The Rittenhouse Review is cleaning up his blogroll:
I can no longer in good conscience include on the Rittenhouse Review?s blogroll any weblog that has provided a permanent blogroll link of its own to the site known as ?Little Green Footballs? or ?LGF.?
It is with great regret and considerable lament that I have adopted this position — or been forced to adopt this position — as I am normally a passionate advocate of an author?s right to choose his associates and to establish and maintain her own chosen associations.
However, it has become painfully clear, to the extent it wasn?t already, that the hosts of LGF, while preciously coy about their own political persuasions, all too willingly and not without satisfaction have allowed their site to become a vile cesspool of racism, bigotry, prejudice, ignorance, and hate.
P.L.A. on the media’s relationship with Gore and Bush:
The recent attacks on Gore are a continuation of the media?s efforts during the 2000 campaign. The media fit everything Al Gore did or said into nice prepackaged formulas. Those formulas included that Al Gore was a liar who ?would do anything to win,? and that Al Gore did not ?know who he was? as shown by his efforts to ?reinvent himself.?
Thus, the media established consistency and truthfulness as the criteria for measuring a presidential candidate. If a candidate does not tell the truth, he or she has a character flaw that should disqualify them from the Presidency. Similarly, by the media?s criteria, the shifting of positions and ?reinventing? of oneself is a character flaw that should disqualify a person from office.
One might presume that, having established those criteria during the campaign, the media would hold President Bush to the same standards.