AThe Sinister Signpost

Be careful who you criticize, Part Deux

This slice from Charles Krauthammer's "Clintonian fables, Obamanian myths" is what the Hardy Boy's called "A Sinister Signpost."  There is sweet irony in this audacious media use of circular logic to pillory inconvenient truth tellers. The device was more or less created to protect the Clintons from the American Spectator, and now a tool used against them. Ha-Ha. But we're, once again,  lashed  to the petard . John McCain, poor fool, doesn't stand a chance.  We don't either.  Fair warning. “ It is not just that Obama surrogate Rep. George Miller denounced the Clinton campaign for bringing up Wright when talking to superdelegates as trying to "work the low road." You expect that from a campaign. Or that Andrew Sullivan called Hillary's commenting on Wright "a new low." You expect that from Andrew Sullivan. But from the mainstream media? As National Review's Byron York has pointed out, when Clinton supporter Lanny Davis said on CNN that it is "legitimate" for her to have remarked "that she personally would not put up with somebody who says that9/11 are chickens who come home to roost" or the kind of "generic comments (Wright) made about white America," Anderson Cooper, the show's host and alleged moderator, interjected that since "we all know what the (Wright) comments were," he found it "amazing" and "funny" that Davis should "feel the need to repeat them over and over again." Davis protested, "It's appropriate." Time magazine's Joe Klein promptly smacked Davis down with "Lanny, Lanny, you're spreading the — you're spreading the poison right now," and then suggested that an "honorable person" would "stay away from this stuff." Amazing. We've gone beyond moral equivalence to moral inversion. It is now dishonorable to even make note of Wright's bigotry and ask how any man — let alone a man on the threshold of the presidency — could associate himself for 20 years with the purveyor of such hate. ”