The Wall Street Journal knows the real insult to democracy: Calling a liar a liar

Oh, here we go. A whole maudlin little column from the Wall Street Journal on how the thing to be outraged about, in this election, is all the mean people who are calling Mitt Romney a liar. Feel the indignity!

(Yes, everybody knows politicians running for high office would never lie about their policies. Such a thing has never happened, and could never happen, and how cynical are you, dear reader, for supposedly remembering all those times it has?)
Thrill at the arbitrary reference to fascism!



(Calling a liar out for being a liar is also common and, we must point out, the morally correct response to actual lying, an approach followed by teachers, juries, nuns, our greatest philosophers and most of the rest of the civilized planet. When I catch my child in a lie, I would not be impressed by her declaring that me pointing it out is just like what Hitler would have done. However, my child is also intelligent enough to recognize a non-sequiter when she sees one, which has already permanently disqualified her from working for Fox News or writing a column for the Wall Street Journal.)

read more:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/14/1143184/-The-Wall-Street-Journal-knows-the-real-insult-to-democracy-Calling-a-liar-a-liar?detail=hide