re: #95 darthstar

It’s a false equivalence, but a necessary one. By saying that there are people on both sides who smear, they avoid the right-wing outrage of their special-needs poster child Breitbart getting called the racist smear artist that he is gaining legs.

Well, I’d say there definitely are some smear artists on the left, having been a target of some of them.

There are some parallels in the Dan Rather case; there’s no doubt that leftist politics drove some of the willful igorance that led to that debacle. Mary Mapes is a very open leftist, and Rather himself is a sort of Xanax leftist.

I don’t think it’s exactly equivalent to what Breitbart did, though — the race baiting aspect of it sets Breitbart apart.