How can anybody take the moral highground in Smeargate?

It goes without saying, McBride and Draper are deplorable. Gordon Brown’s government have clearly followed the route of vicious desperation, like a cornered animal they’ve done all they are capable of doing: swipe the claws with futility.

But, whilst I value the fact that politicians are losing barriers to hide behind, am I the only person who thinks there is the most pungent element of pot-kettle-black in people like Guido and Tory Bear wagging their fingers at the Labour smear machine? Guido’s website boasts a backbone of personal insults, irrelevant smears and rumours that aren’t (and apparently don’t need to be) substantiated about both politicians and their relatives. How is that any different from what McBride and Draper were doing?

Apparently the one distinguishing factor is that the former are bloggers and the latter are politicians. That makes it OK then.

Yes, blog all you like and say what you want, that is of course your right. But the fact that you’re not elected and that you’re not in government is most certainly not absolution from a charge of complete hypocrisy.

Tags: bloggers, damien mcbride, derek draper, smear scandal