Frivolous Politics
By Thomas Sowell

With a war going on in Iraq and with Iran next door moving steadily toward a nuclear bomb that could change the course of world history in the hands of international terrorists, the question for this year's elections is not whether you or your candidate is a Democrat or a Republican but whether you are serious or frivolous.

That question also needs to be asked about the media. In these grim and foreboding times, our media have this year spent incredible amounts of time on a hunting accident involving Vice President Cheney, a bogus claim that the administration revealed Valerie Plame's identity as a C.I.A. "agent" -- actually a desk job in Virginia -- and is now going ballistic over a Congressman who sent raunchy e-mails to Congressional pages.

See Glen Greenwald for an extensive list of Sowell's serious writing on Bill and Hillary Clinton.

This is the frivolous media -- and the biased media. Republican Congressman Foley was wrong and is out on his ear. But Democrats in both Congress and the White House have gone far beyond words with a page and an intern. Yet the Democrats did not resign and Bill Clinton's perjury, obstruction of justice, and suborning of perjury by others were treated as if these were irrelevant private matters.

Bill still twists his nipples. He's probably jealous that Bill was said to be Black while his Blackness tends o be challenged. Regularly.

We know the perjury etc. only came about because Republicans pressed absurdly on irrelevant private matters. Meanwhile, Democrats aren't going on about Foley at all. And irrespective of morality, neither Democrat broke the law; it is ironic almost beyond belief that Foley championed passage of the law he will be charged with breaking, but that's the cost of hypocrisy as far as I'm concerned.