Selective Scrutiny

Kerry's real band of brothers, the mainstream press, has kept the Swift Boat Vets under the microscope for weeks now. But, leftist advocacy groups have been operating longer, spending far more money, and have been genuinely venemous. So why haven't they suffered scrutiny?

According to a Lexis-Nexis search, major U.S. newspapers, magazines and television networks filed nearly 400 stories in the past 10 days about the anti-Kerry ads put forward by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Meanwhile,

Research by The Washington Times revealed only 34 stories this month that mentioned the liberal 527 group MoveOn.org, which has been attacking Mr. Bush on television and the Internet since the spring, posting on its Web site an ad that compared the president to Adolf Hitler.
Of those 34 stories, 27 concerned MoveOn.org's new ad countering the Swift Boat veterans and accusing Mr. Bush of shirking his duty in the National Guard during the Vietnam War -- a charge that the White House refuted by releasing his military records and noting his honorable discharge.