Curiouser and Curiouser

Details about Kerry's yarns keep coming in. Fox News, particularly Brit Hume, is not letting up on coverage of the Swift Boat Vets' charges. He interviewed John O'Neill on his program today. He asked tough questions, as he should, but also allowed O'Neill to answer, which other "hosts" have not. Hindrocket and The Big Trunk at Power Line blog succeeded in getting the Minneapolis Star-Tribune to publish their comments about the story, and the LA Times (to which I refuse to link because of their registration policies) has broken the blackout among major mainstream media. A lot of smaller papers rely on wire services for national and international news stories, and if Reuters, the AP and others don't cover a story, a lot of local papers don't either. Maybe those who use the L.A. Times News Service will pick this up.

The most hilarious story today was MoveOn.org's latest ad calling for Bush to stop the Swift Boat veterans ads. It's comic to see one 527 organization, uncontrolled by the Democrats, calling on the Republicans to silence another which they don't control. The right held off on these 527 ads, which were initially run by groups like MoveOn.org attacking Bush, until the FEC failed to declare them illegal under campaign finance reform, then ads started popping up attacking Kerry. We had a saying when I was a kid, "If you can't take it, don't dish it out." The open, naked hyporcrisy is astonishing. This is a classic Elsworth Toohey moment.