After spending years acting like spoiled, unbehaved, or angry children, conservatives have decided that society is angry. But rather than actually act like grown ups and take responsibility and help fix the problem they helped create, they are now working to hide their role in creating the angry society.
The latest example is the new White House Press Secretary Tony Snow's complaints about comments made about him. After spending years belittling and degrading others Snow had the gall to write a column "We need a pause button for the insult industry" where he asked "Where do such passions come from?"
Gee, Tony, I don't know. Maybe from listening to you, as American Street pointed out, or your budy Rush Limbaugh, whose comparison of former Senator Tom Daschle to the devil may have inspired threats against Daschle, or Jerry Falwell's or Robert Bartley's Wall Street Journal editorial page long term crusade against President Clinton.
While one might think that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, apparently conservatives believe that by attacking, rather than admit responsibility, is the best political move.
Recently Daniel Henninger of the previously mentioned Journal's Editorial page also complained about the Internet and liberals without mentioning the Journal's or conservatives role in degrading today's political discourse.
Now it's no doubt that the Internet is a wild and uncouth place in many areas. The question is why? Could it be that after eight years of relentless and unfounded attacks on Clinton, followed by the media's War on Gore, that the public now thinks its OK to act that way? If so, isn't it a little hypocritical to complain about what one helped create?
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