What is astonishing, as you point out, is the muted response of the media. Just imagine the howls of sanctimonious outrage if this stunt had been pulled by Republicans. And you are right in saying that the sanctimony and the outrage would be entirely justified. But where is it now?

There is hardly a better example on offer of the infinitely malleable principles of the bien-pensant left in the media. Another day, another instance of the rank hypocrisy of the left.