Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Moral equivalence
Accidentally happening on the NBC Nightly News this evening, I saw Brian Williams say, without any apparent sense of irony...
"In Iraq tonight, two United States military personnel have been detained on charges of kicking and shoving a detainee. Also in Iraq, three U.S. personnel were killed by a roadside bomb. In other news tonight..."
"In Iraq tonight, two United States military personnel have been detained on charges of kicking and shoving a detainee. Also in Iraq, three U.S. personnel were killed by a roadside bomb. In other news tonight..."