Is Philip Klein's "A Study in Contrasts: NYT on Ft. Hood and Arizona Shootings" a study in shallow partisan self-deception?
Judge for yourselves – but I left the following comment on Phlip Klein’s piece at The American Spectator blog::
TokyoTom| 1.10.11 @ 12:50AM
I love the hypocrisy with which the right points out the hypocrisy of left, in order to dodge its obvious responsibility for fuelling the religious and political divisions that the right finds convenient as a way to mask their desire to control a fairly naked kleptocracy behind their small government rhetoric.
Perhaps hypocrisy is in the eye of the beholder, Philip, but it doesn’t seem so hard to distinguish these cases: in the first the NYT is seeking to keep fears of “Islamofascists” from running out of control, and in the second is drawing attention to the political polarization and hatred that are clearly on the rise.
One can disagree with the policies favored by the NYT and the left (like gun control) yet still recognize that at least the left deserves to be taken seriously, unlike you.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind appears to t\e the Right’s political strategy. Sadly, it’s one that heightens distrust and not only makes the country even less governable, it also undermines the basis for private cooperation. The upside, of course, is that it makes it easy to mask kleptocracy.
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