http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=9219

LetÂ’s compare:
– When a 12 year old kid had the nerve to state that he benefited from a
government program and thinks other kids should too, a massive orgy of
‘Truth detecting’ took place. Counters were examined. Houses were
visited. Property records were scrutinized. Statements were parsed.

– When a private in the army wrote some tales with a few anecdotes about
what he had experienced in the war in Iraq, and a few disagreed, no
grain of sand was left unturned. Scale models of armored vehicles were
built. Experts were called, emailed, and interrogated. Myspace accounts
were looked up. Entire fields of Cray Supercomputers had to be brought
online just to handle all the “debunking” and commentary from the
wingnuts.

But now, a Republican front-runner FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT has
clearly played fast and loose with the publicÂ’s money to hide/finance
his extramarital dalliances, and the truth detectors on the right are
silent. When an NRO columnist admits straight-up to making ***** up to
radically overstate a military threat to a key ally, perhaps to agitate
for American military involvement, our fact-checkers snooze. The sum
total of the response can be summed up as a giant yawn.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=9219

Let’s compare:
– When a 12 year old kid had the nerve to state that he benefited from
a government program and thinks other kids should too, a massive orgy
of ‘Truth detecting’ took place. Counters were examined. Houses were
visited. Property records were scrutinized. Statements were parsed.

– When a private in the army wrote some tales with a few anecdotes
about what he had experienced in the war in Iraq, and a few disagreed,
no grain of sand was left unturned. Scale models of armored vehicles
were built. Experts were called, emailed, and interrogated. Myspace
accounts were looked up. Entire fields of Cray Supercomputers had to
be brought online just to handle all the “debunking” and commentary
from the wingnuts.

But now, a Republican front-runner FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT has
clearly played fast and loose with the public’s money to hide/finance
his extramarital dalliances, and the truth detectors on the right are
silent. When an NRO columnist admits straight-up to making ***** up to
radically overstate a military threat to a key ally, perhaps to
agitate for American military involvement, our fact-checkers snooze.
The sum total of the response can be summed up as a giant yawn.