Lying liars and liars who write about them

  Politico, which started as a fairly even handed magazine, has a hit piece on conservatives and tea partiers. It's pretty maddening. Sometimes it behooves the healthy person to avoid this kind of writing just to keep the blood pressure down.
  Note the title: Videos a weapon in Wisconsin fight.
  It cannot pass notice that the word "weapon" is part of the so-called civility argument, not to mention the word "fight." Right away the reader is drawn to the supposed hostility of the tea partiers and "conservative activists," who are accused of what? 
  Defending themselves with videotaping proceedings at riotous union events. 
  And why? Because of the lies that are being told about their actions. 
  The entire piece paints conservatives as desperately clawing their surroundings to prove the earlier accusations about tea partiers being violent (ha!) and racist are false. 
  None of the accusations were true. That didn't matter because it didn't fit the framework the MSM was constructing to refute the tea party arguments.
  Vogel goes on to rationalize explain why the MSM refuses to cover the violent behavior of union activists toward tea partiers. Here is the rationale at Politico:

The mainstream media might be reluctant to give wider coverage to the videos and photos being circulated by the right because the extreme rhetoric of some union supporters isn’t being echoed by high-profile liberals, suggested Mark Crispin Miller, a media studies professor at New York University.

“There’s a difference between grass-roots anger and profanity, on the one hand, and extremely prominent public figures making violent remarks on the other,” he said. “Most of the Democratic criticism of inflammatory speech was aimed at prominent public figures in the Republican Party or the right-wing media. Sarah Palin was the one who urged people to reload. Glenn Beck has made several incendiary remarks.” 

  Apparently none of the liberal union activist leaders have made inflammatory remarks. 
  Apparently Beck and Palin are tea party leaders, particularly during the health care debate. 
  I don't remember it that way, somehow. 
  I remember a rising up of people spontaneously across the nation in response to a government grab at health care.
  It's pretty remarkable that, not only will liberals refuse to cover what's really going on, but when they cover conservatives' viewpoints, they have to rationalize why liberals won't cover the issues fairly as part of the non-argument.
  As Amanda Carpenter tweeted, "It is odd how all the tape of the union, let's say incivility, isn't the story. The story is about the conservatives who tape it!"
  Whew.
  Talk about cognitive dissonance.