All the sound and fury over the revelation that a high-level FBI official was “Deep Throat”, the informant on the inside who revealed so much to Woodward and Bernstein, has reached a level that resembles a French farce more than even your typical partisan rhetoric.

The hypocrisy of the right-wing is now at a point where it is beyond any rational belief, giving me pause to question whether our society actually deserves to survive if a significant fraction of the members of our society believe that this level of idiocy is acceptable.

I had once planned to link to the most excessive of the right-wing blathering about “Deep Throat”, but it has reached such a level that any linking is redundant.

Let’s list the hypocrisies, shall we?

1) Nixon, despite covering up a burglary of the Democratic Party Headquarters and attempting to use the FBI and other government agencies to act against his “enemies list” is a hero, but Clinton is a criminal because he lied about getting an intern to suck his cock in the Oval Office. In other words, the magnitude of the crime is irrelevant, it is the ideology of the actor that is of prime importance.

2) In accord with ideology being of prime importance rather than the magnitude of the error, Amnesty International calling the US prison at Guantanamo a “gulag” is an outrage and absurd, while calling anyone who opposes the basis of the Iraq War a “traitor” is perfectly OK.

3) Proclaiming the Democratic Party is against freedom, when it was Republicans who pushed the USA PATRIOT Act, with its secret search warrants, and the RealID Act, with its requirement that you are guilty of being a non-citizen until proven innocent by presenting a machine-readable government issued ID is also perfectly acceptable because the “right” folks are pushing these laws.

4) Crying that the Democrats are “playing politics” by using every measure available to keep certain judges from reaching the full Senate for a vote, when Republicans used even more egregious and undemocratic tactics to obstruct Clinton nominees, tactics that they made unavailable to the Democrats when the Republicans gained a majority by changing the rules is not hypocritical because the Democrats are evil.

5) Expressing outrage at the mistreatment of US prisoners in the hands of the Iraqis during the first Gulf War, but saying that anything we do to “those damn terrorists” in our custody is just fine. In other words, claiming that morality is not relative is of paramount importance, unless of course the immoral behavior is exhibited by someone acceptable to the right-wing, then that behavior is not immoral or criminal at all because it is committed in the name of a higher cause.

Hmmmm…

Do you see the farcical nature of those who doth protest too much yet?

Yes, the left-wing is just as hypocritical, but they aren’t in power now, are they?

So, who is doing the MOST damage?