#840 Funny Attack Dogs

The biggest problem with the left today is they don’t have their own pack of attack dogs. The attack dogs of the right have been one of the most successful public relations engines of the past 20 years.
By their continual snarling and barking about the supposedly liberal media, they’ve managed to make virtually every independent reporter skittish when it comes to a story where the folks on the right have clearly done something wrong. The, ahem, “liberal” media pretty much report it and move on. Gone are the days of dogging right wing presidents like Nixon till they resign.
The “liberal” media jumped in the attack dog pack and harried left wing presidents with travel agency scandals and what not.
But similar episodes by the current administration get a pass.
Like now. The ultra-righteous dogs of the right are silent. Clearly an injustice has been done. If it had been done to them, they would be howling to high heaven like a pack of jackals.
The offense? The Justice Department, a supposedly non-political organization, in charge of, you know, law and justice and stuff, illegally hired people based on their political affiliation. You had to be a Republican to get hired in the non-partisan Justice Department.
Now if I hired using that standard, I could be sued till I was screwed to the wall. I can’t interview a potential employee and even ask him what his political leanings are without fear of major legal repercussions.
Justice Department officials were doing it all the time. An investigation finally found it all out. But Attorney General Mukasey, who actually was a political appointment, decided not to prosecute.
At this point, if there was a liberal media, the attack dogs of the left would kick in and yammer, bark, and howl on some equivalent of Fox News.
But no, nary a whimper. The most the left has are a couple of comedy shows like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. They just make us laugh, or at the very most get ironic.
Meanwhile the Attorney General defended his decision by saying, “Not every wrong or every violation of the law is a crime.” Imagine the outrage if one of Clinton’s appointees had said the same thing.
Still, it could be worse. The Justice Department officials only broke the law; they could have been lying about having sex.
America, ya gotta love it.