A look into the mind of a Republican stalwart, local style, in this morning’s Day. One Frank Wolf writes to the Editor to spew venom on the Democrats, ending his screed by taking a shot at the liberal Day (you know, the paper that wanted Bill Clinton’s resignation but can’t see the problem with keeping a war criminal in the White House):
[a] request of The Day: Could it please run a lead story that provides the details of any attorney firings that occurred under the Clinton administration? I believe this would provide valuable perspective to the current situation. I am having a hard time remembering any significant coverage, but that could just be my failing memory.
Here we see a stellar example of the modern conservative mind. In all cases, blame everything on Bill Clinton, and if you get caught with your hand in the cookie assure all and sundry that you were only taking the last cookie; Bill Clinton had taken the rest, and the fact that Clinton had done it somehow justifies it.
In this particular case, Mr. Wolf is implying that the Day has a duty to justify all Bush transgressions by seeking out Clintonian precedents and drawing false equivalencies between Clinton’s acts and Bush’s crimes. In this particular case the poor Day would have a great deal of difficulty satisfying Mr. Wolf. Maybe his “failing memory” is responsible for the fact that he seems to have forgotten that Clinton’s Attorney General was Janet Reno, who was so politically motivated that she authorized the Ken Starr witchhunt in the Lewinsky affair. Like all presidents, Clinton replaced all the U.S. Attorneys at the beginning of his term. There’s no record of him having done anything like what Bush is doing now. But for folks like Mr. Wolf, facts don’t matter. Truthiness is all.
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