The best description I have heard of partisan politics (broadly defined) today -
"This whole “debate,” if we can charitably call it that, is a mess of straw men, hypocrisy, stupidity, and reflexive defenses of one’s own tribe. It has nothing to do with fairness, journalistic ethics, or the immorality of dragging the reputations of innocents through the mud in an attempt at scoring political points."
From Michael C. Moynihan's article in Reason.
Peggy Noonan had a great op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on the Shirley Sherrod mess that is well worth reading.
The whole episode was ugly and tragic, but if people will listen to Sherrod's message, maybe it wasn't a total loss.
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