Telling the Story

Hypocrisy is rife among partisan political commentators. You do something bad, it's horrible. We do the same thing, well, it's not so bad. Commenting on the CBS News "story" about Bush's National Guard experience, Ann Coulter writes:

This isn't a lack of 'rigor' in fact-checking, as the CBS report suggests. It's a total absence of fact-checking. CBS found somebody who told the story they wanted told -- and they ran with it, wholly disregarding the facts.

Ann obviously disapproves of such behavior. Of course, replace one word and you get

It's a total absence of fact-checking. The Bush administration found somebody who told the story they wanted told -- and they ran with it, wholly disregarding the facts.

This, of course, describes the process by which the administration decided to initiate a war that has cost thousands their lives, with as yet no clear benefit to anyone. I think it is safe to say Ms. Coulter is not so bothered by this.