Ah, the Right Wing Hypocrisy

They will never quit, never slow down. All hey do is criticize. And, it's fine to criticize the other party but only if you use at least some semblance of logic. It is totally ridiculous to jump on another person who says or does exactly what you or your party said or did.

And yet, the Republicans do it continuously. Day and night, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, Fox "News" never lets up. The drumbeat of hypocrisy bangs on and on.

They've even managed to politicize swine flu. If you missed The Daily Show last night, you can watch Stewart's opening monologue online.

I've never heard of that Republican Ann Coulter wannabe, but for anybody to get on national TV (presumably Fox "News") and suggest that swine flu only happens in Democratic administrations is probably the stupidest thing any right winger could ever come up with. I don't think even Rush Limbaugh is that screwed up in the head.

Jon Stewart, of course, rips the bitch to shreds simply by stating the facts and by shining light on the hypocrisy. If the Democrats caused swine flu, he said, let's look at the Republicans, who are responsible for AIDS, SARS, Bird flu, and a host of other things he listed that happened during Republican administrations. And he set the record straight by noticing that it was in Jerry Ford's term that the last swine flu outbreak started. Facts, of course, have no influence with the Neocons.

But that's not what I wanted to rant about today. Well, it is related. By now everybody's heard all about Vice President Joe Biden's comment that he told his family not to fly on airplanes because they recycle the air and if somebody sneezes, it goes all over the plane.

This is true, of course, and it's why planes have HEPA filters, but who knows how effective they are. But that's not the point. The point here is that, naturally, the right wingers crucified Biden for stirring up panic, and on and on.

And yet, barely 24 hours later a spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control said that, yes, confined places and close contact can spread the virus. And shortly after than a spokesperson for the Ft. Worth, Texas, school system, which closed through next week, said children should not be in confined spaces and advised parents to keep them out of shopping malls, theaters, etc.

Not a single Republican that I've heard about has jumped up on Fox "News" and criticized the Ft. Worth school system for spreading panic.

As usual, if a Democrat says something, it's bad. A Republican says the same thing, it's OK. Not that the school people in Texas are necessarily Republican, but it is Texas and it is close to Dallas, so whatever they say is OK. After all, they're trying to protect families. So was Biden...but that doesn't count, right?