Thank you, Wayne Madsen! Madsen's commentary in Online Journal suggests that liberals ask a number of embarrassing questions concerning right wing leaders' hypocrisy about the so-called morality they're always screaming about. Drunk driving, compulsive gambling, gay sex, adultery, drug addiction--all things the right wing condems--are favorite activities of several of their leaders.

I have pointed this out before, only not as exhaustively as Madsen. Of course, it isn't just drinking, drugging, gambling and soliciting that highlight the hypocrisy of Republican "moral" leaders. There is also insider trading, lying under oath, committing sexual assault, blowing up a country under false pretenses--things like that.

The news media is committed to protecting the Bush administration and all who sail with them. The American people want so badly to have a "manly, Godly leader" that they would accept an ax murderer (actually, an ax murderer wouldn't have killed as many people as Bush) as their alleged head of state.

Madsen is right: The questions must be screamed over and over until they are answered. But even then, we are stuck with the same news media and the same national quest for ignorance.