Blogged by Brad from St. Louis…<\/i><\/p>\n
<\/span>Golly, there sure are a lot of Right Wingers out there using Bill Clinton’s pardons as reason to say that it’s okay that Bush has commuted four felony convictions of the lying covert CIA-operative outer Scooter Libby.<\/p>\n “Clinton did the same thing when he pardoned Marc Rich and so many others,” proclaim the Neo-Apologists.<\/p>\n “Where were you when Clinton committed perjury?” they ask (failing to note that he was never actually convicted<\/em> of a crime, and, in either case, was said to have lied about a sexual matter in a civil case, versus a matter of national security in a criminal case).<\/p>\n In either case, we wonder when one of our brave media anchors will ask the obvious follow-up to one of these clowns. Namely, “Does this mean you now support Bill Clinton’s use of pardons? Do you now believe that it was okay for Clinton to lie during a deposition?”<\/p>\n Seems to us they can’t have it both ways. If it was wrong for Clinton to lie during a civil suit investigation, and wrong for him to let convicted criminals off the hook with pardons, then it is wrong for Libby to lie (to a grand jury) during an criminal investigation and for Bush to let him off the hook for it.<\/p>\n The Scooter Libby Wingnut Talking Points, however, don’t seem to go that many levels deep. Perhaps that’s because the Neo-Apologists know that a well thought-out response to the Libby Debacle is not really necessary, seeing as how nobody on the teevee will likely ever bother to ask them such a seemingly obvious follow-up<\/i> question to their lock-step, sound-bite-crafted response to Bush’s commutation.<\/p>\n The 4th Estate fails again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blogged by Brad from St. Louis… Golly, there sure are a lot of Right Wingers out there using Bill Clinton’s pardons as reason to say that it’s okay that Bush has commuted four felony convictions of the lying covert CIA-operative outer Scooter Libby. “Clinton did the same thing when he pardoned Marc Rich and so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}