Partly because there’s a link to my column on Google News, I’m getting swamped with email from liberals saying how dare you raise this issue when George Bush didn’t even complete his service in the National Guard and whatnot. I don’t agree with their tendentious characterizations of Bush’s service (and please: no emailss defending Bush). But even if I did, what does one have to do with the other? You can’t say the media didn’t investigate Bush’s Guard service. You can’t even say it under-covered his Guard service. So lack of coverage of Bush’s faults isn’t the issue. If the media is overdoing it with Kerry, the best you can say is that it’s Kerry’s turn to be ganged-up on.

Moreover, even if Bush’s Guard service was the scandal of the Century — that has nothing to do with whether or not Kerry’s Medalgate story is legitimate. The case against Bush is simply not the case for Kerry when it comes to this story. Make an argument in Kerry’s defense that goes beyond the “you have no right to judge” or “Bush is the devil” nonsense.