The Problem With Double Standards

Captain Ed has a post up that talks about double standards in the press and in diplomacy. The absurdities are very evident when pulled together as Ed has done.

USA Today actually avoids a common double standard used by the press in this war. They refer to the dead as "people" on both sides, whereas the media usually calls Lebanese dead "civilians". However, USA Today does not make note that the attacks by Hezbollah came from rockets deliberately aimed at civilian population centers conducting no offensive operations in this conflict. Do you suppose that Hezbollah is investigating the deaths of Israeli citizens, as the Israelis did after Qana, or celebrating them? And why doesn't the media report that difference?

Read the whole thing. I've been saying all along that these double standards are literally letting Hezbollah get away with murder. The few people on the left who decry Hezbollah's methods do so only half-heartedly, leaving their strongest condemnations for Israel. Again, there's that disproportionality.