Scott Horton writes about here:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90005996

It is fascinating to watch justifications ‘proving’ that, if my guy does something, it is perfectly fine, but if your guy does exactly the same thing, it is horrible and unacceptable.

Deficit spending is bad if it is to extricate us from a profound economic disaster but it is good if it funds wars or gives tax breaks to the very richest of us. Torture, rendition, removal of habeas corpus, limitless lockups are bad if you do it and perfectly acceptable if I do.

Big government is good if I’m in power, horrible if not. Bringing automatic weapons to a meeting is perfectly fine wherever your guy is, but never for one of my guy’s meetings, most especially not if you are a Muslim or a black militant.

Mine is enhanced interrogation or bending the rules, yours is torture.

Here is a letter I got from a right-wing friend yesterday:

An opportunity to vote your opinion, whichever way….

If you haven't heard this, the White House is accusing Fox News of not being a legitimate source of news, calling them biased, etc. They have tried to block Fox reporters from news conferences, etc., NPR has put a survey online for us to voice our opinion.

If Fox loses this poll you can bet Obama will mention it as support for his attack on Fox.

Let's show them how we feel about honest conservative news reporting.

To vote log onto:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/in_white_house_vs_fox_news_war.html

Then ... forward this to everybody !

So, right now the vote is :1,543,495 votes that Fox is objective and 228,970 votes that it is not.

I voted 2 times, just to see whether it is fixed or not - and it is.

Therefore, we get 86% saying Fox is just fine and 13% saying otherwise (1% says it is a tossup).

Therefore, the liberal NPR has a vote and it is overwhelmingly saying that Fox is not a propaganda outlet but a valid objective news organization. So it must be true.

The Washington Post is left wing. NPR is left wing. NBC News is leftwing. Fox news is just fine, virtually our only objective news organization.

God help us all!

We were outraged by the falshoods and idiocy of Pravda in the old USSR. Now we have our own Pravda and it is every bit is objective and truthful as the old one was.

and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Abe Lincoln

Guess who gets fooled all of the time.

and wondering whether he really believed what he was writing or, much like a parent talking to a gullible child about Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy, tells us what he thinks will be good for us to hear.

When one of the creatures of the Carlson, Malkin, Beck and Limbaugh ilk slither out of wherever they slink to in order to revivify, and pronounce some ever more astonishing drivel to their credulous lackeys, I always wonder whether they actually believe what they are saying or not.

I do know that these people would go from the heights of conservative Royalty to the bottom of the secretarial pool if they ever chose to tell the truth, but I always wonder whether it is an astounding lack of intelligence that precludes them from any capacity for understanding even the semblance of truth, so that they actually believe what they are saying, or whether their pursuit of the almighty dollar forces them to continuously act as a lickspittle to their fabulously wealthy masters who are truly running this country into the ground.

It is that simple.

For Who the Bell Tolls.