Friday, October 28, 2005
Willful Ignorance
Hugh Hewitt, one of the articulate morons with whom the American right wing is rife, has an Op-Ed piece in today's NY Times (no Times Select subscription required). The headline means to grab the attention of anyone who awaits a resurgence of common sense across the political spectrum: "Why the Right Was Wrong."
Alas, Hugh's apostasy fails to produce the longed-for results with the right-is-wrong EPT test stick; he remains barren. His point is simply that the right was wrong in the way it handled the Miers nomination:
And we all know how true all that has been, even -- or especially -- looking back at just the first 4-1/2 years of The Weasel's sorry tenure.
Alas, Hugh's apostasy fails to produce the longed-for results with the right-is-wrong EPT test stick; he remains barren. His point is simply that the right was wrong in the way it handled the Miers nomination:
The right's embrace in the Miers nomination of tactics previously exclusive to the left -- exaggeration, invective, anonymous sources, an unbroken stream of new charges, television advertisements paid for by secret sources -- will make it immeasurably harder to denounce and deflect such assaults when the Democrats make them the next time around.Any fan of twisted political discourse, to say nothing of selective memory and/or historical revisionism, will thrill to the passage I've emphasized there. For it to make sense, the right must never have exaggerated anything; must never have employed invective; must always have scrupulously named sources for all charges; must never have assailed an opponent unrelentingly; must always have made a point of announcing, unambiguously, who's paid for a given TV ad.
And we all know how true all that has been, even -- or especially -- looking back at just the first 4-1/2 years of The Weasel's sorry tenure.
