Or compare the brouhaha over I. Lewis Libby to the reaction to Sandy Berger’s destroying those classified documents he swiped from the National Archives. The way the media sharks are circling Mr. Libby, you’d think he’d sold nuclear secrets to North Korea. Mr. Berger, on the other hand, who should be serving a long sentence at Leavenworth, received a slap on the wrist which essentially ensures that for the next three years he better not even think about shoving classified papers down his pants. And nobody in the major media raised a stink about his getting away with the equivalent of a parking ticket.
Something else that politicians on the left get away with is the pretence that they’re just a bunch of regular guys and gals representing average Americans. Whenever I hear one of these millionaires trying to pass himself off as an average Joe, I’m reminded that some years ago, when sponsors fell under the spell of demographics and decided they wanted to target only a specific segment of the population, the TV networks naturally followed suit. Then, in order to program shows aimed at the young urban audience that Madison Avenue hankered after, the networks all hired young urbanites to fill the executive suites. So, if the Democratic party is truly dedicated to representing the poor and the downtrodden, how is it that their leadership, both inside and outside the Beltway, is composed entirely of fat cats like Kennedy, Boxer, Dean, Feinstein, the Clintons, the Kerrys, George Soros, and Michael Moore? And why doesn’t Senator Schumer, otherwise known as the mouth without a brain attached, start the ball rolling by resigning and handing his job over to a nice homeless person?
But, then, you’ve probably noticed that when the liberals in politics, the media and academe, promote affirmative action programs based on race and pigmentation, it’s never their own jobs they’re anxious to hand over to blacks and Hispanics.
As you see, we have plenty of standards. It’s honesty and integrity that are, as usual, in pathetically short supply.