False Equivalence

I just watched this clip of the Rachel Maddow show. It made me realize that there is a particular tack the Republicans have not been going with in trying to draw equivalence between the Obama campaign's attacks on McCain and the McCain campaign being race baiting sleaze bags. Specifically: they have not taken the (slightly more valid) line that Obama is being ageist. Certainly all the times that the Obama campaign has called McCain "confused" has to count for something in this regard, as that is a pretty loaded word.

I'm not saying it's as bad as what McCain is doing - I do not presume false equivalencies like that. McCain, Palin, and all their cronies are being thoroughly vile, and know just what they're doing when they mention a brown person's name in the same sentence as "terrorist," especially when that brown person has a funny/scary name and says words they've never heard like "arugala."

But, it is certainly a more valid attack than comparing McCain insinuating treason to Obama insinuating (with much better evidence, no less) some amount of political corruption, to say nothing of comparing it to Rachel Maddow being sarcastic on her TV show.

Of course, McCain himself has taken to simply making shit up.


(thanks to Sadly, No!!)

As a side note, when do you think the words "Barack" and "Obama" will be added to standard spell check dictionaries?