I’ll admit that I was a little caustic in my initial response to Haggard’s plight, but for a host of very personal reasons I find the entire affair enraging. Fortunately cooler, more nuanced views can be found here and here.
In my Saturday posting I referred to David Frum’s NRO piece on Haggard. It seems I wasn’t the only one who found it both nauseating and revealing. Digby’s take on it is, as usual, nail on head;
"I have long written that the right has retired the concept of hypocrisy. But until I read this piece by David Frum over at alicublog I didn't realize that they had actually formulated a moral philosophy to justify it. It is truly astonishing ... Frum and his fellow neo-cons and faith-based robots have spent the last few years mangling the discourse with so much hypocrisy, so many outright lies and twisted moral reasoning that they may have permanently built an alternate universe that they can turn to whenever the need arises."
I’ve said my piece regarding Haggard for the time being. Given everything going on right now I think it’s time to move on.
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