LET THEM EAT PEANUT BUTTER
First, somersby has issues with the NY Times publishing a letter to the editor. (If I had a nickel) Pick up any newspaper and you find outrageous letters to the editor. Yes, Somersby is correct that the conterversy is about Kerry’s first medal. He claims that the fingernail scrape claim “was shown to be blatantly false.” There’s nothing blatant about it. It is a legitimate question. I think it’s pithy and not worth our time… but hardly blatantly false.
Somersby then goes on to berate Maurine Dowd. I’m no fan of Dowd, but what is Somersby’s complaint? That she uses rhetoric?! Shocking.
Somersby continues to rail against the media, justifiably I might add. Then he loses himself in the opinions of Woodward and Schweizer about a supposed “holy war.” He’s entitled to it… but it’s no different than what Dowd and Wilogren do. He adds opinion to opinion, spins it his way and then complains when others do the same.
see my blog to continue this pointless dialogue… :)
Everybody go to Ricky Vandal’s site. The guy may be certifiable.
Ricky, go play with your My Little Pony collection and quit bothering the guests.
Justin, putting your fingers in your ears and saying nonny-nonny isn’t an argument. We’ve all seen it before many times. You want “Contradiction” — it’s down the hall. This is “Argument” here.
I haven’t decided if Mr. Vandal is certifiable or just a very bored performance artist. Could be he’s both.
I’ve been trying to send this e-mail to Kaus, but my @#%! e-mail program won’t send it for some reason. If anyone wants to cut and paste and send it for me, I’d be much obliged. Anyway, here is is:
From: Sage in Hollywood
To: mickey_kaus@msn.com
Subject: Dude, quit the nitpicking
Mr. Kaus,
Do you actually take yourself seriously? Do you ever step back from your anti-Kerry blog and look at the big picture? You take a single blustery comment from a 27-year-old war protestor, a guy who has been targeted by Nixon’s secret police, and you blow it up into a huge character issue thirty years later. WTF??? Who CARES if they were ribbons or medals? John Kerry threw his ribbons over the fence, he threw some medals that other veterans asked him to throw, and yeah, maybe he took a macho stance on a TV interview. Big fucking deal!!! Maybe he didn’t want to admit that he didn’t have his other medals with him, because then the reporter would have questioned his resolve. He never said straight up that he threw the stars or the Purple Hearts, he just let the reporter believe what he wanted to believe. Protester types do that all the time when trying to get their point across. He’s not gonna shoot the movement in the foot by saying “No, I wanted to keep my best medals.”
If you spent as much time nitpicking George W. Bush’s character flaws, your brain would explode from the sheer input overload. Why not write a blog about W.’s drunk driving? Hey, he could have killed somebody! Thousands die every year from drunk driving. How about W.’s challenge to go mano-a-mano with his father? If W. is so tough, why didn’t he go “mano-a-mano” with the Viet Cong like John Kerry? Why not blog about W.’s disappearance from the Air National Guard. That’s not a matter of ribbons vs. medals, that’s a matter of FAILURE TO APPEAR for MILITARY SERVICE. In my mind, Kerry’s indiscretions aren’t even close. And it doesn’t end there. W.’s stinky business deals over the years, his mocking of death row inmate Karla Fay Tucker, his use of surrogates to impugn the sanity and patriotism of political rivals…..I just can’t believe you take yourself seriously with these petty — yes, PETTY — John Kerry attacks.
And hey — while we’re at it, let’s talk about things that happened in the last four years. Yeah, Kerry failed to take credit for his wife’s SUV. Bush failed to take credit for misleading the nation into WAR. Kerry said he voted for the $87 billion before he voted against it (the truth, even if clumsily told). Bush said “We’ve found the weapons of mass destruction” (a lie, plain and simple). Bush’s campaign has said that Kerry voted to raise taxes 350 times, a number that was totally debunked by your pal Michael Kinsley. Bush pretended to Bob Woodward that he was reluctant to go to war with Iraq, when in “Bush at War” he had Iraq on his hitlist the first weekend after 9/11. Bush wasn’t reluctant at all, nor was he skeptical of the shaky WMD evidence. If he was skeptical, wouldn’t he be angry now that the evidence turned out to be false? Wouldn’t he fire George Tenet for claiming it was a “slam dunk”, if Bush was some champion of truth? It’s all b.s. Now that the truth is out for everyone to see (nod to David Kay), Bush is still peddling the same old lies about Saddam Hussein being a threat to America. Saddam wasn’t a threat to anyone except Shiites and Kurds in Iraq.
One of my high school friends, a Marine, died in Fallujah on April 8th. For what? WMD? No. Fighting al-Qaeda? No. Spreading democracy? Is that the current rationale? Who would have approved this war if that was the goal? Does America want to be responsible for creating democracies at the point of a gun? If so, there’s a lot of countries yet to occupy. But if we implement democracy as poorly as Bush has done in Afghanistan and Iraq, all that blood and treasure will be wasted on a failed mission.
Why aren’t we taking on real threats (Iran, North Korea, Al Qaeda) if Bush is such a tough cowboy? The guy is a total faker, a chump, and it’s too bad people like you can’t see it. You can call John Kerry a pompous liberal all you want, but the truth is he killed twenty men in Vietnam. He’s got real guts, not fake bluster like this short-sighted slug we have in the White House. Go ahead and predict buyer’s remorse by Democrats all you want. I predict buyer’s remorse by the American people, once they see that Bush has no clothes. If only there weren’t mealy-mouthed nitpickers like you peddling the moronic RNC spin.
Sincerely,
Sage V.H.
Hollywood, CA
Jon R. Koppenhoefer writes:
”. . . read . . . about atrocities committed by American soldiers in Vietnam. . . . Maybe John Kerry didn’t commit them, maybe his mates didn’t either, but by God somebody sure did.”
I think it was Bob Kerrey and his mates.
The double standard for Bush and Kerry reveals the liberal bias of the media — reporters and pundits believe liberal Democrats to be superior human beings and so hold them up to a higher standard than the “Re-thug-licans” or whatever we’re supposed to call them. Of course Republican presidents lie to us about an unnecessary and immoral war — the public would have to be a bunch of idiots not to just assume that — but when a Democrat lies about his sex life, or his medals, or whatever other minor point Democrats lie about, it’s a big deal. It’s like, you expect Saddam Hussein to kill people, but if Billy Graham accidentally bumps into someone and fails to say he’s sorry, that’s news.
I personally agree with conservatives that this pernicious liberal bias is completely unfair.
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