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December 22, 2006

Jezebel is as Jezebel does

I have an incredibly difficult time wrapping my brain around how conservatives can so easily compartmentalize their beliefs.

Case in point: Today over at the behemothly wretched Captain's Quarter's, Captain Ed (the blowhard of the backwater blogosphere) bellows about the cred of the New York Times:

However, I cannot help but be skeptical of any protest lodged by the New York Times on matters of classified material. They have spent most of the last two years leaking protected material, during which they showed much less concern for national security than they do in Leverett's pious essay here. The programs they revealed still have been shown to break no laws and all of them had Congressional oversight, including the ranking Democrats on the appropriate committees in both the Senate and the House. In the case of the SWIFT program, they even reported that the program had broken no laws, had no apparent abuses, and had been instrumental in catching an Al-Qaeda mastermind -- but they effectively torpedoed it anyway.

Jezebel may have spent some time as a truth-teller, too, but who would have trusted her? The Gray Lady has earned the same emnity on this point, and the same amount of trust.

Yeah...cuz truth-telling is a real high priority for conservatives.

Please.

Ed is a consistent supporter of the Iraq Civil War/Occupation and generally has his lips firmly planted on the ass cheeks of the current Commander In Chief, such as he is.

Its amazing how truth matters to the likes of Ed only when its filtered through his Heritage Foundation lens. If its a media outlet, any typo is a lie worthy of a cage match.

But if its Bush, all bets are off. Excuses, obfuscation and any other required mechanism to get his boy off the hook will do.

Certainly there are lefties who will look the other way when their guys do something bad. Hell, William Jefferson couldn't have been reelected otherwise.

But its the Captain Eds of this world that have turned this kind of ostrich action into an art form.

Posted by Carla at December 22, 2006 02:24 PM