I recall seeing Gary Spence, that cowboy hat-wearing lawyer, on Fox News during Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky crisis. His problem was not that the President was a philanderer, or lied under oath, or that all this had led to an impeachment, but that the whole thing was so unsavory, literally dirty clothes displayed out in the open. His concept of the legal profession was clearly that it was one in which proper decorum was maintained – not to mention that said decorum helped certain elites gain key advantages.

During the Texas Air National Guard Memos flap, on Fox News they interviewed an old line network reporter, a face I recalled. His problem was not that CBS and Rather had engaged in a conspiracy to affect a U.S. Presidental election but that the focus was on the making of the news rather than the story itself. “We have to get the focus back on the story and not the reporting of it!” he whined.

It is interesting how people in certain professions have established rules to their advantage and then expect everyone else to play along. But one of the things the U.S. has been most successful at is changing the rules in warfare. Coventry was a legitimate target but Dresden was not, to hear the Nazis tell it. Nanking and Manila were just one of the things that happen in war according to the Imperial Japanese, but Hiroshima was a horrible tragedy. Well, now the rules are being changed again for a different group of elites.