John Leo, the right-wing columnist who specializes in critiquing "liberal media bias," often noting when others in journalism leave out small but key identifications, just wrote an argument (Albuquerque Journal, June 17) that Republican Rudolph Giuiliani is paying a political price for defying "reactionary liberalism" to save New York City.
Leo admits Giuliani is imperfect. He notes the former Mayor’s two remarriages and at least one messy divorce, for example, as well as his reputation for being thin-skinned.
But Leo omits Giuliani’s adulteries, well-publicized, when he was still Mayor, still married to Donna Hanover and carrying on with the woman who would be his next wife.
Hmmm.
Questions: Is adultery is a sin only when Democrats do it? Is leaving out small but key elements bad form only when other journalists are guilty?