Originally Posted By DlandDug >>It is SOP for modern conservatives to not read whole stories but only pick out facts that they think confirms their point of view. Many modern liberals do it, too, but not as much.<< There is an interesting op/ed piece in the LA Times this morning on this very subject. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg5oct05" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/news/op inion/la-oe-goldberg5oct05</a>,0,2199618.column?coll=la-opinion-center EXCERPT: >>Now, let me be clear. I carry no water for the House GOP. Less than a month ago, in these very pages, I wrote that I thought it would probably be a good thing if the Republicans lost the House. So, I'm hardly inclined to rally to their flag because of their handling of this Foley mess. But let me make a prediction: Despite the Crucible-like moral panic sweeping Washington right now, this will backfire on Democrats, liberals and the gay left. Self-described progressives are great at whipping up a moral frenzy when it serves their purposes, and hilariously indignant when Moral Majority types return fire in kind. Remember the national bout of St. Vitus' dance over sexual harassment in the late 1980s and early 1990s? Liberals made sexual harassment their signature issue, rending their clothes and gnashing their teeth over Sens. John Tower and Bob Packwood and Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, among others. The puritanical zeal of these inquisitions cannot be exaggerated. And then came Bill Clinton, who was, by any fair measure, a worse womanizer than Thomas or the rest of them. The Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit led, inexorably, to revelations of alleged rape and scandalous behavior with an intern. Forced to choose between power and principle, liberals and feminists held an impromptu fire sale on principles.<< I am inclined to hold the view that moral idignation is cyclical, based largely on who is offending the morals of whom. In this situation, though, there are kids at stake. Too bad it has largely turned into just another partisan free-for-all.
