Too often conservatives are dumbstruck by how absolutely brazen those on the left can be when manipulating public opinion. If you asked me a week ago whether or not the current story of the eight firings could be reported without mentioning the 93 firings by the previous administration, I would have said the very thought is absurd.

Conservatives/Republicans need to realize that they cannot depend on the public, which includes many who get their news from the late night comics, to remember the details of something that happened fourteen years ago which was not reported as a sinister crime, as the current case has been. They certainly cannot rely on liberal journalists to report the news accurately and in context if their alternative option is to manufacture a scandal that could hurt the Bush administration.

One thing that really bothered me about Bill Clinton, from his very first press conference as President, was that he constantly blamed his political opponents for everything. He reminded me of a child who always points a finger at someone else, too immature to take responsibility for his own actions. Many on the right side of the aisle are too reluctant to point out their opponents’ weaknesses and particularly their hypocrisy.

As much as Clinton’s propensity to blame others annoyed me, it did work for him politically. Maybe conservatives should take a page from the Clinton playbook and use every opportunity they appear on network news programs to more forcefully put forward the facts the liberal media wants to ignore -- including pointing out their opponents’ hypocrisy. If that means using every network television interview to call journalists out for their misleading reporting, and results in fewer invitations to appear, then so be it. It is way past time to hold the mainstream media to account for their deceptive and just plain shoddy reporting and time to stop assisting them in their fraud.

In the first paragraph I asked, “How is it so many in the mainstream media think they can get away with deceiving their audience by ignoring the 1993 firings of 93 U.S. Attorneys by Bill Clinton?” The answer is simple – they think they will get away with that kind of reporting because they always have.