Lying With Impunity By: shep

by shep

Greg Sargent talks about Paul Krugman’s recent call out of the press to mention the fact that Rudy Giuliani has a bad habit of lying dissembling and wonders why the press seems so reluctant to do so when it is always oh so ready to trot out the latest GOP smear of Democrats:

Indeed. As this blog has been noting regularly, in the case of Dem candidates, your pundits will cheerfully springboard off the most trivial of anecdotes -- and in some cases, things that never happened at all -- to reach sweeping judgments about Dems' character deficits. But when it comes to Republican candidates, there is, with a few exceptions, a deep-seated reluctance to doing something so crude and impolite. This enormous double standard has been plainly obvious for years and years now. Yet you'd be hard-pressed to get anyone in the media to admit this. The denial about it runs too deep.

These days, it’s rare to hear a Republican open his mouth and not have a lie come tumbling out. For a typical Bush speech, I have to take off my shoes to count all of the lies, mischaracterizations and obfuscations (come on, we all have to find some way to get through a Bush speech and I figure this one beats drinking rat poison).

So what is it, MSM? Can you no longer discern the truth from an outright falsehood? Do you lurve you some big strong daddy Republicans? Do you just hate Democrats? Has this hypocrisy gone on so long and been so horrifically tragic for the nation that you can’t face your own duplicity and responsibility?

Do tell.

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