This evening I watched the Friday night edition of The News Hour with Jim Lehr, as I often do. The liberal line tonight, which they market with vigor, is that McCain is lying in his TV ads.
The News Hour's "house conservative," David Brooks of The New York Times, pointed out that Obama has also been less-than-scrupulous with the truth in his TV ads, and he gave examples. Brooks' point was that "everybody does it" and to paraphrase him, "politics ain't beanbag."
Nobody argued with Brooks but it is also true that nobody agreed with him. In fact, his assertion that Obama also exaggerates and lies was treated like polite society treats a belch or other crudity. That is, if we all pretend it didn't happen, then we don't have to deal with it.
PBS gave Bill Buckley a programmatic home for many years; a lonely outpost of conservative sanity in a sea of liberal party line. That was then; today PBS is all liberal all the time, the anti-Fox and proud of it.
