The Culture-War President

Salon.com’s Arianna Huffington is lashing out at the Bush administration after the congress reaction to the Janet Jackson Super Bowl breast flash in a bid to divert attention from their failures and appeal to their conservative base in an election year. She writes, “Less than two weeks after the shock and bra of the Super Bowl, Bush’s congressional cronies were already holding hearings on the matter. Compare that to the foot dragging that followed 9/11. It took 14 months — and a candlelight vigil outside the White House by the victims’ family members — before the president finally relented and the 9/11 commission was created. Now that’s indecent. For the moral relativists in the Bush administration, the definition of sin seems to depend on whether the sinner can further their political purposes. So Justin exposing Janet’s boob is a sin, but White House staffers exposing Valerie Plame is a win.” Read more.