What We've Come To...

Several news programs today were aghast as they reported that MoveOn.Org had the nerve to allow a user-submitted movie to its "Bush in 30 seconds" ad competition (one which likened Mr. Bush to Hitler) to be on its site and viewable to those who chose to review the ads being considered for said competition. GOP folks are joining with the Simon Wiesenthal Center - that must be a first - to demand every Democratic candidate put MoveOn.Org down because of it.

Funny, but when this discussion was occurring - Wolf Blitzer's show was one of them - none mentioned this tasteless New York Post column likening Howard Dean and his followers to the Hitler brownshirts.

Moveon.org does an admirable job, I think. It would have been inappropriate for them to censor themselves what they were asking their public to review and rate. They didn't endorse the ad which linked Bush to Hitler. The same cannot be said of The New York Post in choosing today's opinion columnist where The Post made an active editorial decision by running it.

If people have the nerve to dish it, they need to have the skin to accept some of the splatter-back.