I know what word should be used to describe this

So let me get this straight. Republicans are so concerned at the state of the economy that they won't, nay can't, allow jobless benefits to be continued because of the damage to the deficit, but somehow are OK with extending tax cuts that contribute $2.2 TRILLION dollars to the federal deficit because... why again?


How are Democrats not making more of this? This is the kind of hypocrisy that is absolute gold in an election year, if only to sow the seed of "they can't make up their minds if they're for rich people or against the jobless."

This kind of dreck just really cannot go on. I'm not going to listen to another Republican who is supposedly deathly afraid of the deficit until they admit that it's OK to deficit spend and fund tax cuts instead of jobless benefits. Let's at least be honest about what's going on here.

It's been itching at me for a while now

But it finally bubbled to the surface. Ignoring the dreck that's surrounding the incident itself, what's bothering most about the USDA racism affair is that everyone is giving Breitbart a free pass because he's an 'activist'. It's almost like "you should have known better" is the defence that's being offered, rather than "it should never have been put up in the first place".

I don't disagree for a moment that more vetting of the supposed incident should have been done, and SecAg over-reacted, but putting that to one side: where is the outrage that a blatant lie created from an out-of-context quote allows Breitbart any form of credibility? Why should any news organization that have any interest in its credibility even give him the time of day, let alone time in the news cycle?

When does the line of 'activist' get turned into 'smear merchant' or 'muck raker'?