Monday, August 5, 2013

Reince Priebus says the GOP has a lock on hypocrisy. Actually points to false equivalence.

RNC chair Reince Priebus sent out this letter to CNN and NBC, excoriating their decision to move forward with separate documentaries on the former First Lady, Hillary Clinton.  I had to laugh though, when Priebus claimed exclusivity on hypocrisy:
"Liberals complained noisily when Citizens United sought to air a pay-per-view documentary on Hillary Clinton prior to the 2008 election, and yet they're conspicuously silent now that a major news network will launch a documentary of its own."
To paraphrase the RNC chair, "It's okay if we do it, but you can't do it, too."

But of course, it's all false equivalence -- not that you'd expect anything less from a political mouthpiece.

For the record, the objection over Citizens United was that a conservatively-biased outlet was releasing a fake documentary during a period (30 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election) that the McCain-Feingold Act had set up.  These two Clinton documentaries are set for release in 2014, way before any primary or general election for the White House.

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