I think it is. Of course I was influenced by my older daughter. When she was four or so we used to babysit the children of friends. One day when we had several over I noticed that Bethany and her friend JK were sitting on the couch throwing little rubber balls at the opposite wall. I told them at least once to stop, and when I saw them doing it again I went into the living room. JK had just thrown his ball, and he froze in apparent terror. Bethany quickly dropped hers and said "JK was throwing balls inside."

I let him off with a warning, but made her sit in the corner for awhile, then tried to explain to her that tacitly lying is still lying. Accusing him of doing it was implying that she didn't, which of course was a lie couched in the truth.

That's how I see this. When GR said "and the dems say republicans apply labels to people :shifty: ", it was with the same idea. If I accuse you of doing something wrong, and I do it myself, I'm either trying to divert attention away from myself or trying to convince people that you are the bad guy and I'm the hero, who never does anything wrong.

But of course that's my perception, and I'm hardly an authority on these things.

Both sides engage in name calling.

It just seems lopsided at times because the side that is presently in power doesn't have as much opportunity to criticize their opponent and when they do it can easily sound hypocritical.

This, my friends, is known as "spin".

Yep it is. You've stated the blatantly obvious. I was giving an example of how this could be used for political spin. I even said that in my post.

I feel the same way.

Relax, Grasshopper. I just thought it was funny.

:O: They need to hire me as a Washington spinmeister.

"bleeding heart liberal hippie commie faggot" Yea that describes most Dems to the letter:har: Funny video though, someone should do one on the Dem party.