In an Aug. 13 NewsBusters post, Matt Hadro expressed outrage at the New York Times’ Paul Krugman saying last year that Paul Ryan’s proposed budget “would kill people, no question.” Hadro called it “egregious” and a “disgusting liberal smear” and bashed CNN’s Gloria Borger for airing the Krugman clip in a montage while saying “nothing critical of Krugman’s outrageous remark.”
Yesterday, Fox News host Eric Bolling declared that “Obamacare literally may kill you.” By Hadro’s standard, that’s an egregious, disgusting smear, and none of his conservative co-hosts on “The Five” said anything critical about Bolling’s remark.
Will Hadro hold Bolling to the same standard as Krugman? Or will he acquiesce to the right-wing standard — established by the Media Research Center’s tacit endorsement of Rush Limbaugh’s three-day misogynistic tirade against Sandra Fluke — that conservatives don’t hold other conservatives accountable for their words? We won’t hold our breath for the former.