Robert Bennett's Fate Kills The "Both Sides Do It" Meme

I know that the mainstream media has been trying like hell to frame everything the far right GOP does as a false equivalency with the Democratic Party but even they won't be able to successfully spin away Senator Robert Bennett's defeat yesterday. In the last few decades nobody can point to a Democrat who was as reliably liberal as Bennett was reliably conservative in voting records who was ousted as an incumbent before even having the opportunity to run against an opponent in a primary. And what exactly was Bennett's great offense? One vote. The vote for the bank bailout that while hugely unpopular probably did in fact keep our banking and financial industry from totally crashing.

Unfortunately in this case rather than trying to draw a false equivalence, the MSM will just ignore it and act as if it never happened. Its sad that unless they can try to paint a story as something both sides do the media would rather just look away than actually have to report the facts. It is what it is...

Jon Stewart Hits the Haiti Responses Of Robertson, Limbaugh And.....Maddow?

I get Jon Stewart's point about not using the Haiti crisis for political gain, but comparing what Rachel Maddow did with what Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson said is the height of false equivalence in my opinion.

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GOPolitico And Their Rampant False Equivalency

I don't agree with Glenzilla in this post about whether what Joe Wilson was egregious or not, but thats about the only thing I can find a quibble with and he accurately portrays how Politico and other mainstream media outlets create a bizarro world when it comes to politics all in the name of false equivalency.

The Difference

When the left said it was irresponsible to cut taxes at a time of two wars, the right wingers said we wanted America to fail.

When the left questioned the run up to the Iraq war and the evidence of WMD, the right wingers said we wanted America to fail.

When the left spoke out against torture, the right wingers said we wanted to give aid and comfort to the enemy and we wanted America to fail.

When leaders on the left said the American economy was on shaky ground, the right wingers told us the fundamentals of the economy were strong and we wanted America to fail.


The left was proven right in every single instance and in point of fact we wanted America to succeed and we knew the path we were on would preclude us from doing so. Nobody on the left every said they wanted America fail thats just the translation that right wingers made to any criticism of Bush.

Now Rush Limbaugh says he wants everything President Obama to do to fail. That means he wants the economy to crater, he wants people to continue to lose their jobs, health insurance, and homes. And he wants America to fall further behind in the global economy to our competitors. Yet somehow in the minds of right wingers this is analagous to what the left did with Bush.

Here is the difference dumbasses. The left complained about President Bush because we wanted the country to be better off so we could all have better lives. Rush Limbaugh complains about President Obama because he wants the country to fail so that Republicans can get back into office. So as you cheer on this multimillionaire buffoon just realize that if losing YOUR job or losing YOUR house will help reinstate a Republican majority he is all for it. To put it simply Rush is not your friend.