By Selwyn Duke
If you listened to the mainstream media, you’d think conservatives have a monopoly on hypocrisy. If a figure has espoused traditional morality even just once at some point in the past and then falls from grace, our press will descend on him like vultures. You can be a Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy or Gerry Studds, but woe betide the Larry Craigs, Mark Foleys, and Ted Haggards of the world, for justice is mine, saith the New York Times.
Many claim this is only just, as a person’s dirt becomes especially conspicuous when he lifts high his mop and pail. Yet everyone has a standard of cleanliness; the only difference is whether he supposes it’s next to godliness or humanness, whether his focus is on purity of the soul or something else. And some Mr. Cleans just aren’t held to the same standard as others, such as those who would “feign green.”
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